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Austin Devaney has a wealth of lithium experience from a decade with Rockwood/Albemarle, his time with Piedmont Lithium and his new advisory business: Li7 Charged.Topics:The state of the industrySupply/demandChina's price strategy The importance of Rio Tinto's entryThe rush to AfricaA "China build" vs the WestThe new cost curveThe future of US lithiumCathode (ex China)Elon dramaAlbemarle's woesWhat is the incentive price?Rapid fire

Atlantic Lithium Ltd (AIM:ALL, OTCQX:ALLIF, ASX:A11) executive chairman Neil Herbert talked with Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the company's strategy to bring the Ewoyaa Lithium Project in Ghana into production. Herbert acknowledged the recent downturn in lithium prices but emphasised the strong long-term demand driven by electric vehicle and battery storage growth. He highlighted Ewoyaa's position as a low-cost producer, making it attractive to off-takers looking for stable future supply. Discussing funding strategies, Herbert outlined a collaborative approach involving partners such as Piedmont Lithium, Sayona Mining, and Assore International. He also noted increasing interest from non-Chinese off-takers in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The Ghanaian government has shown strong support for the project, with mining lease ratification expected in the second quarter of the year. Herbert also discussed the project's high feldspar content, which could support Ghana's ceramics industry, and touched on exploration potential in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. The company raised A$10 million to optimise Ewoyaa ahead of a final investment decision, expected in Q3 2025. Watch the full interview to learn more about Atlantic Lithium's plans. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and turn on notifications for more updates from Proactive! #AtlanticLithium #LithiumMining #EwoyaaProject #EVBatteries #BatteryMetals #MiningStocks #Investing #LithiumDemand #GhanaMining #MiningIndustry

In this episode, featuring Keith Muller, CEO of Atlantic Lithium, we discuss the latest developments and challenges facing the lithium market and Atlantic Lithium's shareholders over the past 18 months. Keith provides insights on the emergence of African spodumene supply and its impact on the lithium industry, along with an update on Atlantic Lithium's involvement in the Ghana elections and its collaborative ventures with Piedmont Lithium. The company is forecasting 360,000 tons per year of spodumene concentrate. The interview also highlights strategic investments, project milestones, and potential financing options, noting that the company is fortified by strategic partnerships and boasts zero debt. CHAPTERS

Sayona Mining Ltd Managing Director & CEO Lucas Dow talked with Proactive about the company's growth strategy and key priorities for 2025. He highlighted that Sayona Mining is currently North America's largest spodumene producer, with over 200,000 tonnes produced annually at its North American Lithium (NAL) facility. The company also has its Moblan project, a greenfield development in partnership with Investment Quebec. Dow discussed the strategic rationale behind Sayona's merger with Piedmont Lithium, announced in November 2024. He noted that extensive exploration at NAL had significantly increased the resource base, making an expansion possible. However, an existing offtake agreement with Piedmont posed challenges, which the merger resolves. Sayona expects operational synergies from the merger to generate cost savings of between $15 million to $20 million per year. For 2025, the company's key priorities include reducing unit costs, optimizing production, and achieving cash break-even. Additionally, Sayona is focused on completing the merger by mid-year and progressing both brownfield expansion at NAL and development at Moblan. Dow emphasized the company's commitment to efficiency and growth, stating, "We're really quite excited about the opportunity this move is going to provide." For more updates on Sayona Mining, visit Proactive's YouTube channel. Don't forget to like this video, subscribe, and turn on notifications for future content. #SayonaMining #Lithium #MiningStocks #BatteryMetals #EVRevolution #PiedmontLithium #Spodumene #Investing #MiningIndustry #PDAC2025

In this episode, we catch up with Sayona Mining's CEO, Lucas Dow, for an in-depth discussion on the company's latest developments. Topics include the recent merger announcement with Piedmont Lithium, quarterly results, stellar drill outcomes at North American Lithium and Moblon, operational updates, future production targets, and the broader impact on the lithium industry. Get insights on market trends, cost management, future plans, and more. CHAPTERS

Interview with Timothy Froude, President & CEO of Sokoman Minerals Corp.Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/sokoman-minerals-tsxvsic-major-2024-drill-program-for-the-next-newfoundland-gold-discovery-5436Recording date: 29th November 2024Sokoman Minerals (TSXV:SIC) is poised for a transformative year in 2025 as it advances its diverse portfolio of gold and lithium projects in mining-friendly Newfoundland, Canada. Despite a challenging market backdrop, the company has positioned itself for success through strategic partnerships, innovative exploration techniques, and a disciplined focus on its core assets.The key catalyst on the horizon is the planned spin-out of the Killick lithium project into a new publicly-traded vehicle, Vinland Lithium. Discovered by Sokoman on one of its gold properties, Killick caught the eye of lithium developer Piedmont Lithium, which has invested to earn a 19.9% stake and committed $12 million in exploration funding over 36 months. With Piedmont's pending merger with Sayona Mining, Vinland will gain access to a broader project pipeline and technical expertise. Sokoman plans to dividend out Vinland shares to its own shareholders upon listing in early 2025.At the flagship Moose Head gold project, Sokoman is embarking on a two-phase bulk sampling program to demonstrate the potential for a high-grade, low-cost operation. The first 1,000 tonne sample will be extracted and processed in Q1, followed by an innovative selective high-grade sample using Nova Mirror technology in Q2.Recent trenching also revealed a previously unknown mineralized vein system in the Western Trend at Moose Head, opening up a new area for exploration in a part of the property unencumbered by water or swampy ground. Follow-up drilling is already underway. Over at the early-stage Fleur de Lys project, Sokoman is targeting Irish-type orogenic gold deposits similar to the 6Moz Curraghinalt deposit in Northern Ireland. Assays are pending from a 23-hole drill program completed in late 2024.With multiple irons in the fire, Sokoman offers investors exposure to both the long-term growth potential of lithium and the security of gold as a hedge against economic uncertainty. As CEO Tim Froude explains, "High-grade nuggety gold vein systems are notorious for trying to nail down, but Moose Head continues to deliver. A deep hole there is a potential game-changer that could happen on the first hole."In a market where many junior explorers are struggling to raise capital and advance their projects, Sokoman stands out as a company with a clear path forward. With the Killick spin-out, bulk samples at Moose Head, and drilling at Fleur de Lys, 2025 is shaping up to be a year of value creation for Sokoman shareholders. While early-stage exploration is inherently risky, the company's track record of attracting strategic partners and deploying cutting-edge technology suggests it is well-equipped to capitalize on the opportunities in front of it. For investors looking for a high-quality explorer with exposure to in-demand metals and near-term catalysts, Sokoman Minerals is a compelling consideration.View Sokoman Minerals' company: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/sokoman-minerals-corpSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

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Interview with Stephen Stares, President & CEO of Benton Resources Inc.Our previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/benton-resources-tsxvbex-raising-funds-drilling-copper-gold-project-5787Recording date: 18th October 2024Benton Resources (TSXV:BEX) is advancing a compelling copper-gold exploration story at its Great Burnt project in Newfoundland, where recent drilling has intersected significant mineralization including 74+ meters at 1.4 g/t gold. The company's systematic approach and understanding of the structural complexity is unlocking value in a historically explored area.The project boasts several key advantages that position it favorably for development:Infrastructure: Located near power facilities with excellent road accessScale: 25 kilometers of prospective stratigraphy containing six known occurrences and three depositsClean footprint: Minimal environmental constraints with no towns, lakes, or rivers directly impacting the ore zonesTechnical approach: Advanced geophysics and new geological modeling improving targeting successIn less than a year of ownership, Benton has completed over 12,000 meters of drilling across three phases, with an additional 3,500 meters currently underway in phase four. The company's exploration strategy differs significantly from historical approaches by targeting compressed sulfide zones using detailed magnetic surveys and structural interpretation.The Great Burnt project features two parallel zones - the East Zone (primarily gold) and the West Zone (primarily copper). While copper mineralization has been identified in two main deposits, the gold horizon extends for nearly 15 kilometers, offering substantial exploration potential. The company aims to delineate a gold resource within the next 12 months, focusing on open-pit potential in the top 50-60 meters.Beyond the flagship project, Benton offers additional value drivers through major shareholding in Clean Air Metals (share price appreciation from 3¢ to 78¢) with 0.5% royalty on Clean Air Metals' deposits, and pending spinout of Vinland Lithium project, backed by Piedmont Lithium. Near-term catalysts include:Ongoing drill results expected within 10 daysContinued systematic testing of the 3-kilometer gold trendVinland Lithium spinout anticipated before year-endExpansion of known copper deposit beyond current 850-meter depthCEO Stephen Stares emphasizes the project's potential: "I rarely see a company that's completed the amount of work that we had with this amount of success so I anticipate that success will continue as we unfold the treasures in this project." The investment opportunity is underpinned by exposure to both precious and base metals in a tier-one jurisdiction, with regular news flow expected from ongoing drilling. The systematic exploration approach, combined with strategic assets and near-term catalysts, positions Benton as a noteworthy junior explorer in the current market.The company's focus on open-pit potential in the initial 50-60 meters demonstrates a practical approach to future development scenarios, while deeper exploration success could provide additional upside. With multiple work programs underway and a clear path toward resource delineation, investors have several opportunities to assess and participate in the company's development trajectory.View Benton Resources' company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/benton-resources-incSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

