Rather than be a quarry for Beijing or the source of a never-ending supply of FIFO holidaymakers in Bali, Roger Cook wants to reinvent the state’s image in Asia.
Despite being a world-leading lithium producer with millions being spent each year in the search for new reserves of the key battery metal, the Western Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy (CME) says “urgent action” needs to be taken if the state is not going to fall behind its rivals.
The Burrup Peninsula in WA - home of more than one million Indigenous rock engravings up to 40,000 years old - is understood to have been nominated for World heritage listing.
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