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Lithium News
Lithium Chile shakes up corporate profile in alignment with lithium aspirations
By: Henry Lazenby 4th January 2018 Chile-focused lithium junior Lithium Chile has revamped itself to better align its corporate image with its aspiration of becoming a go-to lithium producer in the country – the world’s largest and lowest-cost producer of the energy metal. Based in Vancouver, Lithium Chile shareholders voted in... →
Even with Trump minerals order, US miners seen trailing China
By: Reuters 23rd December 2017 Even if Donald Trump’s initiative on 'critical minerals' strengthens the US mining industry, domestic companies would still struggle to compete with low-cost Chinese competitors, according to Bloomberg Intelligence. The president signed an executive order this week to identify new US sources of... →
Lithium rookie posts dizzying gain as promoter praises stock
By: Bloomberg 21st December 2017 The electric-vehicle revolution is propelling impressive gains in commodity and equity prices around the world, few more dizzying than Liberty One Lithium. The penny stock, which has changed its name twice since 2016 and is years away from an operating mine, surged 250% in October, when both the... →
SP Angel outlines key 2018 trends as battery raw materials heat up
By: Creamer Media Reporter 21st December 2017 London-based brokerage SP Angel has outlined the key trends that characterised the basket of energy metals during 2017 and the the outlook for 2018 in its new ‘Battery Raw Material Review, Outlook – SP Angel Commodity Research Book’ published on Wednesday. The report pointed out that the... →
Savannah Resources declarise maiden estimate at Mina do Barroso
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 18th December 2017 Aim-listed Savannah Resources has declared a maiden mineral resource estimate of 3.2-million tonnes at 1% lithium dioxide (Li₂O) for its Reservatorio deposit, at the Mina do Barroso lithium project, in northern Portugal. Reservatorio is one of three targets currently being advanced as part of the... →
Bacanora signs deal to develop Sonora project
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 15th December 2017 Dual-listed lithium miner Bacanora Minerals and Chinese institutional fund management group NextView Capital have signed an agreement which would see the latter acquire a 19.89% equity interest in Bacanora through the placement of 32.97-million common shares at a price of 94.53p apiece. The... →
Premier sees option for bulk mining scenario at Zulu lithium project
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 14th December 2017 Premier African Minerals has identified the ZDD-45 prospect at its Zulu lithium project, in Zimbabwe, as the project’s best hole to date, as it continues to deliver “excellent results” that are well supported by further assay results that are now becoming available. The updated drilling results... →
Lithium powers Deloitte WA Index
By: Creamer Media Reporter 14th December 2017 The market capitalisation of Western Australia-listed companies increased by 3.3% to A$173.1-billion in November, driven by greater interest in the battery technology space and progress of a number of lithium explorers towards production. “We have seen a number of potential customers come out of... →
San Jose feasibility study fully funded
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 13th December 2017 ASX-listed Plymouth Minerals has received commitments to raise $6.5-million through the issue of 36.4-million shares at $0.18 apiece, with the funds committed towards the completion of a feasibility study at its San Jose lithium/tin project, in the mining region of Extremadura, Spain. The company... →
Sonora feasibility study places Bacanora among the world’s top lithium suppliers
By: Samantha Herbst 13th December 2017 Aim- and TSX-V-listed Bacanora Minerals’ Sonora lithium project, located in Mexico’s northern Sonora state, has the potential to become a significant supplier of battery-grade lithium to growing industries like electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage, according to Bacanora CEO Peter Secker.... →
Kodal to protect Bougouni interests, applies for new licences
By: Mia Breytenbach 13th December 2017 Aim-listed Kodal Minerals has taken action to protect its ownership of relevant interests in the Kolassokoro licence area by filing new applications for two 100 km2 licences covering high-priority areas that form part of the Bougouni lithium project, in Mali. Kodal gained an interest in the... →
Premier African Minerals completes further drilling at Zulu lithium project
By: Megan van Wyngaardt 12th December 2017 Multicommodity mining and natural resources development company Premier African Minerals has completed a further 24 drill holes at its Zulu lithium prospect, in Zimbabwe, which the Aim-listed company says has delivered “spectacular” results. The drilling reached 3 638.54 m since the initial 2... →
Crucial for commodity countries to build economic resilience – Unctad 
