More than half of the world’s identified resources of the mineral are found in South America's "lithium triangle", a region where Canada's Wealth Minerals has been acquiring assets.
The only way companies will cut costs and increase efficiency will be to embed digital technologies in every dimension of how mines are operated and managed, says Barrick Gold.
James Kwantes recently travelled to northern British Columbia to visit IDM Mining's Red Mountain property, a high-grade gold project in a region dubbed "The Golden Triangle" for its rich endowment of precious metals.