News Articles for Liontown Resources

Liontown Resources' Kathleen Valley lithium project is on the cusp of first production, with construction more than 95 per cent complete at the northern Goldfields site.

Kathleen Valley developer Liontown Resources has secured a short-term offtake deal with a Chinese lithium refiner to sell initial volumes during the ramp-up period.

Leinster's fortunes are joined at the hip to BHP and nickel. As the company town nears its 50th anniversary, its future is more uncertain than ever.

Chalice Mining's shares have tumbled by about 19 per cent after it announced an early-stage development deal with Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation.

Liontown Resources has secured $US250 million ($A379 million) from Korea's LG Energy Solution to help fund its flagship Kathleen Valley lithium project.

GR Engineering Services has won a $71 million contract for work on delivering and commissioning of Liontown Resource's paste plant facility at its Kathleen Valley project.

Project closures and scale backs in early 2024 presented a stark contrast to the recent era of project delivery in WA.

Aspiring exploration company Premier1 Lithium has appointed Jason Froud as its managing director.

Liontown Resources continues to move closer to the first production of spodumene concentrate at its Kathleen Valley lithium project, following a positive March 2024 quarter.

Chinese state-owned companies are “exploiting” Indonesia, US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy says, amid a call for WA's battery metals miners to lead decarbonisation efforts.

Our board moves wrap includes David Southam, Kevin Tomlinson, Jardee Kininmonth, Sam Rodda, Craig Williams, Karen O'Neill, and Michael Barrett.

Liontown Resources has locked in a $550 million debt facility for its Kathleen Valley lithium venture after its previous loan package unravelled.

The US is ramping up efforts to stem China's control of the critical minerals supply chain, which a senior American diplomat on Thursday described as a global national security issue.

Kathleen Valley developer Liontown Resources has once again assured its lithium asset is on budget and on track towards production mid-2024 amid volatile market conditions.

Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss the battery metals shake out; Santos legal delay impacts; high energy prices; HBF cost cut; McCusker charity news, and a magazine preview.

Buxton Resources says it has seen intense porphyry style veining along with evidence of copper mineralisation in outcrop at its 100 per cent owned Sun Devil prospect in Arizona. The prospect is part of the larger Copper Wolf project and remains undrilled but has historic rock chips as high as 76,800 ppm copper and 93ppm molybdenum.

Jack McGinn and Mark Beyer discuss the plight of the government's FOGO recycling plans.

Liontown Resources shares drifted to 88.5 cents per share today following an update of its $760 million debt funding package for the Kathleen Valley lithium project.

US company Albemarle has appointed brokers to sell its stake in Liontown Resources, three months after Hancock Prospecting effectively blocked its $6.6 billion takeover bid.

Buxton Resources has discovered an extension to the porphyry copper-molybdenum system at its Copper Wolf project in Arizona that is not a part of the nearby JV it shares with mining giant IGO. The new “Wolverine” prospect gave up rock chip samples going as high as 14.1 per cent copper and 1160 parts per million molybdenum, suggesting the potential for a fertile porphyry system below.

Liontown Resources has been hit with legal action by an east coast-based private company in a dispute over the interpretation of a third-party royalty at its Kathleen Valley lithium project.

St George Mining has delivered what it says are “groundbreaking” clay-hosted rare earths grading up to a huge 5125ppm TREO in the company's first drilling foray into its Destiny project in Western Australia's Goldfields region. Highlights from the company's maiden 61-hole AC program at Destiny include 30m at 1885ppm TREO and 399ppm magnetic rare earth oxides (MREO) from 20m.

Kathleen Valley developer Liontown Resources has locked in a long-term port services and access agreement with the Mid West Ports Authority for its lithium project

Fortescue's former chief financial officer Ian Wells has joined the ranks of Liontown Resources as an independent non-executive director.

Western Australia's resources middle tier could be at the heart of $170 billion in GDP growth by 2040, but only if the nation acts on its critical minerals opportunities, according to PwC.

Neometals says it has discovered visible spodumene, the major hard-rock source of lithium, under ultraviolet light in historic diamond core from its Spargos exploration licence, which straddles the prospective Mt Ida fault, north/north-west of Norseman in Western Australia. No modern or older lithium assays are available, but resampling and verification work is underway on selected old core retained by the company.

Bookbuilds and Banter with Boz (aka Shaw and Partner's WA State manager Davide Bosio) draws on his years of capital-raising experience and deal-making in Perth to talk billionaires and battery metals as he laments the ultimate killer of the deal – time.

Kathleen Valley developer Liontown Resources has engaged Clean Energy Fuels Australia to supply liquified natural gas for its hybrid power station.

Kathleen Valley developer Liontown Resources has reached the halfway milestone for the construction of its flagship $951 million lithium venture.

In this podcast, Mark Beyer and Simone Grogan discuss lithium takeover battles; the interest rate outlook; local government elections; and profit results from WA's biggest companies, including ABN Group, Perron Group, Roy Hill and Wright Prospecting.

In this podcast, Mark Pownall and Simone Grogan discuss the update on Liontown; FMG's green hydrogen targets; quarterly reports; A&O merger; planning reforms and road taxes for electric vehicles.

Liontown Resources has drummed up significant equity and debt funding to get Kathleen Valley up and running, lining up a $376 million capital raising and a $760 million loan package.

Albemarle won't make a binding offer for Liontown Resources and its Kathleen Valley project after billionaire Gina Rinehart bought up nearly 20 per cent of the business.

The board of Liontown Resources has given proposed suitor Albemarle another week to complete its due diligence ahead of a proposed $6.6 billion takeover.

Hancock Prospecting has crept up the ranks of Liontown Resources' share register to own 19.9 per cent, making the mining magnate a potential kingmaker in Albemarle's proposed acquisition.

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has continued what has become a near-daily acquisition of Liontown Resources shares, advancing its stake to 18.4 per cent.

The mining billionaire has overtaken chairman Tim Goyder as Liontown Resources' biggest shareholder, spelling a potential headache for Albemarle's proposed acquisition.

In this podcast, Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss house prices; interest rates; Monadelphous buy; Tasmea IPO; infrastructure blowouts; Liontown; VGW; interesting property deals; labour market shortages and IR reform.

Hancock Prospecting's latest on-market purchase of Liontown Resources shares could take Gina Rinehart even closer to the top end of the lithium developer's register.

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting has picked another parcel of Liontown Resources shares, accompanied by a further swipe at the explorer's under-construction flagship.