Latrobe Magnesium to raise $18m to progress magnesium production

Latrobe Magnesium has received firm commitments to raise $12.0 million from new and existing institutional and professional investors via an institutional placement and has announced plans for an entitlement offer to shareholders to raise another $6 million. The company, which recently produced what it called the world’s first environmentally sustainable magnesium oxide (MgO) from fly…

Latrobe Magnesium produces first oxides from fly ash

Latrobe Magnesium has commissioned the first phase of its 1,000 tonnes per annum, Stage 1 Demonstration Plant, successfully producing the world’s first environmentally sustainable magnesium oxide (MgO) from fly ash waste from brown coal power generation. This marks a significant milestone in pioneering a sustainable magnesium extraction method at an industrial scale, using the company’s…