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Welcome to a podcast where we peel back the layers of deception to reveal the truths lurking beneath the surface. Join host Austin Adams as he delves into the most controversial and pressing issues of our time, challenging the mainstream narrative and sparking thought-provoking discussions. From Engineered Disasters to Global Conflict In this gripping episode, we explore the dark theory behind hurricane Helene being a directed hurricane to target lithium-rich regions. Is there a hidden agenda to manipulate natural disasters for corporate gain? We investigate the evidence and discuss the implications of such practices on vulnerable communities. War on the Horizon As tensions escalate globally, we dissect the recent attack on Israel by Iran, examining its origins and potential consequences. How might these conflicts draw the United States into another protracted war? We analyze the geopolitical landscape and what it means for international relations and security. A Strike That Could Cripple America Turning our attention homeward, we delve into the longshoremen's strike that threatens to shut down America's ports. We discuss how this could cripple the U.S. economy, leading to shortages, price hikes, and widespread disruption. What are the demands, and is there a resolution in sight? Join the Conversation Don't miss out on these critical discussions that mainstream media won't cover. Subscribe now to stay informed and empowered. Follow us on YouTube, Substack, and social media for exclusive content, updates, and more. Thank You for Your Support We appreciate your commitment to seeking the truth and supporting independent journalism. Your engagement makes all the difference. All the Links For easy access to all our content and platforms, visit: https://linktr.ee/theaustinjadams     ----more---- Full Transcription        Hello, you beautiful people and welcome to the Adams archive. My name is Austin Adams and thank you so much for listening today. On today's episode, we are going to be diving deep into some really serious catastrophic situations that have occurred over the past couple of weeks here. The first one being the terrible and horrific Hurricane Helene that has hit several states and just decimated, absolutely decimated the communities there. It's horrible. It's terrible to see. There's All of these videos of people that are stranded on top of buildings. There's firefighters telling people not to go rescue them because it's too dangerous. It is horrible.  On top of that, there's also some speculation and skepticism  similar to what there was in Lahaina  where people don't believe that this hurricane Was as natural as it appeared not the production of it But the path of it and you might be thinking well, that's crazy We can't move hurricanes and what I would say to that is listen to the full episode because maybe you'll change your mind  The second thing that we're going to discuss is going to be will briefly touch on the vice presidential debate. That was just a  Eight hours ago now. We will talk about that, some of the key moments. We won't take too much time on that, but I did wanna just highlight a couple things. And that will be at the end actually, I believe so. Other than that, we will also talk about the seaport strike that is going on,  which could heavily affect  the United States production and ability to provide food.  to provide gas to provide everything and anything that you purchase comes through one of these seaports. Now, these workers are on strike for several reasons, mostly contract negotiations, but also they are hesitant or frustrated that the opportunity of the organization that they're working for utilizing automation.  I have my own opinions about it. I do see their point, but we'll talk about it.  And we'll also talk about what this could possibly do to you and your family and maybe what you can do to get prepared.  Then we will talk about Iran striking Israel  in a  act of what could turn into a very high escalating, , tensions between several countries, including the United States, potentially getting involved as we have had several officials say that we will.  Retaliate on their behalf, which is terrifying.  Alright, all of that and more, but first, go ahead and hit the subscribe button. Leave a five star review.  And if you'd like, go ahead and check out my company, Ronin Basics. Ronin Basics is a Faraday goods company, and we provide several different products that protect you from the modern threats out there in society today. Everything from EMFs, which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has talked about at length  more recently,  to the Privacy intrusions that are going on between your cell phone, your laptop, every device in your house that has a microphone, tracking GPS, all of those things. So with the EMF side of things, we have EMF blocking Faraday hats. We have beanies and we have phone sleeves that will be in, in just a couple of days. They look just like this. You. Put your phone inside of this beautiful magnetic area here. Slide your phone inside of there. It will eliminate all inbound and outbound signals from your cell phone. All right, now go check out the website. I just did a ton of work getting it updated. I'm very happy with it. So if you've seen it before, go see it again, cause it's way better.  , so go check it out. Appreciate you. Love you. Without further ado, let's jump  into it.   All right. So the very first thing that we're going to talk about today is going to be the horrific hurricane that happened in North Carolina, Tennessee. It is spread across several states, which seems a little unnatural to me. I don't know when the last time there was a hurricane in Tennessee.  Can you remember that? I don't know. Maybe we should ask chat GPT, our  knowledge overlord, what's going on there. So we'll go ahead and take a look at this. There's a tweet that I think really captured all of the damage. So if you're watching here on YouTube, you can actually take a look with me. And if you're not, I will talk you through it. So there is some horrific situations going on and this captures. It in detail. It's just a minute long. So if you're listening  stay with me here, but obviously what this says, I don't know why that's obvious if you're not looking at it The hurricane helene death toll has risen to over a hundred and thirty survivors  Has the death toll has risen to over 130 as survivors. That makes more sense in Western North Carolina. Describe seeing bodies stuck in trees.  Locals are describing the pop apocalyptic scenes on the ground. As the official death toll continues to climb, there were bodies in the trees. They are finding bodies under the rubble. Said local woman, Alyssa Hudson, according to the New York post. Hudson explained how she made it out of her house before it collapsed. Her friends in downtown Black Mountain describe seeing bodies floating in ditches and residents fighting against the rising tide. We were a mountain town, but now we look like a farm town. It's all destroyed. A lot of people won't be back. The total damage from Hurricane Helene is currently projected to be about $34 billion according to Fox.  The following footage was shared by Severe Forecast at Biltmore Village not far from Black Mountain. And here is that video.  Make sure I don't blast you with hurricane sounds.  So there's cars just stuck up in trees.  Restaurants decimated.  One thing that I had seen when I was watching some of these horrible videos was that there was towns that were almost completely under rubble. Almost completely under these landslides that just went above the highest building. And where there used to be a town, there's literally nothing. Nothing. Now could you imagine if this is your city? If your family member is there?  How terrifying. And they're, and they don't have cell phone service. You can't reach them.  You can't know that they're okay.  Now, this isn't the worst of it. I've seen some re some terrible videos.  And guess what? In these videos, there's nobody from the government scene. Nobody, not a single person.  The national guard. Isn't there helping people?  Guess where they are? They're like overseas right now. The National Guard, the same people that are supposed to be here helping our citizens are not here. They're in other places across the world helping other people.  Now speaking of that, one thing that's been frustrating, and I'm sure you can dive into the damage of this Hurricane Helene, and my heart goes out to all of these families. I can't imagine. Even just losing your town, your house, your history of your family,  let alone the amount of people that we're going to find out that are dead as a result of this. It's terrible.  Now there's a few  political plays going on here, which again, is disgusting shouldn't be about that. It should be about helping these citizens.  And one thing that happened was that Kamala Harris was as she's always been. Kamala Harris was dead silent about the hurricane, dead silent about the families that were stranded on top of these buildings, dead silent about the damage that occurred.  Then,  they had the nerve, yesterday,  to come onto the TV, during an interview, at the White House,  and tell the citizens  that they were going, they're going to give the citizens that 1. 3 million dollars, total, combined. For Now, one of the journalists in the audience goes, Billion or million?  And he says, no, no million. 1. 7.  I think it even might be 1. 3. 1.  7 million dollars. Let's be generous here. And just say that it's 1. 7.  That's two houses that got taken out.  They're claiming they're going to use this for 750 dollars to the citizens that are affected. How far does 750 dollars get you in Kamala's mind?  economy.  How far?  Maybe a tank of gas  and a week's worth of food.  Now, one thing they don't seem to consider because they're saying that it's going to be a direct deposit is that the people that are highly affected by this don't even have access to their bank,  don't have access to a grocery store around them,  don't have access to even get gas. There's reports that came in that there was a gas station, one gas station that was in this mountain town where everybody was trying to get out of. And it was empty within hours of people showing up there  and now everybody else is stranded.  I cannot believe the response to this 1. 7 million,  750. If you got affected by this in the same week that we gave Ukraine 8 billion, Kamala  and Joe Biden have now said, they're going to give the citizens of Ukraine. That are affected by the hurricane 1. 7 million 1. 7 million how disgusting of a response. Don't even say that don't even mention the 1. 7 million dollars.  It's a slap in the face to everybody that has been affected by this atrocity. And then speaking about that Kamala three to four days after  three to four days after the hurricane  posted a photo about a briefing about Hurricane Helene.  And one thing that was noticed about this photo.  Is that she's claiming that she's on her airplane. I was just briefed at FEMA by FEMA, Deanne Criswell on the latest developments about the ongoing impacts of hurricane Helene.  We all discussed our administration's continued actions to support emergency response and recovery. I also spoke With North Carolina Governor Cooper about the ongoing rescue and recovery efforts in North Carolina, our administration will continue to stay in constant contact with state and local officials  to ensure communities have the support and resources they need.  Doug and my thoughts are with all those who lost loved ones and those whose homes, businesses, and communities were damaged or destroyed during this disaster.  Now, one thing that you'll notice about this photo, there's a few things going on here. One, she's writing on a piece of paper, a piece of paper that appears to be empty,  appears to be an empty piece of paper.  Yeah, looks pretty empty to me. Number two,  she's wearing headphones.  She's wearing headphones that are not plugged in.  Now, Donald Trump  loved pointing this out,  where he said,  Another fake and staged photo from someone who has no clue what she is doing. You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work.  Biden and Harris abandoned Americans in Afghanistan. They sacrificed Americans to an open border, and now they have left Americans to drown in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and elsewhere in the South.  Under this administration, Americans always come last because we have leaders who have no idea how to lead.  Now, when you went and saw the news articles about this,  they were criticizing Trump  for making this accusation. Not criticizing Kamala for faking her image,  for faking caring about these families,  but they're criticizing Trump, of course, for even having the audacity to accuse her of this.  Let's see if I can find that video  of the white house saying they're going to give 1. 3 million.  Let's see if I'm right on 7,  because I'm interested  to families affected.  This was like late yesterday,  the 1st of October.  Let's see.  Statement from Harris  news briefing as Biden responds. Let's  see.  All right. And here it is. Let me go ahead and pull this up for you.  Took a second to find that. Right here is the White House briefing.  And the reporter asks this question here.  And this is where the 1. 7 million comes from.  Hopefully you anticipate getting to some of those areas that have been cut off. Oh, not  to that.  Here we go. Not just by land, but by air as well. And how quickly do you anticipate getting to some of those areas that have been cut off because of the roads being cut off? As quickly as we can.  No answer. Go ahead, Jeff. Thank you, Karine. Mr. Secretary, do you have a sense of how much money it's going to cost, A, to do this relief effort And B, to do the rebuild effort once we get there and how much of that will be covered by insurance companies and how much will be covered by the government. So this is a multi billion dollar undertaking. In terms of the search and rescue and the response, I should note that we already Approximately 1. 7 million in individual assistance that individuals million that individuals will be able to access. I believe it'll be as early as tomorrow. It is a direct deposit into their accounts, but the rebuilding Did you catch that 1. 7 million to these people and they've the journalists. These paid journalists who are shills for the government thought that was so ridiculous, they didn't even register it. And one person goes billion, right? Billion? You're giving 1. 7 billion to those affected by Helene. And he goes no.  Million.  What the fuck are they gonna do with $1.7 million? Let's say there's a hundred thousand families that are affected, and that's very low. There's so many people that are affected by this. Let's probably a million, right? You're gonna give 'em $1.30, $1.70 a dollar in 7 cents, 70 cents,  $1.7 million to those affected, and they'll have it in their accounts deposited as soon as possible. As soon as possibly tomorrow they'll get a $2. What is a million dollars going to do for all of these people affected? And again, the same week that we gave Ukraine 8 billion, the same week, 7 billion to Israel, the same exact week, this man walks up onto that stage and says, don't worry, guys, we're giving our citizens 1. 3 million.  That's going to get, what is everybody going to do? They're going to go to the corner store, walk up to the corner store and get themselves a Gatorade. Hey guys, a refreshment on us. Thanks.  What a slap in the face. Just don't even mention that. Don't mention that figure. 1. 7 million  to hundreds of thousands, millions of citizens that have been, had their families decimated. They've lost all of their livestock. Their family members have been killed.  And you're going to give them 1. 7 million collectively to help out.  Do you want to know who's given more money to this? Their own citizens of the United States. There is a GoFundMe  that was started. And I just let's watch this one more time. So you can hear just how ridiculous this is. And I want to see what the response is of the journalists. Cause they should probably call him out on that, right? You would assume. Note that we already have approved approximately 1. 7 million dollars in individual assistance that individuals million that individuals will be able to access. I believe it'll be as early as tomorrow. It is a direct deposit into their accounts. But the Rebuilding is something that is not for today, but that is going to be extraordinarily costly and it's going to be a multi year enterprise. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Secretary. Two questions. First, about the President's decision to go to Raleigh. Can you give us a little bit of a breakdown as to why he's going to that location, and what he will see, and whether or not he'll be able to see any of the Alright, so literally no response by these propagandists in the audience.  Not even Peter Doocy said something about this. Maybe he was the one that said billion.  Crazy, literally makes no sense.  So 1. 7 million from our own government to these affected citizens from Hurricane Helene. Donald Trump posted this GoFundMe, and there's 3. 7  million, more than doubling the amount that the government's giving out.  3. 7 million by the citizens of the United States that are giving their own money.  And people here,  like Stephen Wyckoff, I believe he's a former senator. I  saw that one, one former senator had Donated about five hundred thousand dollars. So that may be who that was. Let's  okay. So Senator Kelly Lafleur, not sure who this Stephen Wittkoff is, but that's very nice Dana White has given a hundred thousand dollars William Ackman a hundred thousand dollars Bass Pro Shops a hundred thousand dollars Dan Newlin a hundred thousand dollars Christopher Drummond You 25, 000. Kid Rock, 25, 000. That is amazing.  And here our government is sending billions to Ukraine and wants to send 1. 7 million. I cannot stress how frustrating that is enough.  1. 7 million to those affected, those decimated, those family members that were killed. Kamala's on a frickin airplane with airpods that aren't plugged in taking a propaganda photo to send it out.  Donald Trump posted a GoFundMe and gets more than double what the entire government is collectively giving those citizens. . 1.7 million dollars. That's how much they care about you.  I wonder why they're giving 8 billion the same week that they're giving American citizens 1. 7 million. I wonder why. Maybe it's because the citizens that they're going to give that money to aren't going to funnel it back to them. Aren't funding their campaigns. They don't care about the voters.  They do not care about the voters. They do not care about the American public. They care about being elected and more power,  which is why they'll send 8 billion to Ukraine the same week that they spend 1. 7 million to our citizens that were obliterated in a hurricane. But thank God, there's people out there donating to this. So I highly recommend it. It is GoFundMe. com slash support dash hurricane dash Helene dash victims slash GoFundMe. Dash with dash president dash 3.  7 million.  Incredible. Now there's some speculation here,  some speculation around the idea that maybe, just maybe this hurricane wasn't as  natural as it seemed,  as it appeared.  There's some speculation that maybe, just maybe, just like there was in Lahaina, there's some questions around why.  Why this targeted this specific area the way that it did  let's say targeted let's use that word loosely in terms of a natural disaster But if this is true targeted is the right word  the idea  Comes from the fact that some of the towns that were the most decimated in these cities that were affected by this hurricane are also under contract with Blackrock and Vanguard  For lithium mining, liquid gold, the thing that is the next great endeavor for our  humanity,  the most valuable substance today, when it comes to things like electric vehicles, when it comes to things like AI,  these small towns were fighting back against this contract proposed to sell their land for lithium, right? Go back to Lahaina, right? Go back to Lahaina.  He had all these front beachfront properties.  That we're trying to get pushed out by big money from black rock, big money from Vanguard. And they didn't want to sell. That was their property. That was their family's property. That's where their grandparents lived. They're not moving  right. Cue the Wolf of wall street. I ain't leaving. Then  it just so happens within the year before they're supposed to start this lithium mining while also the citizens aren't selling their property.  The entire town gets  obliterated by Hurricane Helene.  You might say, that's a coincidence, Austin. Stop looking for strings where there are none. Tying these two things together. And I would say, I believe you. I agree with you. Until I saw some of these videos and some of the evidence surrounding how they have, since 1947, we have been able to steer hurricanes.  This is a technology that has existed for almost a hundred years.  We're going to watch a video that explains all of that.  But I would just say to you, how many things have we been right about? How many things? Now, it doesn't mean we're going to be right about everything. And it doesn't mean that we shouldn't have skepticism around all of these claims.  But when there's evidence, very specific evidence, just like they tried to gaslight you and tell you that the the  weapons that they used those laser based weapons,  right? The direct energy weapons aren't real. And then I sat here in front of you and showed you video after video of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon boasting about this technology.  Then I show you video after video about how they can start fires with that technology, videos after videos  of all they need to do is put a really high altitude airplane over top of this location and boom, billions of dollars.  How much is a life worth to these companies?  How much is a life worth?  How much, how far would they be willing to go? What's the price tag per head that they're willing to kill  or have die in a natural disaster so that they can make their profits? What's the price tag? Do you think it's 20 grand? Probably not a 10 grand,  five grand.  There's gotta be a calculation just like there is in the auto industry, right? If the amount of fatalities. And the cost for the litigation does not exceed a certain amount per car. They don't update the vehicles. They don't do a recall.  If they calculate go back and watch fight club. It's a great scene about this.  If they calculate  that the amount of litigation that's going to come as the result of not recalling it exceeds the cost. of doing the recall itself, then they will recall it.  Now reverse that. If the amount of damage, the amount of costs, that's going to be the result of a natural disaster like this,  If the amount of profit exceeds what the cost would be  in terms of loss of public trust, in terms of how much they have to pay for Facebook and Instagram and YouTube to censor these topics, like they did with direct energy weapons.  If the amount of that does not, the cost does not exceed the profit. They will move forward. They do not care. It isn't a LLC. It is an entity. It is a corporation, which does not have a moral compass. The only compass it has is how do we continue to have growth year after year regardless of how much  Destruction we leave in our wake. They do not care They want to sit in their high towers the top of the castle  while the peasants are at the bottom drowning in the water that they brought there  So let's watch this video and see if with you think  or at least have any idea The  eyebrow raises that I do. This comes from Greg Reese.  We have had the technology to create control and steer hurricanes for decades.  Project Cirrus is the first official attempt to modify a hurricane. It was run by General Electric with the support of the U S military. The official theory.  Project Syrus, C Y R U S, 1947,  was the first time that there was a concerted effort  to steer a hurricane.  Now it says,  President Lyndon B. Johnson, Southwest Texas State University, 1962 said, let's see if we can get the full quote here, I'm not sure if it gives it all to us and ultimately to control the weather and he who controls the weather will control the world.  He who controls the weather controls the world. Lyndon B. Johnson, 1962 at the Southwest Texas State University.  Okay,  let's move on. Project Cirrus. Project Cirrus is the fir Now, there's a news article that is the Daily News. It says, Destroying a Hurricane. This is from 1947,  September 17th.  This is from the Daily News, the 17th year, Charlotte, O'Malley, Virgin Islands. The destroying a hurricane, the energy expended by a tropical hurricane is enough to drive all the machinery in the world for three or four years. Yet the army, the Navy, and the general electric company are collaborating in a daring meteorological  experiment, which is to determine whether or not the colossal.  that we call a hurricane can be broken by making it precipitate the thousands of  cuts off. I assumed water, right? If the older attempts at rainmaking came to nothing, it is because it is not known how the raindrops are created. Some years ago, it was discovered that unless there is a nucleus, something around which, A moisture can wrap itself. There is can be neither snowflakes nor droplets. The rest now seems simple. Little seeds of carbon dioxide, snow scattered from a plane, serve as much. Nuclei.  Okay. 1947. There's your article. First official attempt to modify a hurricane. It was run by General Electric with the support of the US military 1947. The official theory was that by changing the temperature. Outside the eyewall of a hurricane, which they did by seeding the clouds with various compounds such as silver iodide, a decrease in strong winds will result on October 13th, 1947 Project Cirrus targeted a hurricane heading out to sea.  This says Project Cirrus, first hurricane cloud seeding experiment. The cyclone was historically significant in that it was the first tropical cyclone to be modified as part of a multi year operation called Project Cirrus. In 1946, General Electric scientists concluded that experimentation that dry ice seeding could induce heavy rainfall and thus ultimately weaken storms by cooling temperatures in the eye. To undertake Project Cirrus, General Electric, the United States Army, the Office of Naval Research, and the U. S. Weather Bureau functioned jointly on research and planning. Early on October 13th, 1947, 200 pounds of dry ice were dropped through the storm, then located about 350 miles east of Jacksonville, Florida. While the appearance of the clouds changed, the initial results of the seeding were inconclusive.  Shortly after the seeding took place, the hurricane turned sharply towards the southeastern United States. While the move the leading General Electric scientists later blamed upon the seeding, subsequent examination of the environment surrounding the storm determined that a large upper level ridge was in fact responsible for the abrupt turn.  Of course it was, because then hundreds and people died as a result of your experiment. You're not gonna admit that. Are you? Especially if you're the government.  Now you have to ask yourself, is this the government doing this? Is the government going in there and manipulating these hurricanes to move this closer to this area where they want  the people that funded them to go in and be able to take this lithium? I don't think that's the case, right? This is all speculation, by the way.  Maybe I'm making stuff up here.  Go do the research yourself. But what I would say is it doesn't have to be that it doesn't have to be this big governmental experiment. It doesn't have to be that it has to be four or five executives paying a small team of pilots that, that all go from Blackrock in their private jets  and just so happened to fly directly through a hurricane, by the way, just remembering  There was a pilot that drove  directly through the hurricane. Directly through. I'll see if I can find that for you.  Give me one second.  Alright.  Here is the plane  that flew directly through the hurricane. November 610 Foxtrot Papa.  Now, you can go do research on what that is. Some people are saying that it's an aerial photography company.  Who cares? It's an airplane flying directly through a hurricane. Who does that? Why would you do that?  Maybe they don't even have people doing this. Maybe it's a drone.  They don't need people with stories to tell, and jobs to lose, and indictments to be had to be doing this. They need five to seven executives and two people to pay somebody to fly a drone through this and drop that dry ice or whatever it is that they're doing now 85 years later.  It doesn't have to be this big government conspiracy. It could be five executives wanting to get their fucking lithium out of that city.  And so they pay somebody to fly through it. They pay them to drop this cloud seeding. And then all of the sudden, it decimates Tennessee?  Tennessee? When was the last time a hurricane hit Tennessee?  And then again, radio silence for days by the news. Why is the news not talking about this with the severity of it? Remember New Orleans? Remember Hurricane Katrina?  Everything shut down. They were raising, we were donating in high school, middle school, elementary school.  All over the country was united. And now with this, radio silence. For days. The only reason any of us knew about this. For three days. Was because of social media.  Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. Okay, so there's your airplane, November 610, Foxtrot Papa. Go do some research on it. I don't have the time today to do it. But go check it out for yourself. Maybe I'm wrong.  They definitely flew through this hurricane.  I wonder why.  So all they have to do is fly one airplane through this hurricane, drop this cloud seating, and then all of the sudden,  all of the sudden,  you have a hurricane taking a sharp left turn when it wouldn't have otherwise. Here you go.  Approximately 180 pounds of dry ice was dropped into the clouds. The crew then reported a pronounced modification of the cloud deck, and the hurricane abruptly changed direction and made landfall.  Alright, I just wanted to read this for you because this is the actual facts, he's giving a narrative around it, which is great, but this is the article. October 13th, 1947, a disaster with Project Cirrus. What happened next was the worst case scenario. Instead of dissipating, the storm furiously swung nearly 130 degrees to the west. Very similar as it did with Helene. And smash in the Georgia where it caused $2 million worth of damage. Threats of lawsuits soon followed with Georgia residents Blaming the government in 1947 for the hurricane devastation Project Serious was all but shut down before it truly began, and any research into weather manipulation was re Reddit. Re  reputated Repe Repudiated  . R-E-P-U-D-I-T-E-D. Repu, repudiated, it's a weird word for decades.  All near Savannah, Georgia,  the public blamed the government  Irving Langmuir who pioneered General Electric's atmospheric research department and admitted that the project was about learning how to weaponize the weather. Also claimed the reversal of the hurricane had been caused by Project Cirrus, but the government denied it for 12 years. After a short delay, the project.  Okay, again. Let's go back, he's telling the narrative, but there's facts up on the screen for you. And what this said,  if we can go back, let's see here.  And I do want to tell you the source here, this is Gregory's he's a InfoWars submission guy, like he does a lot of their great videos.  Listen to the narrative, don't listen to the narrative, look up these newspapers. Don't take my word for it.  Don't take his word for it. Go find these newspapers. The Lincoln Journal Star, Sunday, May 1st, 1955. Hurricane seeding. Langmuir and cloud seeding during Project Cirrus in the New Mexico Desert was conducted at regular weekly intervals and Midwest rain begins to fall weekly too. The scientist described another test in October of 1947 where It's he said a hurricane was seeded. It changed course, hitting the city of Savannah, Georgia, doing heavy damage. So that was him admitting that was a cause of that hurricane.  