![]() ![]() It’s like musical chairs - you don’t want to miss out,” he added. “There’s only so many seats at the table. It is driving a frenzy,” said Tom Reddicliffe, a 40-year mining veteran and executive director of GreenTech Metals, whose exploration rights in the Pilbara have buoyed its share price amid heightened deal activity. “These exciting periods don’t come around too often, these prolonged periods of demand for a commodity. ![]() The vast tracts of desert in Western Australia, which have yielded gold, nickel and iron ore to prospectors in decades past, have now become a major battleground for miners of lithium, a critical raw material for batteries as the world transitions to greener energy.Ī struggle for control of the resource has been ignited this year as multinational companies have clashed with Australian mining billionaires over a series of takeover attempts in two of the remotest parts of the state.Ī section of desert near the mining town of Kalgoorlie in the Goldfields region has become known as the “lithium corridor of power”, while merger moves in the Pilbara in the state’s north-west have triggered memories of the iron ore boom there in the 1960s and Western Australia’s nickel rush in the 1970s. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
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