Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s comments come days after his ministry published a critical minerals strategy that pledged to review Canada’s approval process for developing mines.
Announced at the COP15 talks on biodiversity in Montreal, the Sustainable Critical Minerals Alliance would support these standards for elements like lithium, cobalt and nickel.
BHP will help I-Pulse and its affiliate I-Rox, in which is also taking an equity position, develop technologies that can curb energy use in the mining sector.
A PwC Australia report says that increasing the in-country production of silicon is the first step for Australia to develop its own capability and capacity in the solar cell supply chain.
