Interesting article here :Why did Liontown reject the Albemarle...

1. Interesting article here :
2. Why did Liontown reject the Albemarle takeover? - Australian Mining

This sentence says it all :

Earlier this month, Albermarle president of energy storage look, Eric Norris, told AFR that the company believed China, Europe and the US could not support their electric vehicle ambitions without WA.

“We see Australia’s spodumene as being a very viable resource to support [(our)] European expansion strategy,” he said.

It seems Albermarle definitely see that their is simply not enough Lithium for the ambitious aims of Government and automakers. CXO at this stage may be too small a target for them.. Bhutan let keep growing that resource base boys.