How far downstream should Australia go?

摘要

A major theme of this week's Financial Review Mining Summit 2023 was how far down the value chain Australia should go. "Downstream processing has always been the holy grail," Western Australian premier Roger Cook said during the opening keynote. "But we have to be realistic that Western Australia won't have gigafactories." The federal government is due to release its long-awaited Critical Minerals Strategy later this year.