AVZ Minerals is at the centre of a mining saga that would not be out of place in a Star Wars epic. Credit: File The legal fight, (if you can call it that), over AVZ Minerals’ (ASX: AVZ) mega-lithium deposit in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) conjures up images of the whacky Cantina bar scene in Star Wars. You know, the one where all the characters have two heads or three arms or long necks, or scales on their backs or some other crazy deformity – and they all have an a

AVZ Minerals has upgraded the resource at its Manono lithium project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Credit: File AVZ Minerals has increased the resource of its Manono project in the Democratic Republic of Congo to an extraordinary 842 million tonnes at 1.61 per cent lithium oxide, representing a massive 47 per cent rise. The remarkable resource expansion came after the company generated results from a 53-hole diamond drill campaign across 15,684m along strike from known

An aerial view of waste dumps and lakes at AVZ Minerals’ Manono project. Credit: File AVZ Minerals has laid claim to having the world’s biggest hard-rock lithium deposit after pumping up the resource at its Manono play in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a whopping 574 million tonnes at 1.63 per cent lithium oxide. The eye-popping figures come on the back of the company tabling a maiden resource for its Carrière de L’Este pegmatite of 173 million tonnes at 1.58 per cent li

AVZ Minerals has gathered massive lithium-rich spodumene-bearing pegmatite intercepts from its Roche Dure deposit at its Manono project in the DRC. Credit: File AVZ has reeled in monster lithium hits from the final 36 holes of a 53-hole resource drill-out of the Roche Dure deposit at its Manono project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The latest results include an extraordinary 342m at 1.86 per cent lithium oxide and 172 parts per million tin from 208m. Other notable hits