Let's move on. This is the story 12 years after a short delay, the project officially continued and in 1965 Project Storm Fury had targeted Hurricane Betsy for seeding on that day. The storm immediately changed direction and made landfall in southern Florida.  This comes from the Liberty Beacon says yes, the government has experimented with controlling hurricanes. Hurricane Betsy was building strength. It looked like it was aiming for South Carolina, posing no threat to South Florida. But on Saturday, September 4th, the storm whirled to a stop  about 350 miles east of Jackson when Betsy started moving again on Sunday. She had changed directions. The storm plowed through the Bahamas Monday night, then mauled Florida. Or South Florida. A day later, Florida Congress blamed it on Project Storm Fury, but the government claimed that the hurricane shifted before they ever had a chance to seed it. And after two months of congressional hearings, the project was allowed to continue.  In 1997, US Defense Secretary William Cohen, admitted we have the technology to control the weather.  Okay, this comes from DODs News, defense Briefing United States. Department of Defense website January 15th, 2006. It's an article from 2000 or 1997  and it says Cohen's keynote address to the Congress on terror or conference on terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and us strategy at the Georgia center. Mahler auditorium, university of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. The event is a part of the Sam Nunn policy forum being hosted by the university of Georgia. Senator Nunn. Thank you very much. As Senator Nunn has. And indicated he and I have worked for many years along the Senator Lugar. The two of these gentlemen, I feel perhaps the most courageous and visionary have served in the Senate. Let's see if it actually goes into Including earthquakes and volcanoes.  Says Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen. Monday, April 28th, 8 45 a. m. It says Tuffler has written about these, this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories,  Different things. Trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific. Ooh, imagine that. So they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races, and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco type of terrorism, where they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes  remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. The U. S. government has placed gag orders on employees of the National Weather Service. In October of 2012, after Hurricane Sandy weakened to a tropical storm, microwave imagery shows a thick red beam.  Now this says that you can the website for this is morphedintegratedmicrowaveimagery.  com C-I-M-S-S version one. The hurricane in the time of this type of energy was 2012 October 27th.  And you can go look for that yourself, but there is this red wave that goes directly at the hurricane  that is going away is dissipating. Then all of a sudden, immediately followed by Sandy growing into a category one hurricane and taking an unexplained left turn into New Jersey.  The push towards alternative energy demands more lithium and according to the US Geological Survey. The United States has over six million tons of identified lithium resources. The majority of this lithium has been identified in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Kings Mountain is believed to have one of the largest resources in the world, but the biggest problem is that people live there and they don't want their quiet towns turned into lithium mines. People in Cherryville have been pushing against a proposed lithium mine for the last several years, but everyone we spoke with here said it's too divisive of an issue to share their opinion on camera.  Cherryville is a small, quiet town. I think that's good that we keep it small. so quiet. Many don't feel comfortable speaking out against Piedmont Lithium's proposed mining operation nearby. I think we're a silent majority.  I think a lot of people are afraid to say anything about it because they are bringing a lot to the town as far as money. Last year, the Department of Defense entered a 90 million agreement. Okay, DOD enters agreement to expand domestic lithium mining for U. S. battery supply chains. The 90 million agreement entered into the Defense Production Act, Title III authorities, and utilizing funds appropriately by the Inflation Reduction Act will help support Abler Marley's planned reopening of the Kings Mountain, North Carolina, lithium mine to increase domestic production of lithium for the nation's battery supply chain.  Estimates that Kings Mountain will be operational between 2025 and 2030. With Alba Marley Corporation to increase domestic production of lithium for the nation's battery supply chain,  specifically from Kings Mountain, North Carolina, starting by 2025.  This is the same area experiencing what is being described as biblical floods.  While the federal government spends billions on foreign wars and illegal immigrants, they simply cannot be bothered with the health and well being of the American people, especially those living on coveted mineral rich land.  Reporting for InfoWars, this is Greg Reese.  The family's devastation there.  So I think You have three questions to ask yourself about this hurricane and this conspiracy.  Can they do it?  Can they do it? Now we know the answer is yes.  Would they do it? If there's enough money involved, we know absolutely they would do it. Check. Did they do it?  That's the question that needs to be answered, but the first two are answered 100%. Can they do it? Yes. They can manipulate the weather and specifically hurricanes to make this type of movement inward towards shore. They can manipulate it to go where they want it to go, at least in some sense, right? The accuracy of that moving, but it obliterated almost, a fifth of the country towards that lower area.  So can they do it? Yes. Yes.  Would they do it if the price tag is high enough? Yes, absolutely. We know that Blackrock and Vanguard will go to any lengths to make profits.  Did they do it?  I'll leave that one to you. And maybe we'll see some type of evidence that comes out more here in the near future.  So  let's see if there's anything else on that. And then we will move on to the next topic. All right. So there's several people talking about this. There's several clips that have gone. Quote unquote viral about this. And here are some of  those. Let's see if we can  pull it up here.  All right.  This is the one that I probably found to be the best. I'll tell you what I find suspicious as shit, that one of the areas affected by hurricane Helene is the world's largest lithium deposit. And the DOD just entered into an agreement with this company right here to mine lithium for electric cars. Starting in 2025. Now that area is completely devastated. This is a 90 million agreement between the D. O. D. And this company right here to get Kings Mountain North Carolina lithium mine up and running by 2030. If that area has been inundated, it's in a disaster zone. then the government can come in and do eminent domain and they can pay you what it was worth five years ago rather than what it's worth right now. Imagine that your home has turned into a watery lot and the government comes to you and says, Hey, I'll pay you what you paid for it. You're going to take it and you're going to go, right? What do you think is going to happen right here now that they want this lithium mine up and running by 2025 2030 at the latest? Back in 1947 we had the Florida Georgia hurricane or hurricane nine and it was the first hurricane to be targeted for weather modification. What happened was General Electric said, The U. S. Navy, the Army, the Air Force, they poured dry ice into this hurricane using airplanes to see what would happen. Would they slow it down? What happened was it slowed down a little bit, but it turned west really sharp. Let me show you. This is the path that the hurricane took in 1947. Does it look similar to you? Probably not. It's a coincidence, right? Moving on. I'm sure this is just another coincidence, but do you know who owns the most shares in that lithium mine? BlackRock and Vanguard.  Yep, so everything I just told you just from her voice.  Now, the one thing that's interesting about that is the imminent domain conversation, which is the fact that was brought up when it came to Lahaina too. If this is a devastated land, the government can basically take control of that land, claim an imminent domain, pay out those people for that, not based on what is the mineral rich underneath that, the amount of materials that they can siphon from it, which would be the fair market value. But,  what they paid for it five years ago, before this contract was even entered, and before they even knew that there was lithium there.  Sounds like a good reason, and motivating enough for them. To me. Okay.  Let's move on here. But let's touch on this first. Remember that one time where Kamala said that disaster relief should be based on equity?  Also an interesting thing to note. Yeah, remember we talked about that before. I forget the, which hurricane was that. That was for Hurricane Ian. She said that, and here it is.  Oh, shit.  Let's see if we can get it to play from right here. Here we go. It is our lowest income communities and our communities of color that are most impacted and most impacted.  By these extreme conditions and impacted by issues that are not of their own making. And so when  Absolutely. And women. Yeah. And so we have to address this in a way that is about giving resources based on equity, understanding that we fight for equality, but we also need to fight for equity, understanding not everyone starts out at the same place. Yeah. Marxism. And if we want people to drown based on their income. Sometimes we have to take into account those disparities. And do that work. Yeah. Yeah.  That could be your next president, folks.  Alright, now that leads us to our next discussion.  which is about the longshoremen.  I think it was called the portshoremen. Not terribly inaccurate, but also not true. The longshoremen, international longshoremen's association. All right. This guy  is the one kind of leading  the discussion. I  believe he might be like the president of the union or something like that. I'm sure we'll find out in just a moment, but Very chilling words. And if you're an American citizen, this should frustrate the hell out of you, right? All of these unions, these strikes, these, all of this, look, I get it. You have to negotiate for fair wages and there's a certain way to go about that. And having a union is. If you're somebody who works in this type of job, and you also want to decimate the economy for a 50 percent raise on your 150, 000 salary. Now, I'm not saying these guys don't deserve that type of money. I'm not saying that they're in the complete wrong here in terms of making the strike, but understanding what could be the potential outcome for this as a result.  It's pretty terrifying too. Now, maybe you'd put that back onto the longshoremen the organizations that they work for and say, Hey, maybe you should pay them more. Maybe you should stop the automation. We'll talk about all of that, which is the reasons why they actually are going on this type of strike.  Let's go ahead and watch.  But  today's world, it's changing into the future. They're not making millions no more. They're making billions and they're spending it fast as they make it. I want a piece of that for my men because when they made their most money was during COVID. When my men had to go through Go to work on those peers every single day when everybody stayed home and went to work, not my men,  they died out there with the virus. We all got sick with the virus. We kept them going  from Canada, the main of Texas, Great Lakes, Puerto Rico. Now the Bahamas, everybody went to work during COVID. Nobody stayed home.  I want to be compensated for that.  I'm not asking for the world. They know what I want.  They know what they want. And if they don't then I have to go into the street and we have to fight for what we rightfully deserve. These people today don't know what a strike is. When my men hit the  from Maine to Texas. Every single port, a lockdown,  what's going to happen. I'll tell you. First week  be all over the news every night. Boom, boom. Second week  guys who sell cars can't sell cars because the cars ain't coming in off the ships.  They get laid off. Third week  mall starts. closing down. They can't get the goods from China. They can't sell clothes. They can't do this. Everything in the United States comes on a ship. They go out of business. Construction workers get laid off because the materials aren't coming in. The steel is not coming in. The lumber is not coming in.  They lose their job. Everybody's hating the longshoremen now because now they realize how important Our jobs are. Now I have the president screaming at me. I'm putting a Taft Hartley on you. Go ahead.  Taft Hartley means I have to go back to work for 90 days. That's a cooling off period.  Do you think when I go back for 90 days, those men are going to go to work on that pier? It's going to cost the money, the company's money, to pay their salaries it went from 30 moves an hour, maybe to eight.  They're going to be like this.  Who's going to win here in the long run? You're better off sitting down, and let's get a contract, and let's move on with this world. And in today's world, I'll cripple you.  I will cripple you, and you will have no idea what that means. Nobody does.  I love the nice music at the end there. I will cripple you, not I will cripple you, the longshoreman's associate or the organizations that they work for. No, I will cripple the men and women. He even said it in there. I will cripple the car salesman. I will cripple the small business owners. I will cripple the American family trying to get food to their table.  Right now you want to talk about what they're trying to negotiate here, what they want out of this strike.  They want a five year. A five year 50 percent raise. They currently make about 150, 000. They want a five year 50 percent raise 10 percent every year for the next five years.  The other part of this was about automation.  They want to have the companies that they work for stop using automation. Apparently on the previous contract that they utilized, and this comes from a video I watched, I haven't validated the contracts, but allegedly  they want it. The organizations that they work for to promise. They won't use AI promise. They won't use automation promise that they won't take their jobs eventually over time. Like every other industry is dealing with the same thing that we have saw with the writer's strike,  right? How long did it take for them to come to an agreement? Almost a year. It was like eight months, maybe even longer, right?  That's why all the movies sucked for all of last year. So  the question is what's going to come from this, right? And what is the expectation here? Yeah. If you don't move with the times, you're going to expect them to just never use automation, never use AI. And if they do, you're all going to quit.  Doesn't that just  Speed up the use of automation.  China's already doing this. China is already all of their longshoremen, all of their seaports that are taking in all of their goods or shipping it more than likely, if you're in China, all of those are already automated. There's videos out there that you can watch right now. These guys that sit behind the computer and they're working nine to 10 screens, all telling these vehicles where to go and what to pick up and how to move it and all this stuff. So they're hyper efficient compared to what we're doing. How do you expect it to not move that direction? And you're just going to sit on your butt and go, okay,  don't do it. Or I'm going to, I'm not going to work. What is the expectation here? And how is that a solution to the problem? Why not develop a strategic agreement or Alliance or profit sharing agreement that if there is automation, that there is a longstanding percentage of that automation profitability that goes towards retirement funds,  there's one solution. Why not?  Go build out the automation themselves. Why not start a company that then has the ability to, or it has the foresight to  service the vehicles, right? If you have a contract on any of these automations that are then in the future, the first right to contract for the, that money. goes to any previous longshoreman, right? So any of the automation that is being built, any of the maintenance that is being done, any of the assistance that needs to happen on the ports, all of that business immediately goes to the people who were previously hired as longshoremen. Maybe that's their agreement, but the idea that there's just never going to utilize automation and you're just going to outlast technology is just silly. So come to a better agreement,  figure it out in a way that's actually useful because this is not.  These guys are going to cripple the American economy. So let's get some context here. This article comes from ConstructionDive. com, and it says, work stoppages across east and west east and Gulf Coast ports may cause product shortages, price hikes, and delivery issues, construction experts say.  This was published yesterday, October 1st, 2024. It says, as the International Longshoremen's Association went on strike this morning over a new master contract, construction pros across the country are waiting to see how the walkout. which affects ports from Texas to Maine will impact their businesses. The ILA's talks with the United States Maritime Alliance broke down over wages and a total ban on the automation of machinery important to dock work, including cranes, gates, and container moving trucks. According to the Associated Press,  the strike is the first by the union since 1977.  The impacted reports are some of the main points of entry for construction materials, heavy machinery, food, vehicles, chemicals, according to the Wall Street Journal. Material delivery delays could also incur in other regions of the country, according to Manufacturing Dive. Exports of oil, liquefied natural gas at Gulf Coast ports will likely be unaffected due to the ILA has little or no involvement in those operations.  Bill Fleming, Senior Vice President at the New York based consulting firm, Cumming Group, weird name said that impacts of the strike should be felt immediately in the construction industry. Okay, so this is very specific to construction. Combine that with hurricane induced shortages, it starts to bring up. This could be catastrophic. For the U S infrastructure. So  there's a little bit more context. I'd like maybe a little bit more but I think you get the idea. It's all about AI. It's all about automation. It's about eliminating some of their jobs and them wanting higher pay. So not only do you want us to not use AI to lower our overhead costs.  You also want us to pay you more, which is only again, going to speed along the automation track. Automation is not going away.  What is going to go away is the people who don't jump on board with helping to build that future,  right? If you were somebody who is I don't know, what's a good example of an old job that is lost. If you were a  factory worker in building Model Ts  by hand. You probably weren't going to  decide not to work anymore once they decided to bring in some machines, right? If you were a horse and buggy taxi driver, you're not gonna decide not to drive a car, right? There's a new way to do what you do and to help push along the production line.  You just have to figure out what that part is. And see it soon enough to play a part, right? Don't fight against this. It's going to, it's going to happen. There's going to be automation, right? Maybe you get your raise because you add more skills around automation. Not just eliminate it, the use all together, right? Seems silly to me and the fact that they're going to shut down our country over some Ridiculous claim that there's going to not be any automation or AI integrated into this type of industry is ridiculous It's never gonna happen There's always going to be the next best thing and movement in industry and for them to say we're going to Cripple small business owners. We're going to cripple small businesses Young families, we're going to cripple the entire us economy until we get our way. We get a 50 percent rate, a 50 percent salary increase off of our 150, 000 a year salary. I'm not saying they don't deserve that. They deserve that. And they probably deserve more. It's a freaking hard job. It's a crazy difficult job. I'm not discounting that. But what I am saying is that you can't fight back against automation.  It's going to happen.  And if you don't do it, your company is going to go under. Because another company is going to come in and do it at a lower cost. Or they're going to outsource that work to other people and you're just going to lose your job altogether.  So that's where we're at with that. Now there's people sounding the alarm. There was lines outside the door at Costco yesterday, people bulk purchasing toilet paper and dry goods so that if, and when the supply chain fails over the next couple of weeks that they have what they need. Now, I'm not saying you need to go do that. I'm not saying not to do it, probably a good idea, always to have reserves of food,  reserves of water, reserves of gas, I'm not sure if there's a way to really do that, but if there was, you should probably do that generators, all of that stuff, guys just, if we've learned anything over the last four to five years, there is going to be some sort of catastrophic event that cuts us off from the grid, there's going to be supply chain shortages, COVID was just  a glimpse into that.  Maybe start to do something about that. Not specifically because of this, but just because you should, right? Because if it's not, this is going to be something else  be prepared.  All right, now moving on,  let's go ahead and pull  the next article up.  There is escalating tensions. Oh, we got one more thing here. One more thing. Let's see. Let's see this one more article and then we'll move on. Cause I think we got it. This is a big deal, guys. Let's watch this one.  Same guy.  Knocking down doors. She's trying to stop this. She's trying to get us to a media where we can have a fair negotiations. It's the companies that don't want to. They don't want to sit here and be fair. So that's why we're out here fighting for our livelihood. What more from the automation do you want? What more protections could there be? What more? Yeah, they have language in there now. Not strong enough. Because what happens is they come in with new technology. We just caught them in Mobile, Alabama called Autogate. And that means the trucks are coming in and they're already checked in somewhere else and not using the checkers in the I. L. A. Circa vetting the contract. They don't care. They don't care.  It's not fair, and if we don't put our foot down now, they would like to run over us, and we're not going to allow that. You are going to grind the economy to a halt here on the East Coast and the Gulf Coast. No, not us. They are. Don't spin it now, because you're Fox News. They're going to drive it. But are you worried? Are you  worried that this drive They have the capital. to settle this thing. Are you worried that this strike is going to hurt the everyday American, the farmers that need to reach the export market? They're telling me that they're going to hurt. You start to realize who the longshoremen are, right?  People never gave a about us until now, when they finally realized that The chain is being broke now. Cars won't come in.  Food won't come in. Clothing won't come in. You know how many people depend on our jobs? Half the world! And it's time for them, and time for Washington, to put so much pressure on them, to take care of us because we took care of them and we're here 135 years and brought them where they are today and they don't want to share.  Fox Business Lydia Hu joins us now from the port of Newark in New Jersey and I've been following you. We have been as you've done this story for us and now the rubber has met the road and he feels like he's dug in and feels like he's in a strong position. Is he in as strong a position as he thinks or appears to seem to be? He certainly feels like he's in a strong position, and he's probably looking around at other unions and the wage gains and the record contracts that they have notched in recent years. Just last year, the West Coast port workers got a new contract with a 32 percent wage hike. Over four years. So now Mr Daggett, the president is looking at that and saying we want that and better just yesterday, Dana, Mr Daggett rejected port management's offer of a 50 percent wage hike over eight years. Just to give you an idea of where they stand right now. It does seem like the two sides are still far apart, but he does at least see  Wow, so you see this guy is on a power hungry streak, right? Again, they have a fair contract 80 or 50 percent increase over eight years  Seems pretty fair to me the idea that there's already language in the contracts that say that they can't use automation Seems pretty fair to me bring up the litigation against the company, right? Go to the court with them Don't cripple the entire country all of the small business owners  Families trying to feed their children. Because you want to be selfish And again,  You're just going to get replaced. This is so stupid. What are you doing?  Ridiculous.  These unions are a problem, dude. These are, these unions are they,  The union, that guy is an absolute idiot. He's sitting there, riling up his team, Getting their, these, So let's move on to something just, if not more pressing, which is  the next stages leading up to potentially world war three, as we've seen, go back and search my podcast and look for world war three, we've seen the Russia, Ukraine, we've seen that I ran, or we've seen Israel and Hamas, we've seen Iran now, and Israel,  Iran has openly attacked Israel. is now attacking back. In light of that,  there is Russia escalating tensions. There was a fighter jet yesterday, a Russian SU 35 pilot  going right by an F 16 near Alaska in our own airspace. This is how they're treating us. This  fighter jet flies within two feet of our F 16, two feet, and then takes off.  Pretty sweet. The  pilot goes, holy fuck. Yeah, holy fuck.  But, that just shows you, they're willing to go to these lengths. And when you look at the BRIC you look at that alliance, you look at the downfall that's happening with the U. S. dollar. You look at the conversations that are being had between Russia and China, India, right?  We're, this is not a, this is not a winning battle for us.  We should not be in these wars. We should not be the proxy funding capital of the world.  Let Israel fight it out. We have nothing to do with this. Now,  the U. S. has sent another aid package to Israel.  And Biden has directed the U. S. military to shoot down Iranian missiles targeting Israel. It says U S president Joe Biden. This comes from business standard and vice president Kamal Harris are monitoring an Iranian attack against Israel from the white house state situation room and receiving regular updates from their national security team. According to the white house situation room update, president Biden directed the U S military aid to aid Israel's defense against Iranian attacks and shoot down missiles that are targeting Israel  on Tuesday in a major escalation in the raging conflict in the middle East. Iran launched a missile attack on Israel on Tuesday. To start a sentence with on Tuesday and end it with on Tuesday is crazy. In a statement, the IDF said all Israeli citizens are in bomb shelters as rockets from Iran are fired at Israel.  Hezbollah is upset that the IDF exposed their plans to massacre Israelis, this says, so they decided to target innocent civilians by firing a barrage of rockets, the IDF further said.  102 missiles have been launched towards Israel. According to the Jerusalem Post, sirens continue to sound across Israel amid the attack. The Times of Israel reported, according to the IDF, around 10 million civilians are the targets of Iranian projectiles. Okay, I'm not sure I'm taking the IDF's opinion on really anything at this point. Maybe there's a better quote or  source that we can utilize because we know it's all propaganda on both sides, all the way across. There was also a terrorist attack yesterday that killed, I think, eight civilians in Israel. Two men with guns that opened fire just before. Terrible. Horrible.  No good. Very bad day.  This is ridiculous. We shouldn't be involving ourselves. We all know that the United States is going to put its nose where it doesn't belong.  We all know that we are the ones that are fighting Iran. We are the ones that are fighting Russia. We are the ones aiding the both of these countries would have absolutely no chance if it wasn't for our money and they wouldn't even be in the wars to begin with.  But they're going to send your sons and daughters to die  so that Israel  has a chance in this war and so that  Ukraine can continue giving 10 percent to the big guy.  Here's a video again coming from Alex Jones. I think the more and more we get into this crazy scenario or this crazy simulation, the more we find Alex Jones stuff out, you bull. Now again, it's Alex Jones. Take it with a grain of salt. He's been right about a ton of stuff. He's been wrong about a few things, just like all of us. But here is his video that I thought was decently well done.  And it's only going to get worse until people wake up and you will wake up one way or another.  You may wake up when the drones are flying down the street and the big trash trucks, robot driven, are pulling up and getting the dead bodies and your wife and kids are dead. And for some reason you're immune to the new virus and you're sitting there with the electricity off and no food and half the city's dead.  And just know that often luxurious places that people like Zuckerberg will be in their bunkers while we're all dying.  Our people are everywhere  and they're watching the enemy. And when we all jump on their private jets this week, next month, a year from now, whatever it is,  and the private airports are full, all the establishment and their minions loaded up with all their crap flying off to their armored fortresses, that's another key to know when they're about to pull the trigger on a new bio weapon.  Or a nuclear war.  But after the dust settles, we know where to get the medicine and food we need as survivors, don't we? And that's what matters at the end.  Is we will get these people.  I may not be around for it, and a lot of you won't be around for it. But don't get on the bus when they tell you they're relocating you for your safety when all the food and energy's off.  Because you go to that forced labor camp, you ain't ever coming back.  This is how it works in history.  Happens all the time.  People forget freedom. They don't stand up for themselves and the tyrants take over.  And they don't just not care about you. They hate you. They want to hurt you. I always hear, Oh, the new order doesn't care about the people. Oh, the Democrats don't care. Oh, they do care. They love partying and taking drugs and getting their hair done and flying around on private jets while your kids are all locked up at the house with you and you're going bankrupt. They enjoy hurting you. It makes them enjoy their lives so much more.  And hey, only people you got to blame is yourself, right? I'm not saying you're to blame. They obviously are the really bad people. But, hey, I get it. A lot of fun stuff. A lot of movies to see. A lot of concerts. Let somebody else handle that. The new order is gonna handle you.  They're making their move.  You're like they'll never get away with that. This is America. Have you looked around, boys and girls, at where we are?  And how fast thin

