Dale Henderson (@henderson_dale on X) is the Managing Director & CEO of Pilbara Minerals. I was honored to have him join me for the 200th episode.

Topics:

Pilbara’s four strategic pillars

The wild ride for lithium (& Pilbara)

Swing supply created by 2022 pricing

The steepening cost curve

Unsustainable pricing in 2024

The coming shortage

Continuing to be nimble

Managing through volatility

The POSCO JV & other world class partners

Where Pilbara sits on the cost curve

Growth and the Latin Resources acquisition

The arrival of big balance sheets to lithium

Brazil as a lithium jurisdiction

Keeping the team motivated

Two questions from Dale

Rapid fire

Dan Blondal aka "the man with one tweet" is the CEO of Nano One (TSX: NANO / OTC: NNOMF).

Topics:

A world class suite of partners

The battery challenge

Why ex China cathode capacity matters

China's current LFP dominance

Why the west has to do LFP differently

The importance of ESS as a catalyst

"Design one - build many"

Will Japan make a battery comeback?

The importance of the DOD investment

Staying the course

Rapid fire

The majority of this episode is a presentation I made at the Panorama Minero "Lithium South America" event in Jujuy, Argentina on October 9, 2024. The presentation starts at ~ minute 23. The episode begins with a interview with Alejandro Columbo from Panorama Minero. We discuss what Panorama Minero does and how this event has grown over the last decade to global significance.

My presentation "Lithium's Bright Future" also includes a discussion of the history of the industry and how the west's failure to act early in the last decade allowed China to become the current dominant player in lithium ion batteries and EVs. Yet the past isn't necessarily prologue.