Voltore Minerals — industry reference photography mine-landscape.jpg Palabora open pit mine, South Africa, 2019. Photograph by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen. CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palabora-Open-Pit-Mine-2019.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ mining-equipment.jpg Sishen iron ore mine, Northern Cape, South Africa, 2008. Photograph by Graeme Williams, Media Club. CC BY-SA 2.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sishen_Mine_ZA_2008_A.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ spodumene.jpg Spodumene from the Hugo Mine, Black Hills, South Dakota, 2001. Photograph by Shannon Heinle, Geoscience Digital Image Library, number 401. CC0 1.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spodumene_(GeoDIL_number_-_401).jpg https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ lithium-field.jpg Open pit of the Greenbushes mine, Western Australia, January 2026. Photograph by Calistemon. CC BY-SA 4.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_pit_of_the_Greenbushes_mine,_January_2026_04.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Images were resized and compressed and are displayed at varying sizes and crops. Share-alike licences apply to the respective photographs and their adaptations.