The need for lithium is increasing. That brings challenges to areas where lithium is mined and one of those is Gaston County, where Piedmont Lithium wants to locate a mine.

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Monique Parker, senior vice president of EHS at Piedmont Lithium, hesitantly accepted a job early in her career that moved her across the country to Salt Lake City, Utah. Little did she know, that move would open her eyes to a career-defining passion: Diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this episode, Monique chats with Jill about her accidental journey into EHS, starting with her passion for chemical engineering and environmental science. They discuss the importance of building relationships, adapting to different cultures, and the role of DEI in the safety profession. Monique concludes by encouraging women in EHS to be authentic, confident, and find advocates and allies for growth and support.

Monique Parker, senior vice president of EHS at Piedmont Lithium, hesitantly accepted a job early in her career that moved her across the country to Salt Lake City, Utah. Little did she know, that move would open her eyes to a career-defining passion: Diversity, equity, and inclusion. In this episode, Monique chats with Jill about her accidental journey into EHS, starting with her passion for chemical engineering and environmental science. They discuss the importance of building relationships, adapting to different cultures, and the role of DEI in the safety profession. Monique concludes by encouraging women in EHS to be authentic, confident, and find advocates and allies for growth and support.

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. David Klanecky is president and CEO of Charlotte-based Cirba Solutions, one of the largest battery recyclers in the world. Klanecky previously served as executive vice president and COO of Piedmont Lithium, where he helped build North America's largest Lithium company. From 2013 to 2021, David served in increasingly senior management roles within Albemarle Corp., the world's leading lithium producer, including as vice president of strategy and corporate development and as vice president of lithium operations (APAC/EU), with global responsibility for Albemarle's manufacturing/operations, process technology and product management within the global lithium business. He also served as interim CEO of the MARBL joint venture between Albemarle and Mineral Resources Ltd, which includes the Kemerton and Wodgina assets in Australia.

Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people. David Klanecky is president and CEO of Charlotte-based Cirba Solutions, one of the largest battery recyclers in the world. Klanecky previously served as executive vice president and COO of Piedmont Lithium, where he helped build North America's largest Lithium company. From 2013 to 2021, David served in increasingly senior management roles within Albemarle Corp., the world's leading lithium producer, including as vice president of strategy and corporate development and as vice president of lithium operations (APAC/EU), with global responsibility for Albemarle's manufacturing/operations, process technology and product management within the global lithium business. He also served as interim CEO of the MARBL joint venture between Albemarle and Mineral Resources Ltd, which includes the Kemerton and Wodgina assets in Australia.

► If you enjoyed the episode, please leave us a good review!► More from PIF: https://linktr.ee/practicalislamicfinanceDoubling My MoneyIn this episode, we will cover:PIF's position and thesis, anticipating a potential 2x increase in the next 12 to 18 months.The reasoning behind the thesis, focusing on the increasing global demand for lithium batteries, particularly due to advancements in humanoid robots.Analysis of the current deficit in lithium production and the unsustainable pricing trends.Exploration of the potential for a significant price increase in lithium.Evaluation of Piedmont Lithium (ticker symbol PLL) as a potential investment opportunity, including back-of-the-napkin valuation calculations.Discussion of audience questions and topics, ranging from the Sharia compliance of MicroStrategy to outlooks on specific stocks like CLSK, Cisco, and Tesla.Interaction with the audience, including responding to queries and engaging with feedback.CONTACT USsalam@practicalislamicfinance.comABOUT OUR PODCASTOur podcast is about helping people ethically build wealth. We cover a broad range of topics including stock and crypto investing, product reviews, and general financial well-being.DISCLAIMERAnything you hear in this video is an opinion. It is not personalized financial advice. Make sure you do your due diligence before making any investment decisions.

Piedmont Lithium is one step closer to making its mining operation in Gaston County a reality. The company announced Monday that the state approved its mining permit two and a half years after it applied. People in Cherryville have been pushing against the proposed lithium mine for the last few years. However, several people WCNC Charlotte spoke with on Main Street said the project is too divisive of an issue to share their opinions on camera.READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/local/lithium-permit-gaston-county-north-carolina/275-cc167294-17e7-459d-843e-20b7333c72f8Plus, Richard DeVayne has the very latest on a deadly crash involving a pedestrian on the I-485 inner loop in northeast Charlotte. The crash happened around 4 a.m. near University City Boulevard. It's unclear if any charges will be filed. READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/traffic/deadly-crash-inner-loop-interstate-485-charlotte-north-carolina/275-db222397-aa0e-450f-a169-3d4fb26abda1WCNC Charlotte To Go is a daily news and weather podcast you can listen to so you can start your day with the team at WCNC Charlotte.  SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts || Spotify || Pandora || TuneIn || Google Podcasts || iHeartAll of WCNC Charlotte's podcasts are free and available for both streaming and download. You can listen now on Android, iPhone, Amazon, and other internet-connected devices. Join us from North Carolina, South Carolina, or on the go anywhere.

Our conversation with Will Thomson of Massif Capital covered plenty of ground including the art of short selling as well as specific company shorts, the change in sentiment around copper, the long & short of lithium, whether uranium is misunderstood, how Will structures Massif's portfolio and his lessons from insurance and much more.Sign-up for the Director's SpecialAll Money of Mine episodes are for informational purposes only and may contain forward-looking statements that may not eventuate. The co-hosts are not financial advisers and any views expressed are their opinion only. Please do your own research before making any investment decision or alternatively seek advice from a registered financial professional. Podcast Partners: VRIFY – Communicate in 3Dgrant@vrify.com GetWet Solutions – Innovative Bladder Tanks Storage for mobile Water storage on your Mine SiteMatt.hall@getwetsolutions.com.au DSI Underground – Ground Support gurushttps://www.dsiunderground.com/contact SMEC Power & Technology – Electrical expertssales@smelectrical.com.au Anytime Exploration Services – Exploration workers, equipment, core cutting/storage + much moreseamus@anytimees.com KCA Site Services – Underground mining machineadmin@kcasiteservices.com.au Brooks Airways – Perth's leading charter flight operatorsops@brooksairways.com K-Drill – Safe, reliable, and productive surface RC drilling ryan@k-drill.com.au Join our Facebook Group for the Money Miners and get access to the Hooteroo chat Money of Mine YouTubeMoney of Mine TwitterMoney of Mine LinkedInMoney of Mine Instagram(0:00:00)Big Announcement(0:06:55)Will Thomson(0:09:03)Why short Piedmont Lithium(0:14:43)When's the right time to short(0:20:04)The Fund Manager - Prime Broker relationship(0:25:55)Massif's Lithium Americas holding(0:28:59)Will Milei be beneficial for mining in Argentina?(0:31:33)The Lundin Family BIG copper play(0:36:31)A sentiment change in copper(0:40:41)Copper torque(0:46:05)The right number of positions in a portfolio(0:47:24)The mindset change from insurance to equity investing(0:52:12)Whether to hedge currency risk(0:54:27)The process of writing out your ideas(0:57:02)Centaurus and the broader Nickel market(1:04:03)Are China ramping up Lepidolite to buy Western Mines cheaper?(1:06:43)Has uranium strucutrally changed?(1:09:10)Is this company a fraud?(1:12:49)Massif's Adriactic investment

INDEX: 00:00 - Introduction 03:51 - IperionX Reveals Titanium Recycling Breakthrough 08:35 - Titanium Eyed as Strategic Mineral for US 10:33 - IperionX's Market Surge and Revenue Outlook 12:46 - IperionX's Potential Market Impact and Profits 14:12 - Market Timing Discussion and Recharge Note 17:01 - Counter to Negative Lithium Demand Narrative 20:19 - Exploring Macro Comparisons in Lithium Market 24:35 - Concerns Raised Over African Lithium Supply 25:29 - Warning Against Rushed Lithium Projects 26:17 - Advice for Skeptical Investors in Lithium Market 29:38 - Stocks Canaccord Rates Having Most Upside - Galan, Cygnus, Latin Resources, Piedmont Lithium, Winsome Resources 31:47 - Impact of Rising Lithium Prices Explored 33:32 - Supply Cuts and Lithium Mine Viability 34:12 - Assessment of North American Lithium Mine, Piedmont, Sayona 37:48 - Positive Outlook for Galan's Lithium Production 40:33 - Albemarle Auction's Impact on Lithium Market 42:13 - MinRes Land Banking, Acquisition of Poseidon Nickel Infrastructure 43:46 - Australian Stocks and Guangzhou Futures Relationship 46:35 - Updates to Long-Term Lithium Pricing Discussed 48:09 - Suitability of 20% IRR Questioned _________________________________________________ Links

Wall St closed lower overnight, despite a rally in AI stocks as part of the artificial intelligence boom. The S&P500 lost 0.12%, the Dow Jones fell 0.25% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq ended the trading session 0.41% lower. These losses were pulled back by AI company Nvidia, which soared 18% as the S&P Dow Jones indices revealed it would join the S&P 500 later this month.Over in Europe, markets closed slightly lower as investors await the European Central Bank meeting. The STOXX600 closed 0.07% lower with most stocks closing in the red including mining stocks which fell 1.24% with tech stocks gaining 0.8%. Germany's DAX closed 0.11% lower, the French CAC gained 0.28% and over in the UK the FTSE100 closed just over half a percent down.Locally yesterday, markets closed 0.13% lower as the majority of sectors finished in the red. Losses were led by the health and utilities sector which lost 0.78% and 0.77% respectively. This was slightly offset by the real estate sector which gained 1.34%.What to watch today: The Australian share market is set to open slightly higher, with the SPI futures suggesting a rise of 0.05% at the open this morning.On the commodity front this morning, Oil is trading down 1.54% at US$78.13 a barrel after OPEC and its allies agreed to extend voluntary production cuts until the end of June. Gold is trading 1.62% higher to US$2117 an ounce and iron ore is trading flat at US$117.50 cents a tonne.Trading Ideas: Bell Potter maintains a buy rating on DroneShield (ASX:DRO) with a 12-month price target of $0.90. The buy rating is maintained by Bell Potter as DroneShield is now a profitable growth company after its first profitable year with an NPAT of $9.3m. The company is also exposed to relevant investment trends, including rising defence expenditure globally, the increasing risk of drones and the role of AI/ML technology.And Trading Central has identified a bullish signal in Piedmont Lithium (ASX:PLL), indicating that the stock price may rise from the close of $0.24 to the range of $0.28-$0.30, on a pattern formed over 21 days, according to the standard principles of technical analysis.

