Coking coal and iron ore could be added to Australia’s critical minerals list under a definitional change hinted at by Resources Minister Madeleine King that bucks the global trend.
WA mining Rich Listers Chris Ellison and Gina Rinehart are jockeying for control of lithium projects clustered around the Goldfields region of Western Australia.
As a world leading supplier of clean energy and battery minerals such as lithium, copper and uranium, all eyes are on Australia’s key players in the development of a range of new projects locally and globally.