Over $5.6 Billion in strategic funding and M&A have been announced in the first 120 days of 2024 in the lithium industry as lithium prices begin to rally once again.
Lithium has received more strategic funding and M&A than any other commodity we are aware of.
Lithium prices are up 250% from pandemic lows with strategic funding and M&A still soaring despite prices being down from 2022 highs. The commodity is now on its way up again – Already up ~ 20% this year. The smart money is acquiring lithium now, underlined by a number of recently announced M&A transactions.
Lithium industry pioneer and Scorpion Minerals boss Michael Fotios believes a potential tripling in carbonate prices could be in the cards by the end of the year.
…” As lepidolite mining in China stalls and growth in electric vehicle production surges, Fotios – a second-generation geologist and founding father of Galaxy Resources – says carbonate prices could lift from their current base of US$18,000/t up to projections of US$50,000/t.
NO LITHIUM = NO EVS = NO CELL PHONES OR TABLETS
Take it from the smartest investor in history, Warren Buffett.
“Be greedy when others are fearful. Be fearful when others are greedy.” And the big players are cashing in on lithium in Argentina, located in the prolific Lithium triangle.
In Fact, Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is investing in the lithium according to a recent article by Seeking Alpha.
In the past 120 days Gangfeng Lithium has acquired a 14.8% stake in Millennial lithium Argentina at a USD $480 Million valuation for its Argentina lithium salar project. Rio Tinto has committed to invest an additional $350 Million at its Argentina Rincon Lithium Salar Project, Chile’s SQM has committed to buy Azure Minerals for $1.7 Billion and Eramet has committed to invest $800 Million on an Argentina lithium salar project.
Another monster in the lithium battery industry Elon Musk continues to jockey for position in this industry rallying once again up 20% in 2024.
Last summer, Elon Musk went on record describing lithium as “the new oil,” pointing out that the light metallic element now forms a vital link in the automotive industry and supply chain. Lithium is an essential component of modern rechargeable battery technology and is found in everything from smartphones and tablets to laptop computers to electric-powered bicycles and automobiles.
We are going to explain how you could get involved in capitalizing in the hottest M&A Sector and the future of the green transition – Lithium in Argentina.
There is a company we want to introduce to you that we believe, if successful, can be part of the solution for lithium independence across the Americas.
Its name is American Salars Lithium Inc. (OTC: USLIF | CSE: USLI).
Before you read another word, however, add this stock to the list of companies you watch RIGHT NOW.
Why?
Because it aims to become a premier miner of lithium in Argentina, currently in the hottest commodity M&A market on Earth right now.
This lesser-known company with just a sub $10 Million market cap American Salars Lithium Inc. which trades on the OTC under the symbol USLIF and in Canada under the symbol USLI has announced the acquisition of two separate lithium resource in Argentina both with an inferred resources. The Pocitos 1 project shares 60% of a 760,000 tonnes with a neighboring property or approximately 456,000 tonnes. The Candela II project has a resource of 457,000 tonnes of lithium on its own.
“457,000 tonnes of inferred lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE)” according to American Salars website.”
IFN MENTAL MATH: At current spot price of approximately $10,000 USD per tonne could have a staggering in ground value of *$9.13 Billion USD and the project is still expandable.
*Napkin Math: (456,000+457,000) * $10,000 USD = $9,130,000,000 USD
* Please note this is an estimate of in ground value and this does not represent an official Net Present Value statement and is not to be relied upon.
“With new zones identified to increase this resource.”
American Salars currently trades at less then a $10 Million market cap.
IFN READERS SHOULD CONSIDER ADDING AMERICAN SALARS TO THEIR WATCHLIST
Lithium Mergers, Acquisitions and Strategic Funding is at an all time high in 2024. Lower lithium prices mean more industry consolidation and more opportunity to profit.
Lithium projects like the ones American Salars (OTC:USLIF / CSE:USLI) is developing with a staggering inferred 457,000 tonne lithium resource already in place are being bought up by larger players that are recognizing these low costs resources hold the key to economic lithium mining for the future of the battery market.
The lithium M&A trend seams to be unstoppable.
A list of some recent transaction:
Most investors don’t get this…
So, you will be ahead of the curve if you do.
Let us explain in detail why according to Elon Musk Lithium could be as important in the 21st century as oil and gas was to the 20th.
In just two centuries since its discovery, lithium has become one of humanity’s most versatile commodities. Early in the Boom, lithium proved to be an effective mood stabilizer, and it would still be a valuable material if that were the only use, we ever found for it.
But that’s hardly the case. It wasn’t long before industrial uses emerged, and lithium became a major additive to lubricants, as well as an input to smelting, manufacturing and catalytic processes.