As we approach the close of the February 2024 reporting season, 346 companies have shared their results, offering a mixed bag of beats, meets, and misses. While investor sentiment has been volatile, with share prices reacting dramatically to both positive and negative news, brokers have been more cautious, issuing slightly more downgrades than upgrades. So, what were the key themes that emerged during the first half that will shape the second half of the year? In this week's wrap, Grady covers:(0:53): why Harvey Norman is rallying despite slowdown(1:56): which retailers are winning as consumer spending eases(2:18): mixed results for Ramsay Healthcare & ResMed(3:50): how commodity prices are keeping miners on edge(4:33): key themes that will continue into second half of FY24(6:28): the most traded stocks & ETFs by Bell Direct clients(7:02): economic data to watch next week. 

We're bringing back an episode from 2021 featuring North Carolina's role in the energy storage supply chain highlighting the Western part of the state's spodumene resources. We also briefly touch on the recently approved PowerPair solar and storage incentive approved by the NCUC. The order can be found here: https://bit.ly/3O3wjNw We're kicking off a mini-series focused on North Carolina's role in the storage industry, starting from supply-chain, then highlighting research and innovation, and finishing off with markets and policy. On this episode, we're highlighting the supply chain of storage and batteries here in North Carolina. We sit down and talk with Brian Risinger of Piedmont Lithium to highlight western North Carolina's spodumene resource – a mineral used to make lithium ion batteries. We'll talk about the process of extracting and refining this resource, along with the advantages of onshoring this industry that's so important to the future of electric vehicles and storage. On this episode we also provide some short highlights from the NC legislative session to date and bills introduced. We also briefly touch on the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. To wrap us up, Daniel Pate, NCSEA's Energy Program Manager takes us on another virtual tour of installed clean energy projects on the NC Solar Traveler. On today's episode we're focused on Hertford and Northampton counties. Presented by NC Sustainable Energy Association. Hosted and produced by Matt Abele (Twitter: @MattAbele)

Interview with Stephen Stares, President & CEO of Benton Resources Inc.Recording date: 22nd December 2023Benton Resources is a Canadian exploration company focused on advancing its high-grade Great Burnt copper-gold project in Newfoundland, Canada. CEO Steven Stares has 17 years experience in the mining industry and comes from a family of prospectors and mining executives. He believes Great Burnt could become a substantial resource.Benton recently optioned Great Burnt from Spruce Ridge Resources. Benton will earn a 70% interest by spending $2.5 million over 20 months, with the potential to earn 100% interest if Spruce Ridge does not participate in funding. Historical drilling in the 1960s-70s was inaccurate due to poor recoveries. Recent drilling by Spruce Ridge and Benton has uncovered significantly higher grades and widths than previously reported. Multiple zones are open along strike and at depth, with robust exploration potential across the 15km belt.Benton recently completed 6,000 meters of drilling at Great Burnt, delivering exceptional high-grade copper and gold intercepts. This prompted strong share price performance and a recent $3.5 million financing. A 40,000 meter drill program is planned for 2024 to expand resources. Additional mapping, geophysics, and trenching will aid targeting. The deposit has excellent infrastructure nearby, with a major power dam and port access.Benton also has early-stage projects in lithium and platinum group elements (PGEs). Its Newfoundland lithium project is being advanced in partnership with Piedmont Lithium. Benton's 24% stake in Clean Air Metals offers PGE optionality at the Thunder Bay North Project.In summary, Benton's focus is advancing the large-scale potential of its Great Burnt copper-gold discovery through aggressive exploration. The company is well-financed, tightly held, and leveraged to drilling success. The CEO has reiterated his confidence that Great Burnt will become Benton's flagship asset as it works towards delineating a substantial mineral resource.—View Benton Resources' company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/benton-resources-incSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

Piedmont Lithium Inc. (Nasdaq: PLL; ASX: PLL) is developing a world-class, multi-asset, integrated lithium business focused on enabling the transition to a net zero world and the creation of a clean energy economy in North America. It's projects include our Carolina Lithium and Tennessee Lithium projects in the United States and partnerships in Quebec with Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA) and in Ghana with Atlantic Lithium (AIM: ALL; ASX: A11). These geographically diversified operations will enable us to play a pivotal role in supporting America's move toward energy independence and the electrification of transportation and energy storage. Waiver & Disclaimer If you register for this webinar/conference you agree to the following; This webinar is provided for information purposes only. Presenters will not be providing legal or financial advice to any webinar participants or any person watching a recorded version of the webinar. All webinar participants or any person watching a recorded version of this webinar should obtain independent legal and financial advice. All webinar participants accept and grant permission to Bloor Street Capital Inc. and its representatives in connection with such recording. The information contained in this webinar/conference is current as of November the 10th, 2023, the date of this webinar/conference, unless otherwise indicated, and is provided for information purposes on. Bloor Street Capital was paid a fee for this conference.

Atlantic Lithium Ltd's Executive Chairman, Neil Herbert, presented at the Proactive One2One Investor Forum, detailing the company's advancements in its Ghana-based lithium project, Ewoyaa. Herbert announced the receipt of a mining license in late October, signaling the green light for production, targeted to commence within 18 months. Despite two rejected acquisition offers at a premium to the share price, Herbert emphasised the project's untapped value. Herbert highlighted Ghana's rich mining heritage, noting 20 large-scale operations, including gold, bauxite, and manganese mines. The Ewoyaa project, set to diversify Ghana's mineral base with lithium, boasts an upgraded mineral resource from 20 million tonnes to 35 million tonnes. The completion of a definitive feasibility study marks a significant step towards production. Ewoyaa's simple mining conditions and gravity circuit processing (DMS) reduce capital expenditure, setting it apart from other lithium projects that require flotation processing. The project's location near Accra and a major port offers logistical advantages, and its proximity to an existing paved road and upgraded port facilities ensures efficient mineral transport. The project, vital for Ghana, has garnered government support, including increased royalties and a commitment to a community development fund. Significant shareholders, like ASCO International Holdings and Piedmont Lithium, underscore the project's robust economics and low all-in sustaining cash costs, making it competitive globally. Financing strategies involve partnerships and offtake agreements, with 50% of the offtake still open for securing additional funding. The project timeline anticipates early production by the second quarter of 2025, with full-scale production commencing in 2026. Herbert's presentation affirmed Atlantic Lithium's commitment to operational readiness, government collaboration, and exploration expansion, asserting the project's potential for long-term profitability and growth in the lithium market. #ProactiveInvestors #AtlanticLithium #LithiumMining #GhanaMining #MiningIndustry #EwoyaaProject #LithiumProduction #MiningInvestment #ResourceUpgrade #FeasibilityStudy #MineralResources #SustainableMining #MiningTechnology #LithiumMarket #InvestorForum #ProactiveInvestors #NeilHerbert #MiningEconomics #LithiumProcessing #MiningLicenses #MiningInAfrica #MineralExploration #MiningDevelopment #GlobalMining #LithiumDemand #MiningOperations #MiningFinance #LithiumInvestors #MiningSectorUpdates #FutureOfMining #LithiumProjects #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

Neil Herbert, Executive Chairman of Atlantic Lithium #ALL discusses activities during the quarter, which he describes as a remarkable period of progress, which included the award of a Mining Lease for the Ewoyaa Lithium Project. He said it represents the Government's belief in the Company as its partner of choice in its long-term lithium production objectives and sets Ewoyaa on a path to become one of the next major hard rock spodumene mines. Highlights from the Reporting Period: -  Commitment from partner Piedmont Lithium to sole fund the first US$70m, and 50% of any additional costs thereafter, of the total US$185m development expenditure indicated in the Definitive Feasibility Study ("DFS") for the Company's flagship Ewoyaa Lithium Project ("Ewoyaa" or the "Project") in Ghana, comprising the proposed Ewoyaa Lithium Mine and Processing Plant. - Planned investment of a total US$32.9m (A$51.4m / £26.3m) by the Minerals Income Investment Fund of Ghana ("MIIF") in the Company and its Ghanaian subsidiaries to expedite the development of the Project. - Commenced competitive offtake partnering process to secure Project funding for a portion of the remaining 50% available feedstock from Ewoyaa. Post-period end - Mining Lease granted for the Ewoyaa Lithium Project, representing a major de-risking milestone for the Project. - Agreed terms maintain Ewoyaa's position as one of the lowest capital and operating cost hard rock lithium projects globally. TO READ THE FULL RNS CLICK HERE

A Fed rate-hike pause at next week's FOMC meeting is likely, noted mining audiences manager Michael McCrae. On Friday McCrae recorded Kitco Roundtable with correspondent Paul Harris. Also noted during Roundtable was Piedmont Lithium and partner Atlantic Lithium obtaining permits for the Ewoyaa project in Ghana.

Lots of new drill results to report this morning, including the latest from Fireweed Metals, Li-FT Power, Thesis Gold and Red Pine Exploration. Piedmont Lithium said the Ewoyaa Lithium Project in Ghana has been granted a mining lease. Founders Metals provided results of auger geochemical survey results targeting historical artisanal mining tailings. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Western Copper and Gold is focused on developing the world-class Casino project in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Casino project consists of an impressive 11 billion pounds of copper and 21 million ounces of gold in an overall resource. Western Copper and Gold trades on the TSX and the NYSE American with WRN. Be sure to follow the company via their website, www.westerncopperandgold.com. Arizona Sonoran Copper Company (ASCU:TSX) is focused on developing its brownfield copper project on private land in Arizona, a tier 1 location. The Cactus Mine Project is located less than an hour's drive from the Phoenix International airport via highway i-10, and with grid power and the Union Pacific Rail line situated at the base of the Cactus Project main road. With permitted water access, a streamlined permitting framework and infrastructure already in place, ASCU's Cactus Mine Project is a lower risk copper development project in the infrastructure-rich heartland of Arizona.For more information, please visit ⁠⁠⁠www.arizonasonoran.com⁠⁠⁠. Fireweed Metals is advancing 3 different projects within the Yukon and Northwest Territories, including the flagship Macmillan Pass Project, a large zinc-lead-silver deposit and the Mactung Project, one of the largest and highest-grade tungsten deposits in the world. Fireweed plans to advance these projects through exploration, resource definition, metallurgy, engineering, economic studies and collaboration with indigenous people on the path to production. For more information please visit ⁠⁠⁠fireweedmetals.com⁠⁠⁠.

Atlantic Lithium CEO Keith Muller joined Proactive's Stephen Gunnion with the news that the company has been granted a mining lease for the Ewoyaa lithium project by Ghana's Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources. Muller said the lease is the first to be granted for lithium in Ghana and also covers its processing plant, enabling construction and movement of the project towards commercial production. The company expects Ewoyaa will be one of the world's lowest capital and operating cost hard rock lithium projects, with the potential for a 2.7Mtpa steady state operation producing a total of 3.6Mt of spodumene concentrate (approximately 350,000tpa) over a 12-year mine life. Muller said estimated development costs of US$185 million will be substantially funded by partner Piedmont Lithium and a planned investment by MIIF, Ghana's sovereign wealth fund. Atlantic has also agreed to list on the Ghana Stock Exchange and will undertake more studies to assess the potential for feldspar as a by-product at Ewoyaa with downstream conversion in Ghana. #ProactiveInvestors #AtlanticLithium #AIM #LSE #lithium #Ewoyaa #Ghana #MIIF #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

  Neil Herbert, Executive Chairman, of Atlantic Lithium #ALL discusses the award of the Mining Lease for the company's Ewoyaa Lithium Project by Ghana's Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, saying it's a major endorsement of the viability of the Project and a landmark de-risking milestone in its advancement towards production. Highlights - Mining Lease terms, secured in the interests of all stakeholders through close cooperation with the Government of Ghana, in line with establishing its new Green Minerals Policy, maintain the Project's position as one of the lowest capital and operating cost hard rock lithium projects globally and indicate strong commercial viability and exceptional profitability potential for a 2.7Mtpa steady state operation, producing a total of 3.6Mt of spodumene concentrate (approximately 350,000tpa) over a 12-year mine life1: · Ewoyaa to become one of the top 10 largest spodumene concentrate producers globally; · Payback period of main processing plant of 9.5 months; · C1 cash operating costs of US$377/t of concentrate Free-On-Board ("FOB") Ghana Port, after by-product credits, All in Sustaining Cost ("AISC") of US$675/t; · Development cost estimate of US$185m; to be substantially funded by Piedmont Lithium and planned investment by Ghana's sovereign wealth fund, the Minerals Income Investment Fund ("MIIF"); · Post-tax NPV8 of US$1.3bn, with free cash flow of US$2.1bn from Life of Mine ("LOM") revenues of US$6.6bn. - Mining Lease represents a considerable de-risking milestone in the development of the Project. - First Mining Lease to be granted for lithium in Ghana, demonstrating the Government's strong support in the Company as its 'partner of choice' to deliver long-term lithium production and serving as a major landmark in the country's efforts to reaffirm its status as a leading mining destination and establish itself as a key player in the global decarbonisation drive in Africa. TO READ THE FULL RNS CLICK HERE

Neil Herbert, Executive Chairman of Atlantic Lithium #ALL talks about the achievements of the last 12 months including their Definitive Feasibility Study, which ranks them in the top 10 lithium spodumene mines in the world. Highlights Project Development and Exploration -       Definitive Feasibility Study1 for the Ewoyaa Lithium Project ("Ewoyaa" or the "Project") indicating exceptional economic outcomes and profitability potential for a 2.7Mtpa steady state operation, producing 3.6Mt of spodumene concentrate over a 12-year Life of Mine. -     Significant Mineral Resource Estimate1 ("MRE" or the "Resource") upgrade to 35.3Mt at 1.25% Li2O including 28Mt in the Measured and Indicated categories. -      Robust Pre-Feasibility Study ("PFS") indicating the Project as an industry-leading lithium asset. -      Submission of Mining Lease application for the Project. -      Completion of the Front-End Engineering Design ("FEED") for the Ewoyaa Processing Plant. -       Advancement of the 2023 resource and exploration drilling programme. Post-period end -       Appointment of DRA Global Limited ("DRA") to conduct a Scoping Study to assess the viability of an additional flotation circuit downstream to the proposed Dense Media Separation ("DMS") processing plant. -       Memorandum of Understanding ("MOU") signed with The University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa ("UMaT") to assess the viability of producing feldspar as a by-product at Ewoyaa. Corporate -       Appointment of Keith Muller as Chief Executive Officer and Len Kolff as Head of Business Development & Chief Geologist. -       Commenced trading of the Company's shares on the ASX under the ticker 'A11'. -       Appointment of Keith Muller and Patrick Brindle to the Company's Board of Directors. -       Joined the International Lithium Association as an Associate Member. -      Granted eligibility for the Company's common shares listed on the OTCQX® Best Market ("OTCQX") in the United States for electronic clearing and settlement through the Depository Trust Company ("DTC"). -       Exploration and evaluation expenditure held on the balance sheet for the year ended 30 June 2023 was A$18.0m (2022: A$11.1m). -       Cash position at 30 June 2023 of A$15.3m (2022: A$23.9m). Post-period end -       Non-binding Heads of Terms agreed with Ghana's Mineral Income Investment Fund ("MIIF") to invest a total of US$32.9m (A$51.4m / £26.3m) in the Company and its Ghanaian subsidiaries to support the development of the Ewoyaa Lithium Project. -      Commitment from partner Piedmont Lithium to sole fund the first US$70m, and 50% of any additional development expenditure thereafter, towards the total US$185m development expenditure for the Project, as indicated in the DFS1. -       Appointment of Aaron Maurer as Head of Operational Readiness; launch of a mine build team in Perth and Ghana. TO READ THE FULL RNS CLICK HERE

Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ: PLL) president and chief executive officer Keith Phillips joins Small Caps to discuss the latest progress made at the company's North American Lithium (NAL) operation in Canada. Articles: https://smallcaps.com.au/ghana-sovereign-wealth-fund-backs-atlantic-lithium-piedmont-mine/https://smallcaps.com.au/maiden-cash-flow-sayona-piedmont-canada-lithium-alliance/https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-lithium-banks-pre-payment-inaugural-sale-nal-concentrate/ For more information on Piedmont Lithium:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/asx-pll/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ: PLL) president and chief executive officer Keith Phillips joins Small Caps to discuss the latest progress made at the company's North American Lithium (NAL) operation in Canada. Articles: https://smallcaps.com.au/ghana-sovereign-wealth-fund-backs-atlantic-lithium-piedmont-mine/https://smallcaps.com.au/maiden-cash-flow-sayona-piedmont-canada-lithium-alliance/https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-lithium-banks-pre-payment-inaugural-sale-nal-concentrate/ For more information on Piedmont Lithium:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/asx-pll/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

