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Liontown delivers foundation for new mine

LIONTOWN Resources’ prefeasibility study shows its still-growing Kathleen Valley deposit, near Leinster in Western Australia, should emerge as a robust open-pit lithium mine, based around just-announced maiden reserves.

Liontown drilling at Kathleen Valley, near Leinster in WA

Liontown drilling at Kathleen Valley, near Leinster in WA

The reserves, 50.4 million tonnes grading 1.2% lithium for 603,600t, are within July's resource estimate of 74.9Mt at 1.3% and 140 parts per million tantalum, but the company is confident it will add more...

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