BARRY FITZGERALD

Tim Tams and $825M buys Rio Tinto lithium momentum

WHEN the Serbian government kiboshed Rio Tinto’s US$2.4 billion Jadar project in the country’s west many thought it could well have been the end of group’s big-time ambitions in the key battery material, writes <b>Barry FitzGerald</b>.

Barry FitzGerald
Marnie Finlayson

Marnie Finlayson

But for an outlay of $825 million and some packets of Tim Tams, the mining major's lithium ambitions were given fresh momentum when disappointment in Serbia was followed up by success in buying the Rincon...

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