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• 26 June 2026The 1.9-Billion-Year-Old Volcano That Left a Lithium Ghost TownHow 1.9-billion-year-old pegmatites in Western Australia's Pilbara Craton created the world's largest known tantalum deposit—and a town that rose and fell with the metal that powered the Apollo progra
• 25 June 2026The 65-Million-Year-Old Volcanic Lake That Became Australia's Biggest Lithium DepositHow 65-million-year-old volcanic activity in Western Australia's Yilgarn Craton created a lithium-rich clay deposit at Mount Marion, where ancient lakebeds concentrated rare metals from weathering gra
• 17 June 2026The Magma That Crystallised a Lithium Empire: Western Australia's Greenbushes PegmatiteHow 2.5-billion-year-old pegmatite veins in Western Australia's Greenbushes became Earth's richest hard-rock lithium deposit, recording a continent's slow dance with tectonic collision.
• 12 May 2026The Lithium That Leached: The Greenbushes PegmatiteIn Western Australia's Greenbushes, a 2.5-billion-year-old pegmatite vein—one of the world's largest lithium deposits—formed when extreme magmatic concentration left behind a rare cache of spodumene.