About us

Lithium Australia Ltd (‘the Company’) is based in Perth, Western Australia.

The Company believes sustainability equates to viability in relation to the global battery industry. What’s required are cheaper, more ethical and environmentally aware sources of battery materials, the manufacture of safer batteries at a lower cost, and more efficient and ecologically sound recycling of spent batteries.

To that end, the Company is establishing a circular battery economy (which ensures resource security) by way of its four vertically integrated business divisions.

• Lithium chemicals: energy-efficient recovery of lithium from currently discarded spodumene and mine waste via LieNA^® and SiLeach^® (both patented processing technologies) to create primary battery chemicals.
• Batteries: conversion of those primary battery chemicals to advanced cathode materials – in particular lithium ferro phosphate (‘LFP’) and lithium manganese ferro phosphate (‘LFMP’) – for lithium-ion batteries, via 100% Company-owned subsidiary VSPC.
• Recycling: safe, efficient recovery of critical minerals from end-of-life batteries, especially lithium-ion batteries, by 100% Company-owned subsidiary Envirostream, for use in the production of new lithium-ion batteries in partnership with VSPC.
• Raw materials: maintenance of free-carried interests (20-30%) in a number of joint ventures for lithium exploration, as well as for base and precious metals, plus equity interests in the various public companies that manage those joint ventures.

In summary, through research and innovation the Company has vertically integrated lithium extraction and processing, along with battery materials manufacture and recycling, in its quest for an ethical and sustainable circular battery economy and, ultimately, a net-zero world.