By: Martin Creamer 11th December 2017 Without policy change, commodity-dependent developing countries risk falling short of achieving their sustainable development goals (SDGs) by 2030, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) economic affairs officer Stefan Csordas warned on Monday. Unctad and the Food and... →
Cyril Ramaphosa calls for mining sector action 
By: Martin Creamer 11th December 2017 South Africa must urgently break the ongoing deadlock on the regulation and transformation of the mining sector to ensure the proper use of this country’s world-class mineral resources, says Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. In an article on the CR17 Siyavuma campaign website, ahead of this... →
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
Argentina acquisition marks start of strategic shift for Cadence
By: Mariaan Webb 11th December 2017 UK-based mining investment firm Cadence Minerals has marked the shift to a new focus of investing in early stage lithium assets with shorter development timelines than that of typical lithium carbonate producers, with the news on Monday of an Argentina acquisition. The company announced that it... →
Novo Litio changes European lithium plans
By: Mariaan Webb 11th December 2017 Shares in ASX-listed Novo Litio fell 15% on Monday as the company announced an update to its European lithium strategy. The company said its focus would shift to generating new lithium drill targets on its landholding in the northern Portugal lithium belt, although it would continue to pursue... →
Sayona embarks on DFS for Canada lithium project
By: Natasha Odendaal 11th December 2017 ASX-listed Sayona Mining has started a definitive feasibility study (DFS) for the Authier lithium project, in Canada, after an optimised prefeasibility study (PFS) reiterated “excellent returns”. The PFS, incorporating an updated ore reserve and mineral resource, estimated low start-up capital... →
Hannans raises A$3.6m for WA exploration
By: Mariaan Webb 11th December 2017 ASX-listed junior Hannans has raised A$3.6-million in an oversubscribed capital raising to fund continued exploration for lithium at the Forrestania project, in Western Australia. The project is near the Earl Grey lithium project being developed by NYSE-listed SQM and Australian miner Kidman... →
Owner’s engineer role by ‘Proudly South African’ Erudite pleasing Perth
By: Martin Creamer 8th December 2017 New ‘Proudly South African’ start-up Erudite Strategies has hit a rich vein of acceptance in Australia, where investors in junior mining projects in Africa are showing alacrity in taking up its unique client representative and owner’s engineer offering. Each of Erudite’s three leading lights has... →
Lithium Australia declares maiden resource at German project
By: Creamer Media Reporter 7th December 2017 Perth-based explorer Lithium Australia has declared a maiden inferred mineral resource estimate of 25-million tonnes at 0.45% Li2O at the Sadisdorf tin/lithium project, in Saxony, Germany. Lithium Australia is farming into a joint venture with Tin International, which previously defined a tin... →
India’s electric-vehicle target faces raw material challenges
By: Ajoy K Das 7th December 2017 India’s goal of moving completely to electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030, is facing severe challenges, including a lack of reserves for litium-ion components, such as lithium, cobalt and nickel, and uncoordinated efforts from various stakeholders, the government’s apex advisory body has warned. In a... →
European Lithium announces capital raising
By: Creamer Media Reporter 6th December 2017 The developer of the Wolfsberg project in Austria, European Lithium, on Wednesday announced that it would place shares to raise up to $4-million, with an option to raise an additional $1-million. The company would undertake the placement at an issue price of $0.225 a share, which represented a... →
Lithium giant SQM eyes new project to tackle electric-car boom
By: Bloomberg 6th December 2017 One of the world’s largest lithium producers is looking to expand into a new country as prices surge to record highs amid a nascent electric-vehicle boom led by car makers such as Tesla and Mitsubishi. Soc. Quimica & Minera de Chile SA is considering opportunities to establish a foothold in a... →
Glencore-Canada venture hitched to low-carbon economy shift
By: Martin Creamer 5th December 2017 The joint venture partnership Glencore struck with a Canadian pension plan on Tuesday provides exposure to commodities that benefit from a low-carbon economy. BaseCore Metals, a 50:50 partnership centred on base metals streams and royalties, involves Glencore Canada Corporation contributing a... →
Nemaska delivers first lithium hydroxide made from own Whabouchi spodumene
By: Henry Lazenby 5th December 2017 The TSX-listed stock of lithium development company Nemaska Lithium jumped to a new 52-week high of C$2.24 apiece on Monday, after the company confirmed that it had delivered 1.5 t of lithium hydroxide produced from its Wabouchi spodumene mine, in Quebec. "This is the first time a new entrant to... →
