Lithium miner Liontown produced roughly 28,000 dry metric tonnes of spodumene in the first eight weeks of operations from its flagship Kathleen Valley project in Western Australia, with 10,831t of 5.33% product shipped from the Port of Geraldton before the end of the September quarter. The Tony Ottaviano-led company said it banked the revenue from its inaugural sale after the end of the period.
"The world has changed, and we need to understand how that operates within that context." He said as part of Liontown's operational review, the company would scrutinise input costs, consumable costs and all contracts. Ottaviano added that the optimisation plans would not include care and maintenance – pertinent comments, perhaps, given Pilbara Minerals' decision to temporarily shutter its Ngungaju processing plant at its Pilganoora operation, announced this morning.