@Monetenmän - if you speak and understand German, it should be...

@Monetenmän - if you speak and understand German, it should be pretty clear from this interview that nothing is going to happen with that mine, even the local Lord Mayor says, that the actual mining of lithium is way in the future and lots of water will run down the river (Lavant) before that happens. It is a pretty clear explanation that this is simply a piece of ground which will eventually be turned over for a profit, but the lithium - should it ever come to actual mining - will be transported to Saudi Arabia - and Europe will never see the end product or have a profit from it.
So why would they destroy a beautiful landscape (real estate to Tony) and give all the permits (which haven't even been applied for, according to this interview) to a foreigner to make a profit?
The Austrian government was originally monumentally stupid to gift that mine to a private and local company who promptly sold it for ten million Euros to Tony Sage & Co,.
. . . and of course, he will turn it over again - as real estate - not as a mine.
Taurisk