TECHNOLOGY

On the gas

GIVEN Western Australia’s abundance of natural gas, it makes sense for miners, where possible, to tap into the fuel for power generation.

Noel Dyson
The LNG-fired power station at the Mt Marion lithium operation.

The LNG-fired power station at the Mt Marion lithium operation.

That is the approach Mineral Resources took for the Mt Marion lithium project it is running about 40km southwest of Kalgoorlie. The project is close enough to the Goldfields Gas Transmission line that...

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