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Extraction and metallurgy are different problem domains. Vertical integration can be more profitable, but not when regulatory burden is high. What you’re seeing is an arbitrage of regulatory costs. The government is much more tolerant of ecologically hazardous in industrial processes in the Australian government. I don’t want to go into why that is, but I think most would accept that as true.

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