US equities advanced on Wednesday as investors digested the release of fresh economic data. Annual GDP growth in the US was downwardly revised on Wednesday from the previously forecast 2.4% to 2.1% growth. This came alongside US payrolls data showing private employers added 177,000 jobs in August which was below the Dow Jones estimate of 200,000, but adds a further sign of the U.S. economy doing it tough in the high interest rate environment.The S&P500 advanced 0.38% in its fourth straight winning session, the Nasdaq rose 0.54% and the Dow Jones added 0.11%. Tech stocks bolstered the gains on Wednesday after chipmaker and 2023 market darling Nvidia announced an expansion of its partnership with Google.Over in Europe, markets closed mostly marginally lower on Wednesday as investors responded to the release of economic data out of Spain and Germany. Spain reported flash inflation rate data rose 2.6% YoY in August which was in line with expectations, while Germany reported a 13.2% drop in imports in the year to July, the sharpest drop since 1987. The STOXX600 fell 0.2%, Germany's DAX lost 0.24%, the French CAC fell 0.12%, and in the UK, the FTSE100 added 0.12%.The local market closed 1.21% higher on Wednesday as investor sentiment was boosted by Australia's CPI indicator data cooling to growth of 4.9% in the 12-months to July. Industrials and healthcare stocks posted the biggest gains on Wednesday, while Real Estate stocks also rose 1.31% on the hopes of fewer or no further interest rate hikes in Australia as inflation continues to cool.Australia's monthly Consumer Price Index indicator rose by 4.9% in the year to July from a 5.4% rise in June and below market expectations of a 5.2% rise last month. Although it is still above the RBA's target range of 2-3%, it is showing strong signs of cooling which provides support for the RBA to ease its rate hike stance.Plus-size fashion retailer City chic tumbled 4.4% on Wednesday after posting a 17.2% slide in sales over FY23, while Brambles rose 7.1% after the supply chain solutions specialist reported a 10% rise in revenue, a 19% increase in profit after tax and a 15% lift in the company's dividend to 26.25UScps.Regional Express REX released FY23 results yesterday which sent the share price down nearly 3% despite the company reporting a statutory profit after tax of $14.4m, compared to a loss of $46.1m in the PCP. The result was boosted by a $44.5m contribution from REX's 50% acquisition of National Jet Express during the year.What to watch today:Ahead of the local trading session here in Australia the ASX is set to open Thursday's session up 0.06%.On the commodities front this morning oil is up 0.6% at US$81.63/barrel, gold is up 0.36% at US$1944/ounce, and iron ore is flat at US$115.50/tonne.AU$1.00 is buying US$0.65, 94.61 Japanese Yen, 50.97 British Pence and NZ$1.09.Trading Ideas:Bell Potter has increased the rating on Paragon Care (ASX:PGC) from a hold to a buy and maintain a 26 cents per share price target on the healthcare equipment, devices and consumables provider following the release of the company's FY23 results that included revenue up 24% to $307.6m, EBITDA margin up 12.5% driven mainly by acquisitions, and reported NPAT increased 89% to $13.6m. Revenue from the devices business increased 14% despite headwinds in reimbursements paid by the prosthesis list. Bell Potter upgraded the company to a buy as it expects further organic growth in FY24 and acceleration of growth in FY25.And Trading Central has identified a bullish signal on Piedmont Lithium (ASX:PLL) following the formation of a pattern over a period of 30-days which is roughly the same amount of time the share price may rise from the close of $0.69 to the range of $0.91 to $0.97 according to standard principles of technical analysis.

Wall Street ended mixed on Friday as gains in energy and defensive sectors like consumer staples and utilities offset weakness in large growth stocks on the Nasdaq. Alphabet and Tesla fell 1.9% and 1.7% respectively as investors fear interest rates could remain higher for longer which prompted the sell-off in technology stocks. The Dow Jones rose 0.07%, the S&P500 fell 0.01% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq lost 0.2%. Over the last 3 weeks, the Nasdaq has fallen 7.2%, its biggest decline since December. Beauty company Estée Lauder tumbled 3.3% on Friday after the company's annual net sales and profit fell short of analysts' expectations.Over in Europe, markets closed lower across the region as investor sentiment slides on global economic concerns and further runway for tighter monetary policy. The STOXX600 fell 0.6%, Germany's DAX lost 0.65%, the French CAC fell 0.38%, and, in the UK, the FTSE100 fell 0.65%.Danish hearing aid manufacturer GN Store Nord fell 5.9% on Friday after JPMorgan cut its price target on the company following significant losses and weak second quarter results released on Thursday.Locally on Friday the ASX rose just 0.03% as a 1.9% sell off among communication services stocks was offset by gains in the real estate and utilities sectors. For the week, the ASX fell 2.62% in line with the global market sell-off amid investor sentiment dampening on future rate hike outlook, slowing earnings growth out of reporting season results, and the Chinese economy continuing its sluggish growth post-pandemic.What to watch today: Ahead of the opening bell this Monday, the SPI futures are anticipating the ASX to open 0.32% lower.On the commodities front this morning, oil is trading 0.06% higher at US$81.30/barrel, gold is up 0.07% at US$1890/ounce, and iron ore is up almost 1% at US$108.50/tonne.Stocks trading ex-dividend today include Vicinity Centres (ASX:VCX) and Steadfast Group (ASX:SDF). If you've been thinking about these stocks, it might be worth considering buying in today as stocks trading ex-dividend generally trade lower on the ex-dividend date.AU$1.00 is buying US$0.64, 93.12 Japanese Yen, 50.04 British Pence and NZ$1.08. Trading Ideas: Bell Potter has downgraded the rating on PWR Holdings (ASX:PWH) from a buy to a hold and maintain a $10.50 12-month price target on the leading provider of customised cooling solutions for the global automotive industry. The downgrade was following the release of FY23 results where revenue was a slight beat while gross profit and EBITDA were slight misses. The company also failed to issue any guidance for FY24 and cash at bank was lower than Bell Potter was expecting due to higher CAPEX.And Trading Central has identified a bullish signal on Piedmont Lithium (ASX:PLL) following the formation of a pattern over a period of 22-days which is roughly the same amount of time the share price may rise from the close of $0.72 to the range of $0.92-$0.96 according to standard principles of technical analysis.

Neil Herbert, Executive Chairman of Atlantic Lithium #ALL discusses the committment by their partner Piedmont Lithium to exercise their option to acquire initial 22.5% interest in Atlantic Lithium's Ghana Portfolio. This committment sees Piedmont sole fund the first US$70 million of Ewoyaa's total development expenditure and 50% of any additional development expenditure required to build Ghana's first lithium mine. To read the full RNS click here

Hochschild Mining has received regulatory approval for the Modified Environment Impact Assessment (MEIA) for its Inmaculada operation in southwest Peru paving the way for the mine life to be extended by 20 years; Piedmont Lithium made the first commercial shipment of spodumene concentrate produced by North American Lithium via a trading company to international parties; i-80 GOLD announced the discovery of a new sulphide horizon called the Tyche Zone carrying high-grade gold‑silver mineralization at the Ruby Hill Property in Nevada; Jaguar Mining agreed t to acquire IAMGOLD's Pitangui Project in Minas Gerais and its part of the Acurui joint venture in Brazil for US$9 million; GoGold Resources announced additional drilling results from Los Ricos South, within the Main area.

"Only five people know how to run a spodumene mine. And you've got one of them." Neil Herbert, Chairman of Atlantic Lithium, recalls these words from a recent conference about new CEO, Keith Muller, joining the company.  Tune in for an in-depth discussion with Keith & Neil following the publication of Rodney's latest research note. Hear more about Atlantic's progress on the Ewoyaa project with partner Piedmont Lithium & what could lie ahead in their upcoming DFS... Index: 0:00 -  03:43 Introducing Atlantic & its projects. "Your valuation is very low... We want to hear what you're hearing." 03:44 - 13:49 Thoughts from Rodney Hooper's recent research note and introducing new CEO Keith Muller. Evaluating a Ghana-based lithium project??  13:49 - 18:32 Community engagement & mining capex. 18:33 - 21:27 "What are your thoughts around where to find a partner in terms of how would garnered material be treated under the IRA in the US?" 21:27 - 24:08 Any feedback / queries on mining license application & expected timeline?  24:09 - 27:36 Atlantic's relations with Ghanaian government.  Sufficient downstream demand with offtake partners? DFS expectations.  27:37 - 32:36 Closing words - "Atlantic's a great name." #lithium #Tesla #electricvehicles  Thank you to Zelandez for sponsoring this video.  ** Visit Zelandez.com for lithium brine services ** And thank you to our Patrons for supporting the channel.  If you like this video, please click the 'like' button and please also comment so we can improve our content going forward. Register your email at www.rkequity.com and follow Rodney and me on Twitter (@lithiumionbull @RodneyHooper13) and on LinkedIn. Please also subscribe here on YouTube to Rock Stock Channel to ensure full access to all our free content. And finally, if you find value in our content, please consider joining us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/rockstockchannel ----- DISCLAIMER NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH Rodney and Howard are not financial advisors nor broker dealers, this video is for information purposes only and should not be considered investment or financial advice. Please do your own independent research and read the disclaimer at the end of the video or on RK Equity's website www.rkequity.com Intro and outro audio credit: Jamie Klein

Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ, ASX: PLL) chief operating officer Patrick Brindle joins Small Caps to discuss the company's strategy to become a vertically integrated spodumene miner and lithium chemical producer for the United States domestic market. The company's North American Lithium (NAL) joint venture with Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA) in Quebec is now operational with first exports from the asset due in the September quarter. Meanwhile, plans for Piedmont's lithium hydroxide plant in Tennessee are advancing, with a definitive feasibility study recently completed giving the project an NPV of US$2.5 billion. Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-reveals-npv-proposed-tennessee-lithium-hydroxide-operation/https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-new-production-targets-north-american-lithium-project-release-dfs/ For more information on Piedmont Lithium:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/PLL/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ, ASX: PLL) chief operating officer Patrick Brindle joins Small Caps to discuss the company's strategy to become a vertically integrated spodumene miner and lithium chemical producer for the United States domestic market. The company's North American Lithium (NAL) joint venture with Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA) in Quebec is now operational with first exports from the asset due in the September quarter. Meanwhile, plans for Piedmont's lithium hydroxide plant in Tennessee are advancing, with a definitive feasibility study recently completed giving the project an NPV of US$2.5 billion. Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-reveals-npv-proposed-tennessee-lithium-hydroxide-operation/https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-new-production-targets-north-american-lithium-project-release-dfs/ For more information on Piedmont Lithium:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/PLL/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wall Street rebounded to rally on Wednesday as investor fears of a global banking crisis continue easing, boosting high growth stocks in the technology sector. Micron led the charge on the Nasdaq after the memory chip company forecast a drop in third quarter revenue in line with Wall Street expectations but gave a positive outlook for 2025 with artificial intelligence predicted to boost sales. The Dow Jones closed the midweek session 1% higher while the S&P500 also rose 1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 1.5%. While the banking system stresses are far from over, analysts at the Bank of America said ‘banking system stresses remain high but there are some signs of stabilisation'.Over in Europe markets also rebounded to close higher across the board. Investor fears of large bank collapses in the region are easing, especially after UBS announced former Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti will return as Chief Executive to guide the takeover of Credit Suisse, coming in to replace Ralph Hamers. The return of Ermotti sent shares in UBS up 3.72% on Wednesday. Germany's DAX added 1.23% on Wednesday, while the French CAC rose 1.39% and, in the UK, the FTSE100 rose 1.07%.Australia's consumer price index data for February out yesterday showed the country's inflation rate rose 6.8% in the year to February 2023, which is the second consecutive month of disinflation from the peak inflation rate of 8.4% in December 2022, and is an eight-month low for the inflation indicator. The most significant contributors to the annual increase seen in February were Housing up 9.9%, food and non-alcoholic beverages up 8%, transport up 5.6% and recreation and culture up 6.4%. Inflation falling to 6.8% in February from 7.4% in January provides further evidence that consumer prices have peaked, especially ahead of the RBA's interest rate meeting next week. Consensus were expecting a rise of 7.1%, so inflation coming in lower than expectations supports the notion for a pause in rate hikes at the RBA's meeting next week.The local index rose 0.23% yesterday as investor sentiment was boosted by the slowing of inflation growth in the country. The materials and energy sectors topped the gains on the local index yesterday with each adding over 1.2% on the back of rising commodity prices and boosted global demand outlook for key commodities.What to watch today:Ahead of the local trading session here in Australia the SPI futures are anticipating the ASX to open 0.68% higher on the back of that global rally overnight.On the commodities front this morning, oil is trading 0.31% lower at US$72.97/barrel, gold is down almost half a per cent at US$1964/ounce and iron ore is up 1.63% at US$124.50/tonne.The Aussie dollar is buying US$0.67, 88.79 Japanese Yen, 54.89 British Pence and NZ$1.07.Trading Ideas:Bell Potter has increased it's price target on Liontown Resources (ASX:LTR) from $2.81 to $3.35 and maintain a speculative buy rating on the lithium producer following the company announcing it has received and rejected a takeover offer worth $5.5bn from the world's largest lithium producer, Albermarle. The corporate interest in Liontown Resources from a high-profile US-based industry participant speaks to the quality of Liontown's Kathleen Valley project.Trading Central has identified a bullish signal on Piedmont Lithium (ASX:PLL) following the formation of a pattern over a period of 27-days which is roughly the same amount of time the share price may rise from the close of $0.82 to the range of $1.05 to $1.11 according to standard principles of technical analysis.

Early this week B2Gold said it would acquire Sabina Gold & Silver for C$1.1 billion (US$823.66 million).On Friday's Roundtable mining audiences manager Michael McCrae and Kitco correspondent Paul Harris talked about yet another big M&A in the gold sector. Early this month number one gold miner Newmont made a $16.9 billion offer for number seven ranked Newcrest. This week Newcrest said the offer under values the company. McCrae and Harris also talked about LG Chem buying a stake in Piedmont Lithium.    

Newcrest rejects the Newmont acquisition bid but leaves the door open to negotiations. Ridgeline publishes results from Swift, while Troilus Gold, & EMX Royalty also have new drill results. Blackwolf Copper and Gold have an udpated resource estimation out for Niblack. Orla updates its exploration strategy at Cerro Quema. Piedmont Lithium signs a $75M equity agreement with LG Chem. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Western Copper and Gold is focused on developing the world-class Casino project in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Casino project consists of an impressive 11 billion pounds of copper and 21 million ounces of gold in an overall resource. Western Copper and Gold trades on the TSX and the NYSE American with WRN. Be sure to follow the company via their website, www.westerncopperandgold.com. ASCU is an early-stage copper developer and explorer of the Cactus Mine and its satellite project, Parks/Salyer, both situated on a 4km mine trend on private land in Arizona's porphyry copper district. Opportunity for significant growth and scale exist along the trend, while future capex requirements outlined in the Cactus PEA benefit from significant onsite and nearby access to infrastructure. The Company is led by an executive management team and Board which have a long-standing track record of successful project delivery in North America. For more information, please visit www.arizonasonoran.com. Fireweed Metals is advancing 3 different projects within the Yukon and Northwest Territories, including the flagship Macmillan Pass Project, a large zinc-lead-silver deposit and the Mactung Project, one of the largest and highest-grade tungsten deposits in the world. Fireweed plans to advance these projects through exploration, resource definition, metallurgy, engineering, economic studies and collaboration with indigenous people on the path to production. For more information please visit fireweedmetals.com.

In this is 4.5 hour conference you will learn from some of the smartest minds in battery metals sector including Andy Miller and Daisy Jennings of Benchmark Minerals Intelligence, Corinne Blanchard of Deutsche Bank, Joe Lowry of the Global Lithium Podcast and Hanna Schweitz of WMC Energy. You will also get updates from some of the best lithium and manganese companies in the world including Critical Elements Lithium, Euro Manganese, Frontier Lithium, Li-Metal, Lithium Ionic, Piedmont Lithium, and Standard Lithium. Agenda 00:00 Intro 00:02:30 Benchmark Minerals Intelligence - Andy Miller, COO 00:24:20 Critical Elements Lithium - Jean-Sebastien Lavallee, CEO 00:42:21 Benchmark Minerals Intelligence - Daisy Jennings 00:54:58 Euro Manganese - Matt James, CEO 01:17:03 Hanna Schweitz – WMC Energy 01:35:58 Frontier Lithium - Trevor Walker, CEO 02:03:32 Lithium Ionic - Blake Hylands, CEO 02:24:20 Joe Lowry – Global Lithium LLC, President 02:46:35 Li-Metal - Kunal Phalpher, President 03:03:01 Deutsche Bank - Corinne Blanchard 03:20:02 Piedmont Lithium - Keith Phillips, CEO 03:46:44 Standard Lithium Robert Mintak, CEO 04:09:42 General Motors - David Paterson, VP of Corporate and Environmental Affairs 04:32 23 Conclusion Waiver & Disclaimer If you register for this podcast/interview you agree to the following; This podcast/interview is provided for information purposes only. Presenters will not be providing legal or financial advice to any webinar/interview participants or any person watching a recorded version of the podcast/interview. All webinar/interview participants or any person watching a recorded version of this webinar should obtain independent legal and financial advice. All podcast/interview participants accept and grant permission to Bloor Street Capital Inc. and its representatives in connection with such recording. The information contained in this podcast/interview is current as of January the 6th, 2023, the date of this podcast/interview, unless otherwise indicated, and is provided for information purposes only. This information is in a summary form and does not purport to be complete. It is not intended to be relied upon as financial or legal advice to investors or potential investors.

