Atlas Lithium Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Mitsui & Co ACN Newswire

Atlas Lithium Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Mitsui & Co

Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Jan 18, 2023 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Atlas Lithium Corporation (NASDAQ: ATLX) ("Atlas Lithium" or the "Company"), a mineral exploration company focused on lithium and other battery metals critical to powering the green energy revolution, is pleased to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (the "MOU") with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ("Mitsui) with respect to Mitsui's potential interest in acquiring the right to purchase Atlas Lithium's future lithium concentrate production. Mitsui is a global enterprise headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with $122.3 billion in assets, $96.4 billion in annual revenues, and 44,336 employees in 63 countries, as of its last reported results.In general terms, the MOU contemplates potential funding from Mitsui to Atlas Lithium of up to $65 million (the "Offtake Funding"), in tranches and subject to the achievement of specific milestones acceptable to Mitsui, that would give Mitsui the right to buy up to 100% of Atlas Lithium's production from its planned plant with output capacity of 150,000 tons of lithium concentrate per year (the "Plant"). The Offtake Funding would be primarily used by Atlas Lithium for the construction of the Plant. Lithium concentrate produced by the Plant would then be available for purchase by Mitsui at a price generally based on the then-prevailing market price.Marc Fogassa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Lithium, commented, "Our lithium assets are world-class and therefore we are enthusiastic about the prospects of a long-lasting and mutually rewarding partnership with such a well-known and global-reaching company as Mitsui."The MOU is non-exclusive for both companies. As part of the MOU, Atlas Lithium and Mitsui will also seek to collaborate in other strategic areas.About Atlas Lithium CorporationAtlas Lithium Corporation (NASDAQ: ATLX) is focused on advancing and developing its 100%-owned hard-rock lithium project which consists of 52 mineral rights spread over 56,078 acres (227 km2) and is located primarily in the municipality of Aracuai in the Lithium Valley of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Atlas Lithium also has a separate second lithium project located in Brazil's Northeast region. In total, Atlas Lithium has 100% ownership of mineral rights for almost all battery metals including lithium (293 km2), nickel (222 km2), rare earths (122 km2), titanium (89 km2), and graphite (56 km2), in addition to mining concessions for gold, diamonds, and sand. The Company also owns approximately 45% of Apollo Resources Corp. (private company; iron) and approximately 28% of Jupiter Gold Corp. (OTCQB: JUPGF; gold and quartzite).Safe Harbor StatementThis press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward looking statements are based upon the current plans, estimates and projections of Atlas Lithium Corporation and its subsidiaries (collectively, "Atlas Lithium" or "Company") and are subject to inherent risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ from the forward- looking statements. Such statements include, among others, those concerning market and industry segment growth and demand and acceptance of new and existing products; any projections of production, reserves, sales, earnings, revenue, margins or other financial items; any statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; any statements regarding future economic conditions or performance; uncertainties related to conducting business in Brazil, as well as all assumptions, expectations, predictions, intentions or beliefs about future events. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements: results from ongoing geotechnical analysis of projects; business conditions in Brazil; general economic conditions, geopolitical events and regulatory changes; availability of capital; Atlas Lithium's ability to maintain its competitive position; and dependence on key management.Atlas Lithium advises U.S. investors that its properties and projects, and those of its subsidiaries, as of now, are exploratory and do not have measured "reserves" as such term is defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Additional risks related to the Company and its subsidiaries are more fully discussed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on March 29, 2022, as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and other important factors in the Company's other filings with the SEC, all of which are available at www.sec.gov. In addition, any forward-looking statements represent the Company's views only as of today and should not be relied upon as representing its views as of any subsequent date. The Company explicitly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.Investor Relations:Greg Falesnik or Brooks HamiltonMZ Group - MZ North America+1 (949) 546-6326ATLX@mzgroup.ushttps://www.atlas-lithium.com/@Atlas_Lithium Copyright 2023 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)
