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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001140361-23-050970
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		3
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20231102
FILED AS OF DATE:		20231102
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20231102

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ioneer Ltd
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001896084
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MINING, QUARRYING OF NONMETALLIC MINERALS (NO FUELS) [1400]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			C3
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0630

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-41412
		FILM NUMBER:		231369894

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		140 ARTHUR STREET
		STREET 2:		SUITE 5.03, LEVEL 5
		CITY:			NORTH SYDNEY
		STATE:			C3
		ZIP:			NSW 2060
		BUSINESS PHONE:		61(2)99225800

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		STREET 1:		140 ARTHUR STREET
		STREET 2:		SUITE 5.03, LEVEL 5
		CITY:			NORTH SYDNEY
		STATE:			C3
		ZIP:			NSW 2060
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">UNITED STATES</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold;">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">Washington, D.C. 20549</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold;">FORM 6-K</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16 of the</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Securities Exchange Act of 1934</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">For the month of November 2023</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold;">ioneer Ltd</div>
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    </div>
    <div style="text-align: center;">(Translation of registrant&#8217;s name into English)</div>
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    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">Suite 5.03, Level 5, 140 Arthur Street</div>
    <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">North Sydney, NSW 2060, Australia</div>
    <div style="text-align: center;">(Address of principal executive offices)</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 36pt;">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.</div>
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    <div>The following exhibits are filed as part of this Form 6-K:</div>
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            <div><a href="ef20013938_ex99-1.htm">99.1</a></div>
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    <div>Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
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            <div>ioneer Ltd</div>
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      <div style="text-align: center; color: rgb(28, 64, 125); font-weight: bold;">Ioneer&#8217;s expanded partnership with EcoPro to bolster U.S. lithium production &#8211; further details</div>
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    <div><font style="font-weight: bold; color: #3FAEB2;">2</font><sup style="color: #3FAEB2; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;">nd</sup><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(63, 174, 178);"> November 2023</font><font style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
        &#8211; Ioneer Ltd (&#8220;Ioneer&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;) (ASX: INR, NASDAQ IONR)</font><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> refers to its announcement on 31 October 2023 about the entry into a Research and Development ("R&amp;D") Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU")
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    <div><font style="color: #000000;">Ioneer wishes to confirm that the MOU is not legally binding, but forms </font>the basis for a good faith negotiation of a legally binding contract between Ioneer and EcoPro. The parties propose to work together to
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    <div>Ioneer also provides the following additional information in respect of the material terms of the MOU:</div>
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">EcoPro will endeavour to develop a commercially feasible process for the extraction of lithium from lithium clays at Rhyolite Ridge considering location constraints provided by Ioneer.</div>
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If a commercially feasible process is developed by EcoPro, EcoPro plans to develop a commercial-scale refining plant to develop lithium clay supplied from Rhyolite Ridge and produce Battery Grade Lithium
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Subject to Ioneer's financing and contractual arrangements the lithium clay raw material would be supplied at no cost by Ioneer to EcoPro, but the profits referable to the sale of the Product produced by the
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The R&amp;D project will be managed by a jointly developed Project Committee, which will meet quarterly to evaluate progress of the project and to determine in good faith if progress justifies continuation of
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Should EcoPro develop a commercially feasible process it would be Ioneer's intent that a detailed contract regarding the long term supply of lithium clay is targeted to be signed 6 months prior to the EcoPro
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If EcoPro has made no material progress in the R&amp;D project for more than 6 months, Ioneer and EcoPro will discuss in good faith the continuation of the R&amp;D.</div>
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            <div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">EcoPro will own any intellectual property developed by EcoPro or arising from this R&amp;D project will be owned by EcoPro. However, on the earliest of: (1) EcoPro not proceeding with building a
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    <div style="text-align: justify;">Ioneer Ltd is the 100% owner of the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project located in Nevada, USA, the only known lithium-boron deposit in North America and one of only two known such deposits in the world. The
      Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) completed in 2020 confirmed Rhyolite Ridge as a world-class lithium and boron project that is expected to become a globally significant, long-life, low-cost source of lithium and boron vital to a sustainable future.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify;">In September 2021, Ioneer entered into an agreement with Sibanye-Stillwater where, following the satisfaction of conditions precedent, Sibanye-Stillwater will acquire a 50% interest in the Project, with Ioneer
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