Lithium’s importance didn’t stop there. In its metallic form lithium efficiently conducts heat and electricity, making it an ideal medium for storing and transmitting energy. Its high charge and power-to-weight ratio make it an ideal material for rechargeable batteries.
And that’s what’s commanding the investment community’s attention as the world moves to electric cars and transport.
Rechargeable batteries using lithium emerged in response to the 1970s’ oil shocks. After years of development, the high-powered lithium-ion battery entered the market. From consumer electronics to military equipment to aerospace, the Lithium-Ion Battery revolutionized dozens of applications.
Then came smart phones and tablets. Then came electric vehicles.
EVs alone could drive a 5x lithium demand increase by 2040. As a result, the global Lithium Battery market is estimated to reach a value of US$75 billion by 2027.
We might only be in the early stages of lithium’s contributions to solving the world’s energy storage challenges. The more we come to adopt renewable energy sources, the more reliant we’ll be on the sun always shining on the solar array or the wind always spinning the turbines. Since neither of these things is ever going to happen, we remain in critical need for some way of keeping the power we generate available until the moment it’s needed to light up a screen or power a car.
This expanding demand won’t likely be confined to the developed world.
“Lithium’s role in the decarbonization of the global economy is so important that several countries have classified it as a critical or strategic raw material,” — ILA.
Growing demand tends to lead higher prices, and such is the case with lithium.
Over the course of seven years, lithium carbonate spot prices rose 10x. While the trend has long been broadly positive, nothing could have prepared the market for the year it had in 2022, when prices surged from $12,600 to $68,100 (US) per metric ton. In late 2023, Lithium spot prices retrenched to the $12,000 to $18,000 (US) range, which some analysts indicate could be an investment opportunity in both the commodity itself and the enterprises that extract it. Lithium is already up 20% in 2024 and mergers, acquisitions total close to $5.0 Billion in transactions in the first 5 months of the year.
Again, so far in 2024, the biggest deal has been SQM’s recently announced acquisition of Azure Minerals for $1.7 Billion and Gangfeng’s partial acquisition of Millenial Argentina Lithium at a USD $480 Million. This would be remarkable in its own right, but even so, it pales in magnitude compared to 2023’s top deal: the $10.6 billion merger of Livent and Allkem, forming Arcadium Lithium.
American Salars (OTC:USLIF / CSE:USLI) is in the right neighbourhood (Argentina) with an established and growing resource, with a sub $10 Million market cap, next door to the Conglomerate Gangfeng with a $10 Billion Market Cap.
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The Inflation Reduction Act has committed 100s of Billions to new climate and energy investment of which lithium is deemed a critical mineral. – In fact,… The US Government is now funding lithium mines with the announcement of $2.26 Billion for Thacker Pass
And nearly every developed nation on the planet now has an objective for the majority of their cars on the road to be electric by 2030.
Lithium demand should reach 1.5 million metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent, or LCE, by 2025, according to the World Economic Forum, and more than 3 million by 2030.
“For context, the world produced 540,000 tonnes of LCE in 2021,” the report found. “Based on the above demand projections, production needs to triple by 2025 and increase nearly six-fold by 2030.” American Salars (OTC: USLIF / CSE: USLI) is starting with a staggering 457,000 inferred tonnes of Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE) on Candela II and approximately 456,000 inferred tonnes at Pocitos 1.
“Production needs to triple by 2025 and increase nearly six-fold by 2030.” – World Economic Forum
Considering it can take anywhere from six to 15 years for new projects to come online, the lithium market will surely remain in a deficit for years. But with new DLE (Direct Lithium Extraction) technologies like those amenamble to American Salars (OTC: USLIF / CSE: USLI) lithium resource production is simplified, and costs are reduced.
American Salars (OTC: USLIF / CSE: USLI), has assembled an extraordinary portfolio of projects and is largely looked over until now.
Candela II Lithium Project, Incahuasi Salar, Argentina which hosts an inferred resource of 457,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) which if further proven up at $15,000 per tonne could have a staggering in situ value fo $5.9 Billion USD and the project is still expandable with new zones identified to increase the resource.
Pocitos 1 Lithium Project, on the Pocitos Salar, Argentina shares an NI 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate (“MRE”) consisting of an inferred 760,000 tonne lithium carbonate equivalent (“LCE”). The MRE is contained on the Pocitos 1 block (800 Ha) in combination with the neighbouring Pocitos 2 block (532 Ha). All of the drilling that makes up the basis of the MRE, on the combined Pocitos 1 and Pocitos 2 blocks, occurred on the Pocitos 1 block. If 60% of those resources are on the Pocitos 1 block then approximately 456,000 tonnes of LCE could be worth an additional in situ value of $5.9 Billion USD
Black Rock South Lithium Project, Nevada, USA which is close neighbours to Surge battery metals project which hosts a $63 Million market cap as of April 30th, 2024.
