So long as you have a big shed to stop it blowing away, iron ore...

So long as you have a big shed to stop it blowing away, iron ore can be stockpiled indefinitely in its raw form.But the lithium hydroxide made by the Greenbushes owners at Kemerton and Kwinana has a comparatively short shelf life; it starts to degrade after six months.So stockpiling lithium hydroxide at a time of weaker-than-expected electric vehicle demand isn’t really a smart thing to do.The Greenbushes partners could keep mining and stockpile their excess lithium in the raw spodumene form. In fact, they’re already doing that.But they are rapidly running out of room for stockpiling.