Consumers, communities guide mining on sustainable path

The world needs critical minerals and Australia has them, but consumers don’t want a ‘dirty’ electric car or cheap labour in their solar panels.

As the worldwide push for electrification intensifies, requirements for sustainable production are also in a race to the top.

The Global Battery Alliance, a collaboration between public and private enterprise, wants to shake up the supply change.

It is working on a traffic-light rating system that would prove an individual…