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Queensland Gold Hills Announces Acquisition of Mia Lithium Project in Quebec Hosting 8km Spodumene-Pegmatite Trend and Concurrent Private Placement Financing ACN Newswire

Queensland Gold Hills Announces Acquisition of Mia Lithium Project in Quebec Hosting 8km Spodumene-Pegmatite Trend and Concurrent Private Placement Financing

Vancouver, BC, Nov 28, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Queensland Gold Hills Corp. (TSXV: OZAU) (OTCQB: MNNFF) ("Queensland Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with an effective date of November 21, 2022 (the "Purchase Agreement") with 9219-8845 QC Inc., a private Quebec company dba Canadian Mining House ("CMH") and certain investors in CMH ("CMH Nominees") to acquire a 100% interest in the 86 square kilometre Mia Lithium Property (the "Property") in the James Bay area of Quebec, Canada (the "Acquisition").Figure 1 - Mia Lithium Property Regional LocationFigure 2 - Mia Lithium PropertyPresident & CEO Alicia Milne states, "Our entry into the lithium space represents a new value creation opportunity for our shareholders. Quebec is a top global mining jurisdiction and the James Bay region is a highly attractive investment destination for lithium exploration due to its prolific hard rock lithium endowment. We are looking forward to revealing the enormous potential we see in the Mia project."About the Mia Lithium PropertyThe Mia Property is comprised of 170 mineral claims, located 62 km East of Wemindji Community in the Eeyou Itschee Territory, James Bay, Quebec. The lithium mineral showings are located approximately 10 kilometres from the nearest highway.The Property geology is part of the Yasinski Lake area, identified by narrow greenstone belt slivers, belonging to volcanic rocks and related sediment the Yasinski Group and pierced by syn-tectonic tonalite and granodiorite suite. The Property is situated in the western extremity of this geological area, covering various lithologies and favourable structures, known to host spodumene bearing pegmatites. The southern half of the Property covers a northeast limb of the Vieux Comptoir granite and a concordant intrusive body described as a spodumene granite on SIGEOM, the Quebec provincial government's geomining information system: https://sigeom.mines.gouv.qc.ca/signet/classes/I1108_afchCarteIntr.Historical work by Main Exploration Company Ltd. in 1959 (GM10200) reported several spodumene-bearing pegmatites on the Property and mapped an 8.3 km trend of discontinuous pegmatite intrusions. SIGEOM lists nine metallic deposits directly on the Mia Lithium property including two for lithium, namely Mia Li-1 and Mia Li-2. Carte 1879 is listed as a spodumene mineral deposit as no assays were recorded for it.The westernmost mineral showings Mia-Li1 and Mia-Li2 were sampled in 1997 by Quebec government geologists and assays returned grades of 0.47% Li2O and 2.27% Li2O respectively. Numerous pegmatite intrusions have been recorded along the 8.3 km long trend but were never followed up for their lithium potential. The 1959 report also details that the pegmatite dykes are as much as 100 feet (30.5 metres) in width and are commonly zoned, with spodumene crystals described as being as much as 2 feet (0.61 metres) in length.Acquisition Terms:Subject to TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV") acceptance, pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Company will acquire the Property from CMH for total consideration of an aggregate of 13,000,000 common shares of the Company (the "Consideration Shares"), $500,000 (the "Cash Consideration") and $1,000,000 in exploration expenditures as follows:- 6,500,000 Consideration Shares and $200,000 within 3 days of TSXV acceptance of the Acquisition (the "Effective Date");- 6,500,000 Consideration Shares and $150,000 on the six-month anniversary of Effective Date; and- Incur $1,000,000 in exploration expenditures on the Property and $150,000 on the one-year anniversary of the Effective Date (the "Closing Date").The Company will earn a 100% interest in the Property on the Closing Date.CMH has directed that a portion of the Acquisition Shares and Cash Consideration be issued and paid to the CMH Nominees.CMH will retain up to a maximum of a 3% net smelter returns royalty, of which up to 1% can be repurchased by the Company at any time prior to commercial production for $1,000,000. No finder's fee is payable in connection with the Acquisition. The Property is subject to an existing 2% net smelter returns royalty granted by CMH (as assignee) in favour of Franco-Nevada Corporation on certain minerals claims forming a part of the Property as well as an existing 2% net smelter returns royalty