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There is a fight brewing in the lithium market, after a controversial forecast from Goldman Sachs Group analysts set off a backlash among some of the industry’s most prominent experts (reports Bloomberg).

Stavely Minerals has announced a “very robust” maiden resource for the Cayley Lode discovery in Victoria (reports MiningNews).

The global commodity business can get a whole lot more expensive — and dirtier, too (reports Bloomberg).

Plus, Bellevue Gold set for juicy cashflow on low costs and 200,000oz a year, Inca gets pulses racing with some good-looking core from the NT and Josh Pitt’s $6m Traka works up its porphyry targets.

It’s not yet the hurricane forecast by Jamie Dimon but the first gusts of wind from a darkening global outlook started to buffet Australia this week, rattling investor confidence and waking interest in safe havens, including gold.

Labyrinth’s upcoming maiden JORC resource for its namesake project in Canada is looking positive as drilling continues to return high-grade gold in multiple lodes (reports Stockhead).

Liontown Resources and Tesla have formalised an offtake agreement for the Kathleen Valley lithium project in Western Australia (reports MiningNews).

Junior lithium play ESS owns the 100% owned Pioneer Dome Lithium Project north of Norseman in WA’s “lithium corridor” (reports Stockhead).

Speaking at the Resources Rising Stars Conference on Thursday, Develop Global’s Bill Beament, the driving force behind the Northern Star Resources juggernaut, said the world is currently in a “30-year bull market” for battery metals (reports Stockhead).

Pilbara Minerals says it is embarking on an incredibly impressive chapter with the lithium boom continuing despite some shocks along the way (reports Stockhead).