Can brains disrupt Australia’s lithium mining brawn?
Some of the world’s biggest and smallest companies reckon technology can disrupt Australia’s lithium boom by unlocking vast new supplies and crushing prices.
″Remember the shale gas thing?” asks Peter Beaven, over a coffee on Melbourne’s Flinders Lane.
The former BHP chief financial officer was talking about one of the miner’s biggest mistakes of the modern era as a way of making a point about lithium.
Peter KerResources reporterPeter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com
