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“From a resources view it has been positive for the Australian economy that a lot of our major resource exports have been able to continue."

Australia’s resource and energy exports are set to hit a new record of $285 billion in 2019–20, before falling back in 2020–21.

Research and development by Rio Tinto’s Technical Development Centre in Bundoora, an outer suburb of Melbourne, Australia, is paving the way for a unique new mineral with the potential to supply a significant portion of global demand for lithium and borates.

The last thing on the minds of workers at the oldest-known mine 43,000 years ago was what their mine might become long after their tools had been put away.