An $800 million expansion of Talison Lithium's Greenbushes site will go ahead after Talison and Global Advanced Metals resolved a legal dispute over the plans.
Talison Lithium has confirmed it will build a third concentrator at the Greenbushes lithium mine to boost output to 1.95 million tonnes per annum, but the owner of tantalum rights at the project has again warned the expansion will be subject to an ongoing legal battle.
Global Advanced Metals has submitted a development plan to begin direct tantalum mining at Greenbushes in Western Australia's South West, as it continues legal proceedings against the company that mines lithium at the same site.
Unlisted Perth company Global Advanced Metals (GAM) has announced a $US400 million acquisition that continues the revival of the two specialist minerals businesses that emerged from the a