Iris Metals: Ingersoll deal powers US lithium hub in Black Hills
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Iris Metals (ASX: IR1) is advancing a US-focused lithium play centred on the Black Hills of South Dakota. In this interview, Paul Sanger of The Network speaks with Matt Hartmann, Iris’s President of US Operations, about the strategic significance of the Ingersoll project acquisition and how it integrates into Iris’s hub-and-spoke model across a portfolio that already includes Beecher, Tin Mountain and Edison.
Key topics covered include: - why acquiring Ingersoll fits the timing, and how the project sits on private land to expedite permitting - what the private-land advantage means for early production, drill programmes and upcoming studies - historical mining in the Black Hills and what that implies for today’s spodumene resource potential - the role of tantalum and beryllium as complementary minerals to lithium in Iris’s portfolio - the pathway to US-sourced lithium chemicals (carbonate and hydroxide) through partnerships - near-term catalysts: drill results, maiden MREs (Tin Mountain), processing studies, and the 2026 project study across multiple pegmatites
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