Two mining majors, one from China and the other from Australia, are fighting a pitched battle over a 15% share of the massive Manono lithium mine in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
While normally such a small ownership stake is not newsworthy but in this case, it could decide whether the mine remains part of Australia’s AVZ Minerals or is handed over to China’s Zijin Mining.
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