Change or lose another 100 000 mining jobs – Cutifani
By: Martin Creamer 4th December 2017 Without change, the South African mining industry would lose another 100 000 jobs, said Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani, who six years ago accurately predicted the recent 100 000 job demise in South African mining. “I'll say it again, absent of change, we’ll lose another 100 000 jobs,” the... →
Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani
Core Exploration enters maiden offtake, prepayment agreements
By: Natasha Odendaal 1st December 2017 ASX-listed Core Exploration has entered into a binding lithium offtake agreement and a conditional $20-million prepayment agreement with China-based lithium hydroxide and carbonate producer Ya Hua International Investment and Development for the Finniss lithium project, near Darwin, in the... →
The cobalt crunch for electric cars could be solved in suburbia
By: Bloomberg 1st December 2017 Almost 9 000 miles from the dusty Congo savanna, miners have hit on an entirely new source of cobalt – the rare mineral at the heart of the electric-car boom. And not only can they take coffee breaks, when they take a break, they can grab a doughnut at Tim Hortons. Scientists working for American... →
Demand for battery metals will drive African exploration, investment
By: Nadine James 1st December 2017 Growth in the electric vehicle (EV) market will boost demand for battery metals exponentially, driving exploration and investment in Africa. This was discussed during a live-streamed Mining Indaba panel on energy metals in which Cobalt 27 chairperson Anthony Milewski, Montero president and CEO Dr... →
Cobalt’s dramatic demand bump gives rise to novel investment vehicle
By: Henry Lazenby 1st December 2017 Cobalt supply constraints, coupled with a never-before-seen boom in the adoption rate of electric vehicles (EV) across the globe, have conspired to create an ideal market in which a pure-play cobalt investment and participation vehicle's profits can outpace its peers. Cobalt, a critical ‘energy... →
Electric vehicle revolution a rare investment opportunity as metals demand spikes
By: Henry Lazenby 1st December 2017 The rate at which global auto markets are adopting electrically powered vehicles (EVs) is accelerating at a much faster pace than even some of the keenest market observers have estimated at the start of 2017, and is opening up once-in-a-lifetime investment opportunities among the four key ‘energy... →
Dassault Systèmes heralding in new autonomous mining era
By: Martin Creamer 30th November 2017 The 'mine of tomorrow' is expected to be a factory-like entity equipped with a multiplicity of autonomous devices, which are controlled by technology savvy personnel working from remote centres, attendees of the natural resources forum heard in Sandton on Thursday. The ‘mine of tomorrow’ would... →
Resources Watch
30th November 2017 This week: Argentina Lithium embarks on 10 000 m drill campaign And, Mato Products celebrates thirtieth anniversary →
European Metals raises £2.28m for lithium DFS
By: Creamer Media Reporter 30th November 2017 Australia- and UK-listed European Metals has raised £2.28-million through subscriptions to UK-based sophisticated investors. The funds will be used to advance the ongoing definitive feasibility study on the Cinovec deposit in the Czech Republic, which the company says is Europe’s largest lithium... →
Galaxy seals lithium offtake contracts with Asian partners
By: Creamer Media Reporter 29th November 2017 Lithium miner Galaxy Resources has signed binding offtake agreements for 200 000 t/y of lithium concentrate from its Mt Cattlin operation and said on Wednesday that 100% of the planned output from the mine in Ravensthorpe, Western Australia, had now been sold on a five-year contract term. The... →
Magnis receives strong interest from flake graphite buyers
By: Samantha Herbst 28th November 2017 Having evolved into a diversified project developer with graphite mine developer operations and ownership in the large-scale manufacture of lithium-ion batteries, ASX-listed graphite buyer and seller Magnis Resources has received strong interest from a number of parties looking to source... →
European Metals reports increased indicated resource at Cinovec
By: Samantha Herbst 28th November 2017 Following a four-month drilling campaign, ASX- and Aim-listed European Metals has announced an additional upgrade of its Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant Cinovec lithium/tin project, in the Czech Republic, confirming the project’s status as Europe’s largest lithium resource. The drilling... →
Bald Hill project 'coming to life'
By: Mariaan Webb 28th November 2017 The Bald Hill lithium project, near Kambalda, in Western Australia, is proceeding apace with structural steel work now well advanced and the placement of mechanical equipment and electrical cable having started. Mark Calderwood, MD of Tawana Resources, which owns the project in a joint venture... →
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