My guest is Stephen Biggins the Managing Director of Core Lithium. Core is developing the Finniss Lithium Project in the Northern Territory of Australia near the capital city of Darwin.

We discuss:

Their project: from metallurgy to process details and timing

Relationships with two top level lithium producers – Ganfeng and Yahua

Offtake details

The project DFS

Drilling to grow the reserve base

The benefits of developing a project in the Northern Territory

Lithium “fines” as a by product

The market: entering the “perpetual lithium deficit”

Becoming vertically integrated in the future

Project execution challenges

Building a team

ESG

Rapid fire

Episode 113 Stephen Biggins