Piedmont Lithium (ASX: PLL) president and chief executive officer Keith Phillips joins Small Caps to discuss the latest progress made at the company's North American Lithium (NAL) operation in Canada. Piedmont and its joint venture partner Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA) fed 4,000 tonnes of spodumene ore into the plant last month as part of the concentrator commissioning process, with automation, electrical and mechanical circuits checked and tested by pre‐operational verification teams. The operation is expected to initially produce around 220,000t per year of 6% spodumene concentrate, which equates to about 30,000tpa of lithium carbonate equivalent. Work on restarting the concentrator had reached almost 90% by the end of December with all critical equipment and environmental approvals received. Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/sayona-piedmont-complete-trial-ore-feed-north-american-lithium-project/https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-sayona-close-in-first-spodumene-north-american-lithium-joint-venture/https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-lithium-beefs-up-board-addition-two-experienced-executives/https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-lithium-tesla-agreement-spodumene-offtake-north-american-project/ For more information on Piedmont Lithium:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/PLL/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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About 30 miles from Charlotte, Piedmont Lithium is seeking to open a lithium mine. But some nearby landowners aren't so keen on the project. We sit down with an area resident as well as two energy reporters and analysts.

*** This episode is best experienced on video exclusively at our "Building Belmont Podcast" YouTube channel. You may view the episode here! On the evening of October 12, 2022 the Belmont Trolley Board hosted an event to share the vision of Belmont Trolley Inc. and give a status update on the project. The event was well attended by leaders in the community to include Belmont City Council members, local business owners, and sponsorship partners from Piedmont Lithium, UNC Charlotte, and Keynote Speaker Jason Roberts from the Better Block Foundation. To get involved in the Belmont Trolley Project visit this link: https://belmonttrolley.org/interest   To learn more about Jason and the Better Block Foundation, click here: https://www.betterblock.org/about

This past week the United States Department Of Energy announced several grants to battery metal miners, noted mining audiences manager Michael McCrae. On Friday McCrae recorded Kitco Roundtable with Kitco correspondent Paul Harris. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act included a provision to fund energy transition. It incentivized companies to build battery metal manufacturing facilities in the U.S.This past week notable announcements were Piedmont Lithium getting $141.7 million for a Tennessee lithium processing plant, Talon Metals getting $114 million for a battery minerals processing facility in North Dakota and Syrah Resources getting $220 million for an anode plant in Louisiana.

Keanu interviews Tim Johnson, Principal of HELT Design. HELT Design, formerly known as C.L. Helt, is a nationally renowned Belmont based design and architecture firm. HELT is responsible for local treasures like The Jailhouse, Stowe Park, Piedmont Lithium's new headquarters, The Trolley Barn (coming soon), & the Dynamo 31 Development (coming soon). Interested in partnering with Building Belmont to promote your business or your mission? We are accepting financial and strategic partners. Email us to learn more: connect@buildingbelmont.comSupport Building Belmont: Buy Me A Coffee (One-time financial gift)https://www.buymeacoffee.com/buildingbelmontFollow on Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/buildingbelmontpodcast/Available on all podcast platforms.

每日英語跟讀 Ep.K449: Passage of Climate Bill Sparks a Surge in Clean Energy Projects In the weeks since President Joe Biden signed a comprehensive climate bill devised to spur investment in electric cars and clean energy, corporations have announced a series of big-ticket projects to produce the kind of technology the legislation aims to promote. 自從美國總統拜登簽署一項全面性氣候法案，擬定刺激電動車和潔淨能源投資，數周以來企業已宣布一系列大規模計畫，大量研發法案設定要推廣的科技。 Toyota said it would invest an additional $2.5 billion in a factory in North Carolina to produce batteries for electric cars and hybrids. Honda and LG Energy Solution announced a joint venture to build a $4.4 billion battery factory at a location to be named. 豐田說，將在北卡羅來納州一間製造電動車和油電車電池的工廠，追加投資25億美元。本田和愛爾集新能源宣布一項合資案，以44億美元建造電池工廠，地點之後公布。 Piedmont Lithium, a mining company, said it would build a plant in Tennessee to process lithium for batteries, helping to ease America's dependence on Chinese refineries — a key aim of the Biden administration. First Solar, a big solar panel manufacturer, said it would invest up to $1.2 billion to build its fourth factory in the United States, probably somewhere in the Southeast, largely because of renewable energy incentives in the climate bill. 礦業公司Piedmont Lithium說，將在田納西州建造工廠，加工用於電池的鋰，協助減少美國對中國精煉廠的依賴，這是拜登政府的一項主要目標。大型太陽能板製造商第一太陽能說，將投資高達12億美元，在美國建造第四座工廠，可能將在東南部，主因是氣候法案中的再生能源獎勵措施。 But those projects also illustrate how much work remains to be done. Factories take time to build, and until then electric vehicles are likely to remain scarce and expensive. Toyota's factory in North Carolina and Honda's venture with LG will not produce batteries until 2025. 但那些計畫也闡明了有多少工作等待完成。工廠要花時間建造，直到完工前，電動車可能仍然稀少且昂貴。豐田的北卡工廠和本田與愛爾集新能源的合資案，直到2025年才會開始製造電池。 Some of the projects were in the works before the federal legislation passed, and before California added an extra push by banning sales of new gasoline cars by 2035. The big climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, is the latest in a series of policy moves and geopolitical developments that have pushed automakers and suppliers to invest in the United States. The trade war with China, disruption of supply chains by the pandemic, changes in free-trade agreements with Canada and Mexico, and the bipartisan infrastructure law last year have all had a powerful impact on where companies decide to build factories. 這些計畫中的一些，早在聯邦法案通過前就已經開始作業了，並且也在加州追加「2035年之前禁止銷售新汽油車」的法令之前。這項巨大的氣候法案「降低通膨法」是一系列政治動作和地緣政治發展的最新舉措，催促汽車製造商和供應商在美國投資。和中國的貿易戰，疫情造成的供應鏈中斷，與加拿大及墨西哥的自由貿易協定更動，以及去年兩黨通過的基礎建設法案，全都對企業決定建造工廠有著強大影響。 At a time of economic uncertainty, the legislation gives companies more confidence that they can earn a return on their bets. The investments serve as affirmation of political leaders' intent: to further accelerate America's transition away from fossil fuels and to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers, especially those in China. 在經濟不確定的時期，這項立法讓企業更有信心，認為他們的賭注能有回報。這些投資對於政治領袖的意圖如同一種肯定，更進一步加速美國從化石燃料轉型，並且減少對於外國供應商的依賴，特別是中國。 Investment in renewable energy will total $1.2 trillion by 2035, analysts at Wood Mackenzie estimate, substantially more than would have been the case without the legislation. 伍德麥肯茲公司分析師估計，2035年之前投資再生能源總額將達到1.2兆美元，比沒有這項立法的情況下多很多。Source article: https://udn.com/news/story/6904/6636221 歡迎留言告訴我們你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/cl81kivnk00dn01wffhwxdg2s/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Piedmont Lithium (ASX: PLL) chief operating officer Patrick Brindle joins Small Caps to discuss the company's path to near-term cash flow through its 25% interest in the North American Lithium operation in Quebec. Piedmont is advancing the North American Lithium project under a strategic partnership with Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA), with first production expected early next year. Piedmont is also developing a spodumene mine and integrated lithium hydroxide plant in the US to provide lithium chemicals to the numerous nearby US gigafactories. Articles:https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-lithium-atlantic-announce-positive-pfs-ewoyaa-project/https://smallcaps.com.au/piedmont-boosts-management-team-lithium-prices-soar/ For more information on Piedmont Lithium:https://smallcaps.com.au/stocks/PLL/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Austin Devaney (AustinDevaney on Twitter) is the Chief Commercial Officer at Piedmont Lithium and a former executive at Albemarle Topics: Austin's early days in the lithium world How customer needs have evolved Lithium quality requirements for EVs SQM's curious & value destroying “20% price decrease letter” from several years ago Why high prices aren't able to quickly fix high prices in the lithium space The legacy of late lithium projects Shout out to Eric Norris OEMs – slow to understand lithium The Inflation Reduction Act What Elon Musk doesn't understand about the lithium industry Lithium in North Carolina: “Back to the Future” Piedmont's permitting issues Brine vs hard rock Lepidolite – the new high cost umbrella? Why prices will stay high for years Rapid Fire

Piedmont Lithium's big week, Mineral Resources annual results lithium commentary, Rodney's updated lithium outlook/price forecasts and more! #Tesla #lithium #electricvehicles  Video Index 0:00 - 1:19 Introduction 1:20 - 6:08 Piedmont update - Tennessee hydroxide plant and Belmont office opening - excerpt from Senator Tom Tillis' speech 6:09 - 8:29 Piedmont video of its proposed lithium hydroxide plant in Tennessee 8:30 - 12:59 Lithium market update - Rodney shares his views on company earnings announcements and current market pricing   13:00 - 17:35 Rodney and Howard discuss Mineral Resources and their market position in both spodumene and chemicals 17:36 - 24:03 What drives prices? Is it the spodumene price or the chemical price? Where to for spodumene production in the coming years? Will there be more M&A? 24:04 - 28:20 What other battery metals stand to gain from EV demand and the IRA in the US? 28:21 - End Please join us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/lithiumionrocks Please subscribe here on YouTube to Rock Stock Channel to ensure full access to all our free content. And click the 'like' button and comment so we can improve our content going forward. Please register your email at www.rkequity.com  Follow Rodney and Howard on Twitter (@lithiumionbull @lithiumionrocks @RodneyHooper13) and on LinkedIn.  ----- DISCLAIMER NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH Welcome to Rock Stock Channel. Today we start a new series of individual short videos on raw materials companies that we think should benefit from the rising demand from electric vehicles, energy storage and other clean energy technologies. No payment has been paid in connection with the preparation of  this video and all Rodney's comments and research are his own independent opinions. Rodney and Howard are not financial advisors nor broker dealers, this video is for information purposes only and should not be considered investment or financial advice. Please do your own independent research and read the disclaimer at the end of the video or on RK Equity's website www.rkequity.com Intro and outro audio credit: Jamie Klein

YES in My Backyard! Four Americans at Luna Lithium, Talon Metals, ioneer and Piedmont Lithium discuss the bi-partisan consensus to on-shore and "friend shore" clean energy battery metal production for climate, sustainability and national security reasons. The national discussion has shifted from "if" we should mine & process locally to "how" and "where," now supported by a "land of plentiful" government support aimed to level the playing field with China.  #Tesla #battery #ev  0:00 - 2:20 - Introduction 2:21 - 7:10 Emily Hersh CEO of Luna Lithium outlines her view on the importance of having a US-based battery supply chain  7:11 -  15:45 Todd Malan VP Government Affairs at Talon Metals discusses in detail the IRA and the Critical Minerals Tax Provisions within the Act and other related provisions that will encourage the development of projects in the US 15:46 - 26:45 James Calaway, Chairman of ioneer, discusses the potential impact of the IRA and the DOE loan program on ioneer's project  26:46 - 33:20 Austin Devaney VP and Chief Marketing Officer of Piedmont  discusses the IRA's impact on the company and permitting projects in the US 33:21 - 44:15 Emily, Todd and Austin discuss the public perception of mining in the US and the challenges of changing those perceptions and fears 44:16 - 51:15 James Calaway discusses the challenges of developing projects on Federal land in the US  51:16 - 57:02 - Final commentary from all the participants on the future prospects of a US supply chain with locally produced battery materials  57:03 - End Please join us on Patreon at www.patreon.com/lithiumionrocks Please subscribe here on YouTube to Rock Stock Channel to ensure full access to all our free content. And click the 'like' button and comment so we can improve our content going forward. Please register your email at www.rkequity.com  Follow Rodney and Howard on Twitter (@lithiumionbull @lithiumionrocks @RodneyHooper13) and on LinkedIn.  ----- DISCLAIMER NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH Welcome to Rock Stock Channel. Today we start a new series of individual short videos on raw materials companies that we think should benefit from the rising demand from electric vehicles, energy storage and other clean energy technologies. No payment has been paid in connection with the preparation of  this video and all Rodney's comments and research are his own independent opinions. Rodney and Howard are not financial advisors nor broker dealers, this video is for information purposes only and should not be considered investment or financial advice. Please do your own independent research and read the disclaimer at the end of the video or on RK Equity's website www.rkequity.com Intro and outro audio credit: Jamie Klein

Piedmont Lithium (PLL) is a producer of lithium hydroxide. CEO, Keith Phillips, gives an overview of the company. He discusses how car manufacturers, like Tesla (TSLA) require lithium as part of every E.V. battery. He talks about how PLL is developing an integrated lithium business in the U.S. and how rising costs due to inflation is effecting the company. He then goes over the importance of mining lithium in the U.S. Tune in to find out more.

Keith Phillips - aka The BOSS at Piedmont Lithium - interviewed by Rodney Hooper of RK Equity at Mines & Money and Ryan Castilloux after his presentation at Adamas Intelligence North American Critical Minerals Conference October 19-20, 2021 0 - Introduction 0:34 - Keith Phillips updated Piedmont Presentation at Adamas Intelligence conference 13:25 - Thoughts on Tesla using more LFP for some vehicles? 15:00 - How are shareholders protected against an opportunistic take-over bid given the relatively low valuation for Carolina Lithium Project? 17:20 - Would M&A interest come from China or ex-China? 19:11 - Update on Sayona spodumene off-take agreement pricing - $500 (floor) - $900 (ceiling) and timing for first start-up? 21:30 - Is Sayona Quebec going to blend material with North American Lithium? Does Sayona's purchase of Moblan change any plans? 24:25 - Update on Iron Ridge Resources investment/JV? 28:33 - Update/impact on new mining ordinances in North Carolina? 31:00 - Impact on new USA plant announcements (eg, Ford, Redwood) for localized lithium hydroxide demand in North America? 34:35 - Sustainability/ESG attributes of Carolina Lithium - how is land, water and CO2 footprint so low relative to peers? NOTE: Visit www.adamasintel.com for all presentations from their recent North America Critical Minerals Conference. NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH If you like this video, please click the 'like' button and please also comment so we can improve our content going forward. And please register your email at www.rkequity.com and follow Rodney and me on Twitter (@lithiumionbull @RodneyHooper13) and on LinkedIn. Please also subscribe here on YouTube to Rock Stock Channel to ensure full access to all our free content. And finally, if you find value in our content, please consider joining us on Patreon at patreon.com/rockstockchannel Intro and outro audio credit: Jamie Klein DISCLAIMER RK Equity is an advisory firm run by Howard Klein and Rodney Hooper. We are exclusively focused on raising awareness about companies producing or developing the next generation critical raw materials that are powering Tesla's EV Battery Energy Transition, including lithium, nickel, graphite, rare earths and other technology metals. We also track the growing number of EV Battery themed stocks going public through Special Purpose Acquisition Companies. Our clients include developers of greenfield raw materials projects as well as large strategic investors, and investment managers seeking to allocate capital to this rapidly growing sector. Rodney and Howard are not financial advisors or broker dealers and nothing you hear in this video is investment advice. Please do your own research and read the disclaimer at the end of this video or on our website.

New drill results from Integra's DeLamar project. Piedmont Lithium and Elevation Gold both publish new mineral resource estimates. A NorZinc PEA for Prairie Creek. New Found Gold raise $48M. We'd like to thank our sponsors: Integra Resources is advancing the past-producing DeLamar Project in southwestern Idaho. The Company has continued to demonstrate resource growth and conversion through greenfield and brownfield exploration and plans on delivering a pre-feasibility study in Q4 2021 to further de-risk and advance the project towards permitting. Integra Resources trades on the TSX-V under ITR and the NYSE American under ITRG. Corvus Gold is a North American gold exploration and development company, focused on its near-term gold-silver mining projects in southwestern Nevada. The Company holds a commanding land position within the Bullfrog Mining District. Neighbouring, adjacent projects controlled by AngloGold Ashanti, Kinross Gold and Coeur Mining highlight this active District. The two 100% owned North Bullfrog & Mother Lode projects have a combined nearly 4-Million oz gold of in-pit resource and continues to grow with an on-going, successful, resource expansion drill program. Corvus trades on the TSX and the Nasdaq with the symbol KOR. Western Copper and Gold is focused on developing the world-class Casino project in Canada's Yukon Territory. The Casino project consists of an impressive 11 billion pounds of copper and 21 million ounces of gold in an overall resource. Western Copper and Gold trades on the TSX and the NYSE American with WRN. Be sure to follow the company via their website, www.westerncopperandgold.com. Rio-2 is advancing the Fenix Gold Project in Chile, the largest undeveloped gold heap leach project in the Americas. Fenix consists of 5 million ounces in the measured and indicated resource category and 1.4 million ounces in the inferred resource category. With a robust PFS in place, Fenix is set up for fast-tracked construction and production. You can find a list of project and company information on their website, rio2.com.

