![]() ![]() The companies recently secured land in Kwinana for the facility, which would integrate a downstream nickel refinery with a plant that produces the pCAM product. IGO is working with Andrew Forrest-backed Wyloo Metals to develop an integrated battery material (IBM) facility that would produce a nickel-dominant pCAM. “At this stage, targeting gigafactories might be a bit ambitious, but I can’t see any reason why battery chemicals, pCAM or CAM can’t be competitive in Australia.” “Not only lithium, but Australia has all the composite materials to get to pCAM (precursor cathode active material) or CAM (cathode active material) refining,” he said. While MinRes and IGO are already producing lithium hydroxide from their Kemerton and Kwinana joint venture facilities in WA, Wesfarmers aims to brings its Kwinana plant online in 2025 after spodumene concentrate production commences at the Mt Holland mine in 2024.Īnd Royle believes Australia also has opportunities further downstream, including in the active materials space. “On the capex (capital expenditure) side, it’s still a bit expensive, but what we are seeing from these new lithium hydroxide refineries popping up in WA is that they can be competitive on an opex (operational expenditure) basis globally.”Īustralian companies such as Mineral Resources (MinRes), IGO and Wesfarmers are harnessing the opportunity to produce lithium hydroxide onshore. “Those energy costs will be a problem that needs to be solved moving forward. “Australia is typically focused on the dig and ship-it side of the industry, and Australian manufacturing has been offshored due to high energy costs and competition from overseas,” CRU senior consultant David Royle said. After writing a novel-length sea-based adventure, and being total and utter nerds for perfect puns, they decided that “Ship It” would be the perfect name for their partnership when decided to share their creations with the world.While the local production of battery chemicals is increasing, what are the prospects of Australia moving further downstream to active materials, cell manufacturing and even beyond?Ĭritical minerals were a key focus of the recent RIU Sydney Resources Round-up, and commodities advisory firm CRU used its keynote presentation to not only demonstrate Australia’s raw materials capability, but also the possibilities further along the battery supply chain. ![]() With romance being a focus of most of their stories, and often slow-burn romance at that, they would often find themselves excited about the character and relationship development they were writing, and instead of gushing on for hours about how great it will be when the characters finally got together, they decided to shorten their enthusiasm to the efficient but encapsulating colloquialism “I Ship It”. Just like most other authors, Liv and Jay get really excited about the characters they create. ![]() When the main story is done, they will then revise and edit each chapter to make sure the flow and perspectives are seamless. Quite often, they will each take responsibility for the dialogue and action of certain characters to ensure a consistent voice. They write almost every part of their story together, taking it in turns to write paragraphs and dialogues, almost like playing a game of ‘tag’. Liv and Jay live in different time zones, so a lot of their writing has to be squeezed in after work or on weekends. How does the co-authoring thing work on a practical level? Whether their stories take them to the perilous void of outer space, a magic filled fantasy realm, or a quaint small town in the modern day, their top priority is making a visceral world that readers can escape into. With a shared love of the fantasy and science fiction genres, among others, they delight in crafting tales full of dynamic characters and vivid romance. One story turned into two, which turned into three, and now they have written more adventures together than they can count. Liv Evans and Jay Thomas met over six years ago on an online writing forum and hit it off immediately. When not filling his off-hours with plotlines, he works as an engineer until the dream of full-time authorship is possible.Ībout Liv Evans’ and Jay Thomas’ co-authoring journey Born of his love of RPGs, his love of writing helped broaden his horizons and introduced other cultures to solidify the veracity of his historical fiction stories. Jay Thomas is an American hobbyist author that enjoys world-building and character development. Liv has published three books so far 'The Underground' (Book One of the Derivates Rising Trilogy), 'The Hub' (Book Two of the Derivates Rising Trilogy), and the standalone 'The Code of Us'. When not writing, she can be found spending time with her family, sewing, painting book edges, and learning more new crafts than she has time for. Liv Evans is an Australian Indie Author who writes dystopian, sci-fi, and fantasy - all with a hint of romance. ![]()
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