Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart has positioned herself as the kingmaker in Albemarle’s $4.3bn takeover bid for Liontown Resources.
Rinehart owns shares in other lithium producers such as Patriot Battery Metals and Delta Lithium , but the main focus of her investment is iron ore.
Liontown, based in Perth, owns one of the most promising early-stage lithium projects in Australia, the world’s top exporter of the metal. It has supply agreements with Tesla and Ford Motor, as well as with South Korean-based LG Energy Solution.as its seeks adding supplies of the key electric vehicle battery metal to its portfolio.
The takeover of Liontown would hand the US-based miner the Kathleen Valley lithium deposit, located 680 km north-east of Perth in Western Australia’s premier mining district. The asset is considered one of the world’s largest and highest-grade hard rock lithium deposits, with a mineral resource estimate of 156 million tonnes at 1.4% lithium oxide and 130ppm tantalum oxide., is forecast to initially produce around 500,000 tonnes a year of spodumene concentrate expanding to 700,000 tonnes annually in six years.
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