If Wesfarmers IS interested and if is also applying itself to...

If Wesfarmers IS interested and if is also applying itself to getting sweet with Tianqi there is no need to worry


This older story from October 2017 shows Tianqi predicted the issues now beleaguering young lithium projects ;
https://thewest.com.au/business/min...urdle-hard-to-clear-tianqi-boss-ng-b88630095z

China’s biggest lithium company believes its hard-earned know-how is a major advantage.....
..some of those new sources likely to take longer than expected to hit the market, potential customers were mindful of signing up with producers able to provide reliable, quality supplies of lithium.

“If you want to plan today for the following five years ... you probably want to encourage the newcomers but you want to know your supply comes from existing players who have been specialising in it (lithium) for quite some while,” Ms Wu said.

“Don’t take us wrong, we don’t want to talk those (new) projects down,” she said.

“It’s just that Tianqi has been doing this a long time.”....

....
Ms Wu and Chengdu-based Tianqi believe that some lithium aspirants underestimate the challenge of entering the market and producing the right-quality product demanded for ion batteries. “Customers worry about sustainable, good-quality supply,” she said.

“It’s no mystery, you can dig lithium out of the ground, especially in WA, but you need to have the know-how to ensure a consistent quality.

“It’s more difficult than people would expect.”

Ms Wu said it was “definitely” going to take the emerging producers “longer to get there”.

“A lot of people have tried and failed ... and are now doing it again having hopefully learned from their past mistakes.”


I don’t know if Wesfarmers is genuinely looking at Altura, but out of curiousity, I checked an old map I found and adjusted to show locations of the Kidman processing plant and Tianqi’s in Kwinana, south of Perth.
They are not quite adjacent as I previously thought last year when I posted it on the KDR thread.
Wesfarmers kleenheat gas facility stands between them
https://www.kic.org.au/component/k2/item/download/227_f2bc6481d06db6cfcda20d95259006d7.html
FWIW here’s a thumbnail of map with Wesfarmers added in :