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",{"type":717,"attrs":718,"content":720},"heading",{"level":719,"textAlign":49},4,[721],{"text":722,"type":588},"Rinehart’s entry",{"type":583,"attrs":724,"content":725},{"textAlign":49},[726],{"text":727,"type":588},"Rinehart’s company Hancock Prospecting began building a stake in Liontown last month, just days after Albemarle’s revised proposal of A$3 in cash per share was accepted by Liontown.",{"type":583,"attrs":729,"content":730},{"textAlign":49},[731],{"text":732,"type":588},"On Oct. 11 Hancock revealed it had acquired a 19.9% share in Liontown and it looked forward to having a “prominent influence in Liontown’s future.” ",{"type":583,"attrs":734,"content":735},{"textAlign":49},[736],{"text":737,"type":588},"Liontown on Thursday said it secured enough financing to advance Kathleen Valley to first production, via a debt package and an equity raising. ",{"type":583,"attrs":739,"content":740},{"textAlign":49},[741],{"text":742,"type":588},"The company said it would raise A$365 million via an institutional placement of shares at A$1.80 per share, and A$10.8 million via a placement to Liontown’s chairman, Timothy Goyder. In addition existing shareholders can participate in a share pruchase plan to raise up to a further A$45 million, it said. ",{"type":583,"attrs":744,"content":745},{"textAlign":49},[746],{"text":747,"type":588},"The company remains focused starting first production from the Kathleen Valley project in mid-2024, the company added. ","Albemarle, the world’s largest lithium producer, has withdrawn its A$6.6 billion ($4.18 billion) bid to acquire Australian lithium miner Liontown, after the Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart built a large stake in the company. US-based Albemarle cited ‘growing complexities’ linked to the deal as a reason for its decision to withdraw the company, which is developing […]",[750],{"slug":571,"name":572,"content":751},{"job_title":574,"image":752,"bio":577,"linkedin":578},{"filename":576},"\u003C!--#storyblok#{\"name\": \"article\", \"space\": \"\", \"uid\": \"0446b94e-bd10-4e10-b131-d7beccd318c4\", \"id\": \"\"}-->","article",[756,759],{"slug":757,"name":758},"critical-minerals","Critical Minerals",{"slug":760,"name":8},"lithium","private",{"id":49,"alt":763,"name":763,"focus":763,"title":763,"source":763,"filename":764,"copyright":763,"fieldtype":765,"meta_data":766,"is_external_url":51},"","https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/ef36e3e9ec/bm-liontown-resources-1.jpg","asset",{"alt":763,"title":763,"source":763,"copyright":763},"Oct 17, 2023","17th October 2023",[],[],1792773909279]