Opinion
Albemarle’s emerging plant is a living example that reality is much harder than Australia’s rhetoric about more downstream processing in lithium hydroxide.
Amid the cow paddocks and gum trees 160km south of Perth, 2000 hectares of land are designated as a strategic industrial estate to support heavy industry and downstream processing.
“It’s your opportunity,” declares the large orange sign for the freeway turnoff to Kemerton Industrial Park.
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Original URL: https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/in-wa-a-lesson-in-the-tough-reality-of-processing-lithium-20240304-p5f9od
