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☆ Albemarle to take 5% stake in Patriot Battery Minerals for Canada lithium
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Albemarle, the world's biggest lithium producer, is acquiring the stake in Patriot just as the Canadian company estimated its Corvette resource as the biggest hardrock lithium deposit in the Americas. Patriot also agreed to study with Albemarle the viability of a downstream lithium hydroxide plant integrated with its Corvette deposit. The battery metals miner on Monday announced the first mineral resource estimate for spodumene pegmatite at Corvette, which showed deposits of 109.2 million tonnes of lithium oxide. Albemarle will subscribe to about 7.1 million Patriot shares for C$15.29 apiece, a near 7% premium to the stock's July 31 closing price on the TSX Venture Exchange. Patriot's Australia-listed shares jumped as much as 20.7% to A$1.823 by 0053 GMT, posting their biggest intraday percentage gain since March 28.

Persons: pegmatite, Reg Spencer, Blair Way, Echha Jain, Melanie Burton, Subhranshu Sahu Organizations: Battery Metals, Albemarle, Canadian, Monday, TSX Venture Exchange, Patriot, Patriot's, Thomson Locations: Australia, Canada, Albemarle, Americas, Genuity, Patriot's Australia, Bengaluru, Melbourne

☆ As lithium miners gear up for Q1 earnings, investors focus on tumbling prices
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Arshreet Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Strong demand for EVs and limited supply of the metal pushed lithium prices to record levels in November last year, soaring more than ten-fold from early 2021. But a slump in demand for electric vehicles in China, the world's biggest market, left a stockpile of the metal and drove prices down. Lithium prices have fallen by at least a third in the first quarter, according to an index tracked by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, raising concerns miners will see a hit to their bottomline. Though falling spot prices have raised red flags for investors over the long-term outlook of lithium miners, analysts believe spot prices will rise again as we get closer to the end of the year. In the long run, supply will continue to fall short of demand, which will help the miners, he added.

Listed miners with lithium projects in South America suffered, however, on concerns other governments may follow Chile's lead. Elsewhere in Asia, lithium prices stabilised on an improved demand outlook, and Japan acted to shore up its EV minerals supply by announcing a swathe of industry subsidies. Bucking the regional trend were Australian-listed miners with projects in South America's lithium triangle which spans Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, on concerns other governments may follow Chile's footsteps. Shares in miners with Argentine projects fell. Lithium Power International, (LPI.AX) whose Maricunga brine project is Chile's largest permitted, proposed project welcomed the new policy which it said would "positively transform" Chile's lithium industry.

☆ U.S. Powerball jackpot soars to record $1.9 billion
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Rich Mckay | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] A screen advertises the Powerball jackpot of $1.9 billion dollars at a newsstand in New York City, U.S., November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidATLANTA, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Americans on Monday were lining up yet again to buy Powerball tickets, dreaming of winning a $1.9 billion lottery jackpot that had jumped to a record high after repeated drawings failed to produce a winner. It remained down on Monday afternoon except for a home page listing Saturday's winning numbers and the new jackpot estimate. "Someone has to win," Spencer said after he shelled out cash for two $2 tickets at a Chevron station in east Atlanta. The previous record for a Powerball jackpot came in 2016, when three ticketholders from California, Florida and Tennessee shared a $1.586 billion top prize.

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