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Kwinana or bust for Tianqi and IGO

JOINT venture partners Tianqi Lithium and IGO have overcome years of delay, cost blow-outs and legal disputes to reach first production of lithium hydroxide monohydrate at the Kwinana plant.

 Kwinana plant performs

Kwinana plant performs

The major milestone also marks the first-time battery-grade lithium, or LHM, has been produced in commercial quantities in Australia. Lithium hydroxide is a lithium-based compound derived from spodumene,...

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