Farmers fear their ability to do basic tasks like fencing or deep ripping will become tangled in costly red tape when important new legislation designed to protect WA’s Aboriginal cultural heritage takes effect next month. The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021 was passed through State Parliament in late December in the wake of Rio Tinto’s infamous blasting of Juukan Gorge more than two years earlier.
After an extensive 10-month long due diligence process, Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Magnetite Holdings has decided to pour $4 million into LCY’s Mt Bevan JV with Hawthorn Resources (ASX:HAW) to help fund exploration for lithium and other non-iron ore minerals.“The signing of this agreement is a significant step in the development of the Mt Bevan project as it moves further towards commercialisation, LCY CEO Rakesh Gupta said. “We welcome Hancock into the project and look forward to working with them and leveraging their expertise in the area, and the development of this project.” The $108m market-capped junior is up 17% today.
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has revealed the terms of a joint venture earn-in deal that will see it partner with Indian miner NMDC to look for lithium and other critical minerals in WA’s Central Yilgarn. Under the terms of the deal, Hancock will spend up to $26 million to earn a 51 per cent stake in a new exploration joint venture at Mt Bevan, 250km north of Kalgoorlie, from Hawthorn Resources and the NMDC-backed Legacy Iron Ore. Shares in Hawthorn and Legacy jumped as much as 31 per cent when the stocks emerged from trading halts on Thursday.
Rio Tinto has expanded its hunt for lithium, buying into one of the hottest exploration regions in Canada, as Gina Rinehart also stepped up in the race for lithium assets on Thursday. Rio this week agreed to buy into a suite of tenements in the James Bay region of Quebec controlled by Canadian-listed Midland Exploration, which already has deals with BHP and Rio elsewhere in the country for base metals tenements.
Gina Rinehart is expanding into lithium after her company Hancock Prospecting signed a earn-in agreement to explore for the battery metal in Western Australia. The binding earn-in agreement with Legacy Iron Ore and Hawthorn Resources concerns exploration of non-iron minerals at the Mt Bevan project in WA, with a particular focus on lithium. The agreement will see Hancock make an initial spend of $4 million for a 7.5 per cent interest in the project. The company can then fund $22 million of Mt Bevan exploration and development for an additional 43.5 per cent stake.
The new partnership provides for Hancock — which already has its foot on the junior explorers’ magnetite deposit at Mt Bevan — to make an initial $4m investment to stake a 7.5 per cent claim in the project’s lithium, nickel and copper, with $2.4m paid to Legacy and the rest to Hawthorn. The deal allows Hancock to spend up to $22m more on further drilling, exploration and the funding of a pre-feasibility study to earn a 51 per cent share of those minerals. Hancock’s head of projects, Sanjiv Manchanda, said the pact flowed from a deepening bilateral relationship between Australia and India. “This work will draw on the significant expertise that is now being assembled at (Hancock), which has a mandate to lead the study, design, and development of a globally significant pipeline of projects,” he said.
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has revealed the terms of a joint venture earn-in deal that will see it partner with Indian miner NMDC to look for lithium and other critical minerals in WA’s Central Yilgarn. Under the terms of the deal, Hancock will spend up to $26 million to earn a 51 per cent stake in a new exploration joint venture at Mt Bevan, 250km north of Kalgoorlie, from Hawthorn Resources and the NMDC-backed Legacy Iron Ore. The Hancock deal — flagged by thewest.com.au on Wednesday — comes just two weeks after Mrs Rinehart met privately with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Australian visit.
GINA Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting could spend more than A$30 million to secure the rights to the full basket of metals at the Mt Bevan project in Western Australia, in addition to an ongoing magnetite joint venture agreement. The Mt Bevan project, 100km west of Leonora, contains 1.17 billion tonnes of magnetite grading 34.9%, but within its 165sq.km borders is the potential for battery metals. Hancock is already earning 51% of the magnetite from Legacy Iron Ore and Hawthorn Resources and has just committed to a three-stage earn in for up to 51% of all other metals, with a focus on nickel, copper and lithium.
Gina Rinehart is a step closer to owning her first lithium mine after striking a deal that could see her emerge with a majority share in operations targeted at supplying India, where she has a strong relationship with prime minister Narendra Modi. Mrs Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting will pay up to $36 million for a potential 51 per cent in the Mt Bevan project located in a part of Western Australia emerging as a lithium hotspot. Under the deal, signed by Hancock chief executive of group projects Sanjiv Manchanda in Hyderabad, most of any lithium produced at Mt Bevan will be shipped to India as it looks to boost its critical minerals supply chain.
Hancock in India deal as Japan also taps WA Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting is readying for a drilling blitz over WA’s Yilgarn minerals belt as part of a new lithium venture with India. The exploration partnership with Indian group NMDC is set to be finalised on Thursday in the miner’s home city of Hyderabad just two weeks after Mrs Rinehart met privately with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Australian visit, pictured.
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Gina Rinehart’s listed partners in a potential lithium joint venture in WA’s central Yilgarn have gone into trading halts ahead of an announcement. The Indian-backed Legacy Iron Ore and Hawthorn Resources flagged news of “a joint venture agreement on the Mt Bevan project”, 250km north of Kalgoorlie.
