CPM Group managing partner says the companies that need to find resources and develop mines today for production at the projected height of the battery metals demand from 2030 onwards are falling behind.

Global lithium production more than doubled in the last four years.

In 1977 Jacques David began his career in the battery recycling business and quickly became a pioneer in recovering nickel, cobalt and cadmium from Ni-Cd batteries.

Finniss is the first lithium mine in the Northern Territory.

Any credible prognosis shows that copper faces a structural deficit of 5-7 million tonnes starting in the next 3 or 4 years, Hudbay CFO says.