Crisis talks as critical minerals bust deepens Miners will push Resources Minister Madeleine King to drive reform of the way Australian critical minerals are priced at crisis talks this week, after lenders withdrew a $760 million loan to fund Western Australia’s next big lithium mine. Shares in Liontown Resources crashed almost 22 per cent on Monday after a prediction for a five-year depression in lithium prices spooked the nation’s biggest lenders to https://www.afr.com/companies/mining/liontown-loan-yanked-amid-lithium-price-slump-20240122-p5ez33