Mohan Yellishetty
Battery Metals · Iron Ore
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Mohan Yellishetty
Cleaning up Australia’s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs
Land is a scarce resource. The restoration of abandoned mines enables sustainable and dynamic use of former mining land. It opens up golden opportunities – environmental, social and economic
Mohan Yellishetty
Australia has rich deposits of critical minerals for green technology. But we are not making the most of them … yet
Battery Metals
As the transition to clean energy accelerates, we will need huge quantities of critical minerals – the minerals needed to electrify transport, build batteries, manufacture solar panels, wind turbines, consumer electronics and defence technologies. That’s where Australia can help. We have the world’s largest supply of four critical minerals: nickel, rutile, tantalum and zircon. We’re also in the top five for cobalt, lithium, copper, antimony, niobium and vanadium. Even better, many of these minerals can be produced as a side benefit of mining copper, aluminium-containing bauxite, zinc and iron ores.
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