granted by CMH in favour of Eastmain Resources Inc. on certain mineral claims forming part of the Property. On the Closing Date, the Company will assume the obligations under these existing royalties.The Acquisition remains subject to TSXV acceptance.Private PlacementQueensland will be conducting a non-brokered private placement of up to 12,500,000 units (each, a "Unit") at a price of $0.10 per Unit for gross proceeds of up to $1,250,000 (the "Offering"). Each Unit will consist of one common share of the Company (each, a "Share") and one half of one common share purchase warrant (each whole warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant exercisable into one additional Share at a price of $0.25 for two years after the date of issuance. Closing of the Offering is subject to the acceptance of the TSXV. The Company intends to use the proceeds of the Offering to commence a comprehensive review of all historical data related to the Mia Lithium Property in preparation for a field exploration campaign and for general working capital.All securities to be issued under the Offering will be subject to a statutory hold period expiring four months and one day from the date of issuance. The Company anticipates that the majority of the subscriptions will be from arm's length parties, although insiders may participate in the Offering. The Company may pay finders' fees on the Offering, as permitted by applicable securities.QP DisclosureNeil McCallum, B.Sc., P.Geo., of Dahrouge Geological Consulting Ltd., a registered permit holder with the Ordre des Geologues du Quebec and Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, supervised the preparation of the technical information in this news release.About QueenslandQueensland Gold Hills is mineral exploration company currently advancing exploration of two gold projects located in the historic goldfields of Queensland, Australia: the Big Hill Gold Project and the Titan Project which collectively cover 110 square kilometers in the Talgai Goldfields of the broader Warwick-Texas District and host 54 high-grade historical gold mines.FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:Alicia Milne President & CEOamilne@queenslandgoldhills.comKevin BottomleyDirectorkbottomley@queenslandgoldhills.comTelephone: 1 (800) 482-7560E-mail: info@queenslandgoldhills.comTwitter: @QLDGoldhillsForward-Looking StatementsThis news release may contain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of applicable Canadian legislation. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as: "believes", "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "estimates", "plans", "may", "should", "would", "will", "potential", "scheduled" or variations of such words and phrases and similar expressions, which, by their nature, refer to future events or results that may, could, would, might or will occur or be taken or achieved. Accordingly, all statements in this news release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements and include statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations and orientations regarding the future including, without limitation, any statements or plans regard the geological prospects of the Company's properties and the future exploration endeavors of the Company. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on a number of material factors and assumptions. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include failure to obtain necessary approvals, unsuccessful exploration results, changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, results of future resource estimates, future metal prices, availability of capital and financing on acceptable terms, general economic, market or business conditions, risks associated with regulatory changes, defects in title, availability of personnel, materials and equipment on a timely basis, accidents or equipment breakdowns, uninsured risks, delays in receiving government approvals, unanticipated environmental impacts on operations and costs to remedy same. Readers are cautioned that mineral exploration and development of mines is an inherently risky business and accordingly, the actual events may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Additional risk factors are discussed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the Company's Management Discussion and Analysis for its recently completed fiscal period, which is available under Company's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)
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New Power to Legend Capital Carbon Neutral Investment Portfolio: Ruicycle Raises Over RMB 300 Million from Series B ACN Newswire

New Power to Legend Capital Carbon Neutral Investment Portfolio: Ruicycle Raises Over RMB 300 Million from Series B

