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Coup aftershocks driving Chile's lithium miners to Australia

Albemarle’s blockbuster bid for Liontown, an emerging Australian lithium miner, has South American politics written all over it.

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The $4 billion (A$6 billion) offer from US-based Albemarle followed weeks of painful debate in Chile which today (September 11) remembers the 50th anniversary of the coup which plunged the country