I will have to disagree, I have been and had a look at the mine...

I will have to disagree, I have been and had a look at the mine and plant, from a short distance, unable to access the site, from what I saw they are indeed a well managed company, you don't take a bare patch of ground and build a fully working mine on it with all that goes with it if you are not. As for the offtake people demand will replace them if needed.
In Australia we live in a bubble of total ignorance of what is going on with the rest of the word, like the other 7 odd billion or whatever people compared with our 25 million people.
One day the lights will come on and they will probable be powered by renewable power (not with this gov in power at the moment too much dead wood)