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    International Goldfields

    January

    Ivan Vella has spent the past two years running Rio Tinto’s aluminium division from Montreal.

    IGO ‘confident’ in new CEO Vella after Rio dismissal

    IGO told the market on Monday morning the board had confidence in Ivan Vella after investigating his dismissal for handling confidential information.

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    • Elouise Fowler

    October 2023

    The Greenbushes mine is owned jointly by IGO, China’s Tianqi and Albermarle.

    Australia’s largest lithium mine flags output cut on weak China demand

    Greenbushes is part-owned by ASX-listed IGO Limited. Shares in the resources group fell 9 per cent on news it could scale back production.

    • Elouise Fowler and Peter Ker

    September 2023

    Robyn Denholm, Chairwman of Tesla

    Tesla boss urges Chalmers to give tax breaks for lithium processing

    A production tax credit of ‘less than 10 per cent’ would put Australia on the map as a global lithium hydroxide processor, Robyn Denholm says.

    • Elouise Fowler

    August 2023

    An IGO lithium hydroxide plant outside Perth.

    Lithium miner IGO claims $1.1b Greenbushes dividend

    Cashed-up miner IGO has rained money on investors thanks to hefty profits from its share of the world’s largest hard rock lithium mine.

    • Elouise Fowler
    Lithium ore

    Will the lithium price rout kill the next wave of Australian mines?

    Lithium-rich spodumene concentrate prices would need to more than halve to jeopardise the next wave of ASX-listed miners’ lithium projects.

    • Elouise Fowler, Peter Ker and Brad Thompson

    July 2023

    A lithium mine in Western Australia.

    IGO’s battery chemical plant fizzes

    Lithium and nickel miner IGO’s troubled facility casts a pall over Australia’s plans to dent China’s dominance over battery metal refining.

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    • Elouise Fowler
    An IGO lithium hydroxide plant outside Perth.

    IGO’s stricken Western Areas assets face year-long, $275m blowout

    On Monday, the miner slashed nearly $1 billion from the value of two West Australian nickel projects it acquired just last year for $1.3 billion.

    • Elouise Fowler and Brad Thompson

    May 2023

    CEO Kevin Gallagher’s Santos has been trying to win approval for the Narrabri gas project for years.

    Santos can’t decide whether to support the Voice

    Corporate leaders want to avoid playing into criticism that Indigenous recognition is an elites-led proposal not supported at the grassroots. 

    • Tom McIlroy and Angela Macdonald-Smith