No comeback for Greenbushes railway

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Plan to bring back the 78km of rail for spodumene transport to Bunbury binned

The rail line would have been used to carry spodumene concentrate from the Greenbushes mine to Bunbury, Kemerton and Kwinana.

The rail line would have been used to carry spodumene concentrate from the Greenbushes mine to Bunbury, Kemerton and Kwinana. | Credits: Talison Lithium

A joint Talison Lithium-Western Australian government feasibility study into recommissioning the Greenbushes-to-Bunbury rail line has found the project will not stack up. That outcome has come as little…

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