The lithium price rout is testing even the truest of true believers’ faith in Australia’s miners, but few lithium babies have been thrown out with the bathwater like IGO Ltd.
Five years ago, IGO Ltd’s visionary boss Peter Bradfordput the company on to a winner. He reshaped what was a gold/zinc/copper/nickel miner into an energy storage and distribution minerals play, offloading gold and buying lithium and nickel projects, and spotting the batteries thematic way ahead of rivals.