Clock ticking on Rio Tinto's Patriot ambition

RIO Tinto boss Jakob Stausholm said in Melbourne this week that he wouldn’t mind having lithium production in Canada, writes Barry FitzGerald.

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Patriot drilling at Corvette, in Canada's hot James Bay lithium region

"But that doesn't mean that you necessarily have to home in on a single opportunity," the urbane Dane told reporters on the sidelines of a Melbourne Mining Club luncheon.