HONG KONG, Aug 8, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Shenzhen Ruicycle Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd (also known as Hengchuang Ruineng), a battery recycling company, recently accomplished the B round of fundraising with over RMB 300 million, which is backed by Legend Capital. This round of fundraising will be mainly used to improve the development of the echelon utilized product series, the construction of new energy retired lithium battery recycling capacity, and the expansion of new lithium battery wet recycling technology.Founded in 2017, Ruicycle is a national high-tech enterprise dedicated to "Making New Energy a Truly Green Energy", deeply engaging in the field of recycling and comprehensive utilization of retired power batteries. It is committed to pursuing the concept of green and low-carbon development. Directing at the end of the new energy industry, Ruicycle has built an industrial ecological closed loop of large-scale automatic safe crushing, zero-pollution treatment, and high-efficiency recycling of lithium batteries based on the core technologies of lithium battery echelon utilization, material regeneration, and new material regeneration. Meanwhile, centering on the national carbon peaking and carbon neutrality policies, Ruicycle has achieved the traceability of carbon footprint and the quantification of carbon reduction, continuously making contributions to low-carbon development for the new energy industrial chain.In 2020, Ruicycle was granted the qualifications of "Echelon Utilization White List" and "Recycling Utilization White List", becoming the fully licensed enterprise in the lithium battery recycling industry. Ruicycles revenue exceeded RMB 1 billion with a CAGR of over 100% in 2021. Now it has been recognized as the first echelon enterprise in China's power battery recycling and comprehensive utilization industry.Ruicycle is the world-first company devoting intelligent management of temperature-sensing cameras to the retired battery storage field. It has established industrial bases for echelon utilization and recycling in Huizhou, Jiangmen, and Ganzhou, respectively, achieving a recycling capacity of 150,000 tons per year of retired power batteries. At the same time, Ruicycle has also been cooperating with Legend Capital's portfolio company Milkyway, a leading dangerous chemicals logistics enterprise, to build a global leading ESG recycling system.CHEN Zhipeng, the founder of Ruicycle, said: "We are a relatively young team. In keeping with the trend of the new energy era, we are eager to learn more from industry predecessors to root in the physical manufacturing industry more deeply. At the same time, we look forward to having more aspiring youngsters join us to create an efficient organization and together make contributions to the globalization of new energy industrialization experience.Legend Capital's investments in the carbon-neutral field focus on energy decarbonization, vehicle electrification/intelligence, synthetic biology, etc. Energy decarbonization includes photovoltaic, wind power, and smart grid; vehicle electrification/intelligence includes lithium battery vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, battery recycling and others.Legend Capital has long been optimistic about investment opportunities in the new energy vehicle industry chain and has invested in a number of automation equipment, lithium batteries, and materials companies, many of which went public successfully, such as Wuxi Lead Intelligent Equipment (300450.SZ), CNGR Advanced Material (300919.SZ), Shanghai Putailai New Energy Technology (603659.SH), Shenzhen Hymson Laser Intelligent Equipments (688559.SH), Shenzhen Colibri Technologies (002957.SZ). At the same time, Legend Capital is also one of the early investors of CATL (300750.SZ).About Legend CapitalFounded in 2001, Legend Capital is a leading VC&PE investor focusing on the early-stage and growth-stage opportunities in China, with offices across Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Seoul, Korea. It currently manages USD and RMB funds of over US$10 billion in commitments, and has invested in around 600 companies, covering technology, healthcare, consumer, enterprise service and intelligent manufacturing sectors. Rooted in China, Legend Capital participated in the rise of many world-leading companies by solid investment coverage and systematic post-investment value-add. Over the years, Legend Capital has also become a widely recognized name in bridging key resources in China and overseas through cross-border activities, and a valuable partner to Chinese and overseas investors. Legend Capital values long-term sustainable investment and incorporates ESG into its long-term development strategy. As a UNPRI signatory since November 2019, Legend Capital is among the first group of top VC/PE firms in China to join the initiative. For more information, please visit www.legendcapital.com.cn/index_en.aspx and follow us on LinkedIn @Legend Capital ( https://www.linkedin.com/company/legend-capital ). Copyright 2022 ACN Newswire. All rights reserved. (via SEAPRWire)
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