Show #1167.   If you get any value from this podcast please consider supporting my work on Patreon. Plus all Patreon supporters get their own unique ad-free podcast feed.   Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Wednesday 4th August. It's  Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to.   Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they've built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It's a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too.   VOLKSWAGEN ID.5 GTX PROTOTYPE REVIEW   - The next addition to Volkswagen's family of 'ID' electric cars will be the ID.5 – the coupe version of the practical, spacious and entirely conventional ID.4 SUV   - As with the ID.4, there'll be an entry-level, single-motor, rear-wheel-drive ID.5, however this is the fastest version of the forthcoming coupe-SUV: the ID.5 GTX, which features a dual-motor setup for all-wheel-drive and a healthy power output of 295bhp – the same as the ID.4 GTX.   - Both confirmed ID.5 variants use the same 77kWh battery   - While the ID.5 prototype we drove was still wrapped in camouflage, you can tell there have been a few changes from the ID.4. At the front, the ID.5 GTX gets the same face as the ID.4 GTX, while the rear not only gets a sweeping roofline, it also features a large spoiler.   - the maximum charging speed of 125kW; it's not horrifically slow, but even before the ID.5 has launched, it's lagging behind similarly priced rivals like the Kia EV6 and Hyundai Ioniq 5 which can recharge at Porsche Taycan-like speeds of up to 220kW thanks to their 800v charging systems. Volkswagen is believed to be working on increased charging speeds by means of a software update   Original Source : https://www.drivingelectric.com/volkswagen/id5/40761/volkswagen-id5-gtx-prototype-review   NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW 2021 CANCELLED   - The upcoming 2021 New York International Automobile Show has been cancelled due to the growing incidences of the Covid-19 Delta variant and the increased measures announced by local officials to stop its spread.   Original Source : https://www.autofutures.tv/2021/08/05/new-york-international-auto-show-2021-cancelled-due-to-spread-of-covid-19-variant/   LA AUTO SHOW RETURNS WITH EV FOCUS   - After a 24-month hiatus, the Los Angeles Auto Show is getting ready to take over the Los Angeles Convention Center come November.   - With migration to electric fleets atop automakers' minds and Gov. Gavin Newsom's mandate that all new cars and passenger trucks sold in California be zero-emission vehicles by 2035, the show's spotlights will largely focus on all things electric.   - EV-makers will have the chance to offer test drives to consumers on a 45,000-square-foot indoor test track   Original Source : https://labusinessjournal.com/news/2021/aug/02/la-auto-show-returns-ev-focus   FORD SLATED TO SPEND MORE ON EVS THAN ON CONVENTIONAL VEHICLES IN 2023   - For the first time in its 118-year history, Ford Motor Co. plans to spend more on electrified vehicles than it does on internal combustion engine vehicles starting in 2023, an executive said Monday.   - chief operating officer for North America, Lisa Drake, mentioned the 2023 timeline while discussing the automaker's investments in electric vehicles. Earlier this year, Ford said it was increasing its investments in electrification to $30 billion through 2025.   Original Source : https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2021/08/02/ford-slated-spend-more-evs-than-conventional-vehicles-2023/5454545001/   HYUNDAI CLAIMS IONIQ 5 EV WILL DOMINATE TESLA MODEL Y   - Hyundai claims the Ioniq 5, the first model from its all-electric Ioniq sub-brand, will beat all comers in fast-charging rate. In an interview with Automotive News, Ryan Miller, manager of electrified powertrain development at the Hyundai Kia America Technical Center, explained why the company is expecting that the Ioniq 5 will "dominate" all competitors in miles of range added at fast-charging stops—including the Tesla Model Y.   - Many automakers advertise a high peak charging rate, but that may only be achievable very briefly, after which the charging rate starts to decline, slowing charging speed. In optimal conditions, the Ioniq 5's battery pack can maintain charging rates of more than 200 kilowatts from a 10% state of charge to about 55%, Miller said.   - It places individual battery cells in direct contact with a cooling plate, allowing for very rapid cooling during fast charging, Miller said.   Original Source : https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1133092_hyundai-claims-ioniq-5-tesla-model-y-in-miles-of-range-added-fast-charging   NC MINE DELAY COULD AFFECT TESLA'S 2022–2023 LITHIUM SUPPLY   - Tesla's lithium supply for next year could be affected by a North Carolina mining project's failure to stick to the agreed production timeline. Last year, Tesla signed a supply agreement with Piedmont Lithium, a company developing a lithium project in Gaston County, North Carolina. The EV manufacturer agreed to buy about one-third of Piedmont's planned 1,600,000 tonnes annual spodumene lithium production for at least five years.   - Piedmont Lithium told Reuters that it would delay first shipments of lithium chemicals to Tesla and that it does not have a definitive date for when deliveries could begin.   - The company plans to apply for a North Carolina mining permit this month, but the state may now delay or even block it.   Original Source : https://insideevs.com/news/524197/tesla-piedmont-lithium-supplier-delays/   GLOBAL LITHIUM SHORTAGE COULD PUT BRAKES ON UK ELECTRIC CAR SALES ACCELERATION   - The brakes could be put on the UK's accelerating electric vehicle sales because of a worldwide shortage of lithium needed for car batteries, experts have warned.The importance of securing a supply of the vital metal was highlighted as carmakers pour billions of pounds into electrifying their future fleets.   - The UK, which has committed to cut emissions to net zero by 2050, currently has no commercial lithium production and the industry is in its infancy. Meanwhile, the call for materials critical for new green technologies is soaring worldwide.   - It is forecast lithium demand could triple by 2025 to one million tonnes per year and then double again to two million tonnes per year by 2030.   Original Source : https://news.sky.com/story/rapid-uk-electric-car-sales-threatened-with-brakes-by-global-lithium-shortage-12370843   EV BATTERY MANUFACTURERS CONCENTRATING ON MATERIAL PROCUREMENT   - LG Energy Solution, SK Innovation and Samsung SDI recently announced their plans for electric vehicle battery material procurement and development in order to overcome the ongoing undersupply and improve their technologies at the same time.   - South Korean battery material suppliers are increasing their investment as well. POSCO Chemical is going to build a cathode material plant with an annual production capacity of 60,000 tons in South Korea and approximately 600 billion won will be invested to that end starting from next year.   Original Source : http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html   AFP LAUNCHES SPECIALIST ELECTRIC VAN FLEET TRANSITION COURSE   - The Association of Fleet Operators (AFP) has introduced its first-ever electric van course for fleets making the switch.   - The course, which will first take place on Thursday 9 September, will follow a similar format to the industry body's existing one-day electric car course, which was launched earlier this year.   - Training comprises five modules – the eLCV ecosystem, vehicles, evaluation, total cost of ownership and operations, and future state.   Original Source : https://fleetworld.co.uk/afp-launches-specialist-electric-van-fleet-transition-course/   CITY LAUNCHES EV READY DEALERSHIP PROGRAM   - The City of Albuquerque introduced a new Electrified Dealer Program designed to enhance the electric vehicle (EV) purchasing experience and help increase EV purchasing and leasing in the Albuquerque area. Through this program, local dealers can take advantage of specialized EV training and educational materials.   - Dealership training lasts approximately one hour twice a year and covers how to engage with prospective EV buyers, EV charging overview, and an overview of Albuquerque's EV programming. Dealers are required to have EV inventory and charging stations on their lots. Dealerships must also actively sell EVs and share their monthly EV sales data with the City.   Original Source : https://www.cabq.gov/environmentalhealth/news/city-launches-ev-ready-dealership-program   OLA ELECTRIC SCOOTER TO LAUNCH ON AUGUST 15   - Ola Electric is set to launch an electric scooter in India. Last evening, Ola's CEO Bhavish Aggarwal revealed that the much-awaited electric scooter will be unveiled on August 15   - Ola Electric has set up a massive factory to manufacture these scooters and since the first phase of this factory is complete, the company is now planning to launch the scooter for the public. The factory once complete will be able to make over 2 million scooters every year which will allow Ola to not only sell it in India but export the scooter to other global markets as well.   - Ahead of the launch, Ola has said that its scooter will be one the best in its category when it comes to speed, range, boot space as well as technology used. The new EV will be available in ten colour options and most importantly the company aims to build an Ola Hypercharger Network of more than 100,000 charging points across 400 cities in India.   Original Source : https://www.techradar.com/news/ola-electric-scooter-to-launch-on-august-15   GAME-CHANGER? BOUNCE TURNS OLD SCOOTERS INTO ELECTRIC VEHICLES   Original Source : https://www.deccanherald.com/city/game-changer-bounce-turns-old-scooters-into-electric-vehicles-1015994.html   NORWAY'S OLDEST? MEET THE 100-YEAR-OLD EV OWNER   Original Source : https://elbil.no/norges-eldste-mot-100-aringen-som-gikk-ut-og-kjopte-elbil/   QUESTION OF THE WEEK WITH EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM   What's the ideal location for a charging port on any EV? Petrol filler caps are usually in the same location and forecourts all the look the same. Is it time we encouraged EV makers and charging suppliers to standardize socket location and charger design?   Email me your thoughts and I'll read them out on Sunday – hello@evnewsdaily.com   It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast.   And  if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing.   Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, I'll catch you tomorrow and remember…there's no such thing as a self-charging hybrid.   PREMIUM PARTNERS PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE BRAD CROSBY PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI AUDI CINCINNATI EAST VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST NATIONAL CAR CHARGING ON THE US MAINLAND AND ALOHA CHARGE IN HAWAII DEREK REILLY FROM THE EV REVIEW IRELAND YOUTUBE CHANNEL RICHARD AT RSEV.CO.UK – FOR BUYING AND SELLING EVS IN THE UK EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM/

Piedmont Lithium Inc (ASX:PLL) (NASDAQ:PLL) CEO Keith Phillips tells Proactive the lithium developer has established a strategic partnership with IronRidge Resources Ltd (LON:IRR) to invest in its Ewoyaa Project in Ghana. Phillips says this will take place through the purchase of an equity stake in IRR, staged project investments to earn a 50% stake in IRR's Ghana-based portfolio and a binding supply agreement for 50% of IRR's Ghana-planned spodumene concentrate production. Meanwhile, Phillips says Piedmont and bid partner Sayona Mining are a step closer to finalizing their North American Lithium purchase and establishing a lithium hub in Québec.

As the world moves toward a low-Carbon future, there is a growing range of technology and equipment facilitating the transition to more sustainable energy sources.  In the transportation and energy production sectors, electric vehicle (EV) developments have expanded demand and interest in sustainable battery storage. When looking for sustainable solutions, many see the City of Charlotte and the 15-county region as a growing hub for the Lithium and EV market. Last month, the CLT Alliance partnered with SelectUSA and the U.S. Embassy Japan to showcase our region as a leader in this emerging market. You can listen to that presentation here. Today, we followed up with local lithium supplier Piedmont Lithium and spoke with their Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, David Klanecky for a deeper dive into the world of Lithium, EVs, and battery storage to find out why the Charlotte Region is making such a major impact on this industry worldwide 

Piedmont Lithium Inc (ASX:PLL) (NASDAQ:PLL) CEO Keith Phillips tells Proactive its updated scoping study has confirmed that its Carolina Lithium Project will be one of the world's largest and lowest-cost sustainable producers of lithium hydroxide. Phillips says the latest report is based on a mineral resource estimate, updated in April 2021, indicating that the project contains 39 million tonnes of resource at 1.09% lithium hydroxide. Carolina Lithium's after-tax net present value has also jumped to US$1.9 billion and its estimated to bring in US$400 million every year in EBITDA. Phillips also updated on its strategic partnership with Sayona Mining Ltd (ASX:SYA) (OTCMKTS: DMNXF) and its investment in Sayona Québec Inc.

The electric vehicle race is on and a North Carolina company is positioned to lead the way in providing lithium batteries. We talk government regulation, incentives, environmental concerns and what a proposed mining project could mean for the region. Panelists: Antjuan Seawright, Founder and CEO, Blueprint Strategy J. Michael Bitzer, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Politics Catawba College

We're kicking off a mini-series focused on North Carolina's role in the storage industry, starting from supply-chain, then highlighting research and innovation, and finishing off with markets and policy. On this episode, we're highlighting the supply chain of storage and batteries here in North Carolina. We sit down and talk with Brian Risinger of Piedmont Lithium to highlight western North Carolina's spodumene resource – a mineral used to make lithium ion batteries. We'll talk about the process of extracting and refining this resource, along with the advantages of onshoring this industry that's so important to the future of electric vehicles and storage. On this episode we also provide some short highlights from the NC legislative session to date and bills introduced. We also briefly touch on the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. To wrap us up, Daniel Pate, NCSEA's Energy Program Manager takes us on another virtual tour of installed clean energy projects on the NC Solar Traveler. On today's episode we're focused on Hertford and Northampton counties. Presented by NC Sustainable Energy Association. Hosted and produced by Matt Abele (Twitter: @MattAbele)

Les sous-sols américains sont très riches en lithium, mais les États-Unis ne produisent que 1% de la production mondiale annuelle. La donne pourrait changer : en février dernier, le président américain a publié un décret ordonnant un examen stratégique des chaînes d'approvisionnement en ressources critiques, notamment le lithium, essentiel à la croissance du secteur des véhicules électriques. Le lithium est un élément clé des batteries rechargeables des véhicules électriques et les constructeurs automobiles américains se sont engagés à convertir l'essentiel de leur flotte au cours des deux prochaines décennies. L’administration américaine est, pour sa part, préoccupée de la dépendance actuelle des États-Unis vis-à-vis de l’Australie, du Chili et de la Chine pour l’approvisionnement en lithium. Le gouvernement dénonce une « vulnérabilité stratégique » pour l'économie américaine. Tout concourt donc a priori pour conduire à l’essor de la production de lithium américain, d’autant que le sous-sol en est riche. Mais l’extraction du matériau est complexe et coûteuse, ce qui a jusqu'ici limité les investissements. Cela est en train de changer : la société Piedmont Lithium, en Caroline du Nord, se prépare à ouvrir l'une des premières grandes mines de lithium aux États-Unis depuis des décennies. La société prévoit d’investir plus de 500 millions de dollars et a annoncé avoir déjà signé un accord pour fournir le constructeur Tesla. Un pari financier D'autres explorations sont en cours dans les sous-sols du Nevada, de la Californie et de l’Arkansas. Un pari financier, car aux prix actuels, le lithium américain est trop cher à extraire, donc peu compétitif. Mais Piedmont mise sur une hausse des prix : les analystes s'attendent en effet à ce que la croissance des voitures électriques fasse tripler la demande de lithium au cours des cinq prochaines années, dépassant de loin l'offre actuelle. Une fois opérationnelle, Piedmont Lithium prévoit de produire 22 700 tonnes de matériau raffiné. Cela sera bien supérieur à la production américaine actuelle, mais toujours insuffisant pour répondre à la demande prévue.

Episode 82 features Marco Romero, CEO of Euro Manganese. We discuss the manganese market especially as it relates to lithium batteries and then take a deep dive into the company's project in the Czech Republic. In a separate segment of this podcast you will also hear my candid thoughts on Piedmont Lithium's supply contract with Tesla and SQM's recent ESG announcement and 2020 sales/production guidance. The Euro Manganese Project entails re-processing a significant manganese deposit hosted in historic mine tailings, strategically located in the heart of Europe, approximately 90km east of Prague. EMN's goal is to become a leading, competitive and environmentally superior supplier of Ultra-High-Purity Manganese Products, serving both the lithium-ion battery industry, as well as producers of specialty steel and aluminum alloys.

Virgin Galactic announces the launch date of there new ship on October 22 and the stock rallied. Piedmont Lithium today announced a 5 year partnership with Tesla to be a supplier of Lithium. Apple and Epic Games still in a court battle for breach of contract by Epic Games in the iOS app store. Inovio was paused today in it's Phase 3 vaccine trial by the FDA. The Dow rallied 500 points today on talks of a new stimulus by congress on the horizon. NIO begins deliveries of there EC6 SUV.

Today on The Leaders' Brief - Opinion poll suggests that Jacinda Arden's Labour Party, which was looking at a comfortable victory to be elected for a second term, may not be able to do it alone. But, with the Green Party as coalition partners, Jacinda Arden is expected to see a second term as Prime Minister. Presently, the Green Party has its support base at 7%. The European Union's Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy wrote an open letter to change the listing of six Taiwan member cites as belonging to China on its website. The listing had sparked some protest from Taiwan, which saw it as being in line with Beijing's belief that Taiwan is a part of China. Australian miner Piedmont Lithium announced that it had signed a five-year deal with electric automaker Tesla to supply high-purity lithium ore mineral. Piedmont believes the deal is the beginning of its first US domestic lithium supply chain. About egomonk: Website | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedInegomonk is a global intelligence platform delivering asymmetric outcomes by bringing organizations closer to the communities they want to serve and the leaders they wish to influence. If you wish to collaborate with us then email us at contact@egomonk.com.