Tasmania takes control of ore stockpile after Liberty Bell Bay defaults on $20 million loan

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-29/liberty-bell-ball-loan-default-tas-to-take-ore-stockpile/106281912

6 Comments

  1. In what should surprise absolutely nobody, another Sanjeev bloody Gupta company defaulting on loans.

  2. Jealous-Hedgehog-734 on

    It shouldn’t be that surprising, all these heavy industries require cheap a constant supply of energy and with electricity so elevated currently its smothering them economically.

  3. Oh, so that’s what a manganese smelter looks like. Very interesting.

    I hope Liberty don’t have their grubby paws on any tin mining assets, that stuff’s important as hecking heck.

  4. Start a future fund and make the future fund own it and then lease it out for a 6% return every financial year with CPI increases. If the company goes bankrupt they lose the right to the lease. The fund would hold a security clean up deposit and retain such profit if the company goes bankrupt. Maybe one day Tassie will grow up and be a Norway.

  5. Right about now teh govt should probably throw a lien on the whole site until they’ve been paid.

    I doubt that’ll happen though, they’ll just roll on over like every other department does.

    Pretty sweet for the taxpayers, out $20m now, that wouldn’t look great in a hospital, school, road, etc.