Beaten-Down Lithium Still Lures Billions in Australia StrongBloomberg article:
"Against the arid, red dirt of the Australian Outback, the Mount Holland lithium mine emerges to approaching visitors as a colossal grey-tinged crater, with trucks the size of houses edging along its steep inclines.
An expanding site at the heart of the world's top lithium producing region, a $2.6 Billion operation is emblematic of the plentiful additional supply of battery material currently weighing on global prices,much of it from this neighborhood. Despite bulish long term forcasts, the metal has been languingshing near two year lows as demands fails to keep pace.