Frank
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*Keep up the great work everyone, Keep the Pressure On and
AVZ Discussion 2022
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Bin59
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Gates-backed explorer makes play for Congo lithium deposit
KoBold Metals has told the government of the DRC it wants to develop one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium deposits.
www.mining.com
An interesting footnote at the end of the article in mining.com:
Michael Bloomberg, the majority owner of Bloomberg News’ parent Bloomberg LP, is an investor in Gates’ Breakthrough Energy, which holds a stake in KoBold, according to the company’s website.
2B minimum for the north plus a resource llifetime of Royalties
Hodlandwin69
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I imagine that footnote is for disclosure purposesGates-backed explorer makes play for Congo lithium deposit
KoBold Metals has told the government of the DRC it wants to develop one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium deposits.
An interesting footnote at the end of the article in mining.com:
Michael Bloomberg, the majority owner of Bloomberg News’ parent Bloomberg LP, is an investor in Gates’ Breakthrough Energy, which holds a stake in KoBold, according to the company’s website.
2B minimum for the north plus a resource llifetime of Royalties
So...let's have a look what the backers of Kobold Metals got in there back pockets...
Bill Gates...
And Michael Bloomberg....
This are only the 3 biggest backers from Kobold Metals....worth more than 400.000.000.000 { 400 Billion } US $
They got the dosh....We got the gear.....12 $ US
This are only the 3 biggest backers from Kobold Metals....worth more than 400.000.000.000 { 400 Billion } US $
They got the dosh....We got the gear.....12 $ US
Dave Evans
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Gates-backed explorer makes play for Congo lithium deposit
KoBold Metals has told the government of the DRC it wants to develop one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium deposits.
An interesting footnote at the end of the article in mining.com:
Michael Bloomberg, the majority owner of Bloomberg News’ parent Bloomberg LP, is an investor in Gates’ Breakthrough Energy, which holds a stake in KoBold, according to the company’s website.
2B minimum for the north plus a resource llifetime of Royalties
Maybe an opportunity to get Bloomberg to look more closely at the AVZ Minerals Story and Cominiere’s Corruption
THE AVZ MINERALS STORY
Since 2017 in the DRC, AVZ Minerals has spent over $140 million on Acquiring Equipment for Infrastructure, Soil Sampling, Field Mapping, Consulting, Drilling, Metallurgical Testing, Completing a FEED Study, Environmental Study and Impact Assessment Reports including Groundwater Management, a 160...
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Cominiere’s Corruption
Cominiere’s Corruption Investors, mining companies, battery maker’s and EV manufacturer’s around the world know the story of AVZ Minerals and how DRC state miner Cominiere seized the Manono lithium project from Dathcom and sold it to Chinese Zijin Mining Follow the links below to see 1. The...
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I posted AVZ’s story to Bloomberg. Will let you know if they respond via email
Azzler
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Did somebody say Easter ?
Interesting what Frank Famba recons...
If the DRC will follow their mining code and AVZ wins all the international arbitration....The North will go back to AVZ and Zijin or the DRC have to compensate AVZ respectfully...I would think that Nigel would stay strong about the north..
Indeed - all this talk of Zijin getting the north because they are entrenched is absolutely sickening. Zijin gone, out, f#ck off you're trespassing. Corruption should not be rewarded with a world class asset?
Stockinvesting
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Cheers. Still wouldn't come up.
Thanks anyway
Funny.... since Felix and Donald start communicating about Lithium...the price went up...coincidence..May be the Chinese realise they can't keep the price of Lithium for ever down...so many games
The last 7 day lithium chart....
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And a whooping 7.22 % increase today only...interesting times indeed.
An sharp increasing Lithium price could be a nice Bonus on the negotiation table...let's see
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My chart doesnt share your thesis........that being said, i do believe lithium has found the bottom....
Your chart is a yearly chart....the chart I posted was a weekly chart..View attachment 79924
My chart doesnt share your thesis........that being said, i do believe lithium has found the bottom....
Apparently you can paste the link into ChatGPT and it will work there.
I’ve never tried it, so if anyone else does or has, let us know!!
Bray
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This. Fuck the dogs, kick em out
This is a daily chart..........still fucked
I wonder what AVZ price would be if still listed on the ASX with the lithium sector tanked and the knowledge that DRC is the most corrupt planet on earth ?
The irony is AVZ is the best performing stock within the lithium sector with a chance to get a 300+ % premium with a buy out.