Let’s remember that this is only an initial resource estimate with a drill program targeting a bigger zone which could see this number grow substantially. There is plenty of room for an enterprise to grow, providing that it doesn’t have the “pile it high, sell it cheap” commodities mindset.
American Salars (OTC: USLIF / CSE: USLI), takes profound satisfaction in its record of innovation, which adds human value to the natural resource.
Brine projects – such as American Salars’ – have two advantages. Not only do they tread a smaller environmental footprint, but the also build resources at a lower cost.
Direct lithium extraction mines – the new way, Extract the brines and filters out the lithium and other valuable minerals. The process leaves freshwater that can be utilize locally or injected back into the aquifer.
Evaporative brine mining, which many of American Salars’ (OTC: USLIF / CSE: USLI), competitors continue to operate – wastes huge amounts of freshwater which also environmentally problematic and the cause of many of the political issues and great reputational damage to the industry, according to Argentinian academics.
DLE technology is an ESG dream and when done correctly could supply potable water in these arid regions. This isn’t the old dirty mining of the past where poor children were exploited for mining nasty open pits.
In the early years of the boom, Chile emerged as the Western Hemisphere’s leading producer of lithium carbonate. In addition to what was believed to be the largest proven reserves on earth, the Andean country had the kind of stable social and legal framework which made it amenable to foreign investment. Neither of those factors, though, is still the case.
At the moment, Bolivia appears to have more lithium reserves than Chile, but the more we explore the more we find throughout the “Lithium Triangle”. Argentina is, of course, the third side of that triangle, and it produces five times as much of the metal as Bolivia currently does.
J.P. Morgan predicts that, by 2030, Argentina will be the world’s third-largest lithium supplier, trailing only Australia and China which is where American Salars (OTC: USLIF / CSE: USLI) is focused.
In 2022, Chile’s communist-adjacent Social Convergence party formed a government, upending decades of policies favorable to investment in the Natural Resources sector. Not only is nationalization of the mines a stated goal of President Gabriel Boric’s administration, so is a drastic rewriting of the Chilean constitution. All this has eroded confidence in lithium mining projects there.
“Uncertainty surrounding Boric’s lithium strategy hasn’t helped Chile’s growth prospects, as no new investments have been announced since April [2023],” according to Americas Quarterly, “and pre-existing contracts remain uncertain.”
“Uncertainty surrounding Boric’s lithium strategy hasn’t helped Chile’s growth prospects, as no new investments have been announced since April [2023].” — Americas Quarterly
Argentina’s lithium resources, on the other hand, belong to the provinces, not the federal government, so they can’t be expropriated. Inevitably, the provinces collect a tax, but it’s an order of magnitude lower than the taxes charged by the national revenue authorities in Chile and Bolivia. And as a result of the ascension of libertarian Javier Milei to the presidency in Buenos Aires, Argentina’s regulatory environment is much more favorable to the extraction industry.
American Salars (OTC: USLIF / CSE: USLI), Candela II project is in the Salta Province which is politically one of the most favourable in the country with no local Indigenous communities anticipated to challenge the projects path towards production.
Argentina has emerged the most mining friendly lithium region in the Lithium triangle, the most prolific lithium region in the world.
Management and their Technical Team have been involved in many lithium projects across the Globe but most notably all of the biggest success’s have come in Argentina:
Mr. Philip Thomas the company’s QP (Qualified Person) independent technical person working on its lithium resource in Argentina was involved in the Rincon project, most recently sold to Rio Tinto for $825.0 Million. He was also involved in the Pozuelos Salar project sold to Gangfeng for $962 Million.
And again, guess who the neighbour is on this established Resource: Gangfeng
The company’s newest addition Mr. Chris Cooper less then a year ago was involved in the sale of Alpha’s Argentina Lithium Project for $313 Million.
Here’s why you should IMMEDIATELY put American Salars Lithium (OTC: USLIF / CSE:USLI) on your radar:
Established Inferred Lithium Resource of 457,000 tonnes prepared by one of the largest lithium engineering funds on the Planet: WSP. And with its newly announced Pocitos 1 projects that number could be increased by another 456,000 tonnes in the near term,
IFN MENTAL MATH: At current spot price of approximately $10,000 USD per tonne, could have a staggering in ground value of *$9.13 Billion USD and the project is still expandable.
Mergers and Acquisitions and Strategic Funding for these projects are at an all time high and this team knows how to get it done.
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