BARRY FITZGERALD

Chile's lithium nationalisation move does Liontown a favour

LIONTOWN Resources' rejection last month of US lithium giant Albemarle's A$5.5 billion takeover bid was based, partly at least, on the scarcity value of its Kathleen Valley project and its tier one location in Western Australia, writes <b>Barry FitzGerald</b>.

Barry FitzGerald
 Liontown environmental officer, Sam Chidgzey, and Anne-Louise Vague, environmental superintendent on site at Kathleen Valley lithium project

Liontown environmental officer, Sam Chidgzey, and Anne-Louise Vague, environmental superintendent on site at Kathleen Valley lithium project

If there was any doubt about the strength of that argument, it has been blown away by a good old leftist in the form of Gabriel Boric, the youngest ever president of Chile. After an earlier move to...

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