Show me the money Trump !
( my new bestie lol )
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Frank
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My chart doesnt share your thesis........that being said, i do believe lithium has found the bottom....
Battery storage could power the next lithium boom
- Singapore-based Arcane Capital sees a lithium rebound as soon as Q4 2025
- Recovery could be driven by low battery prices and BESS market growth
- Companies like AZL, FBM, GT1 and CC9 could be poised to benefit
Green Technology Metals is one of those companies, confident of a recovery by the time they get the Seymour project in Canada into production in 2027 – when Fastmarkets expect 5.5% spodumene concentrate to be trading at around US$1146/t.
For comparison, investment bank RBC thinks spodumene prices will rise to US$1125/t on a 6% Li2O basis in 2026.
But Arcane Capital Advisors director and co-fund manager YueJer (YJ) Lee thinks it could rebound even sooner, and said he is among the (very) short list of people that think the lithium market will turn around as early as Q4 2025.
“Low battery prices are driving down EV prices and that WILL have an effect on EV penetration rates,” he said.
Battery energy storage systems growing exponentially
That’s just the first tipping point, the second is the growth of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Lee said.“This is growing exponentially, far faster than companies and analysts realise,” he said.
“Last year’s BESS market was 160GWh (not including behind-the-meter of another 45GWh), and I expect this year the BESS market to be in the 300GWh range (plus another 80GWh BTM).
“Many forecasters are still calculating 200GWh in the whole storage market.
“The difference here is equal to, or greater than, their entire lithium oversupply.”
He’s not alone in that opinion. Liontown Resources Tony Ottaviano sees energy storage systems as the next big growth area for lithium demand.
“The one that I want to draw out is energy storage systems. If we look at this and seeing … the growth we’ve experienced over the last 12 months and what is being projected, we see this as a tremendous growth engine for demand of lithium units,” he said in the company’s earnings call last week.
“Just to give you a bit of colour, I don’t know how many people have seen the recent CATL prospectus, but they are projecting a significant increase in battery shipments for stationary batteries.
“And if they are accurate in their forecast by the end of the decade, they believe that market will be as big as in terms of lithium carbon equivalents to the EV market today.
“That’s how strong they believe this market will grow.”
Lee says there’s one more element to the recovery scenario, that every other large demand source is not well-covered.
“Each e-bus is 300kWh, each truck 600-800kWh,” he said.
“Even ships and ferries are going electric now (LV Shui 01 has a 50MWh battery!).
“With everything electrifying at a faster rate than before, driven by exceptionally low prices of batteries, I see a positive demand shock that should make lithium investors very happy.”
“This year we will see EVs becoming cheaper than their ICE counterparts in many markets.
“Drivers get lower upfront costs, lower maintenance over the vehicle lifetime, and nearly cost-free driving (and if paired with solar/batteries in the house, literally cost-free.)”
Kobold are not s SPAC they don't just sit on a pile of cash looking for something to do with it.
It does however create a framework for bringing together huge amounts of investment when there is somewhere for it to go.
There are a lot of reasons America has lost out to China for resources in Africa. But if the Americans are deciding to go for something you can be sure as hell the thing they WON'T be beaten out by is investment capital.
- ICC case sets a floor for out "appropriate compensation"
- If someone can find it back, Zijin had a claim for damages that could be used prorata to estimate value of the project
- Other lithium project acquisitions set a reference value.
- CATH involvement reinforces the floor for compensation
+ compensation values are calculated based on business values. AVZ doesn't get to use 'geopolitical value' in the DFS accounting. So let's add that to the floor price.
Nothing under $10B even deserves consideration, and we know Kobold can play ball on those numbers. So let's stop throwing around all these peanut valuations.
Another way to think of it:
$10B is often less than even just the daily variability in MC for Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla etc.
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Re 'Geopolitical risk'
For decades the 'safest' investment in the world had been US treasury bonds because they were backed by the US Federal Reserve. Recently Trump et al have made it clear that they:
1. Do NOT see a prior agreement to pay money for something as anything they need to actually honor.
2. Intend to diminish the capabilities of Federal Reserves.
There is however 1 thing that's EVEN SAFER than in investment backed by the US Federal Reserve, and that's an investment backed by the US MILITARY.
How that factors in for us, Felix et al, I dont know. But even the threat of direct US military involvement to protect their resource interests is enough to make people reconsider their actions.
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