The world needs new ‘Silk Roads’, on which the traffic will be powered, and highway services enabled and delivered, by electricity generated only through renewable means and resources.
Country has also imposed fresh conditions to the miner, including the need of a plan to move its cracking and leaching facility overseas within four years of the licence renewal.
The remote Outback region of northern Australia would seem an unlikely outpost in the simmering global trade war, but the mining hot spot may help solve a critical issue for the U.S.