Ann: IGO: Lithium Joint Venture to Acquire Essential Metals Limit, page-127

I agree with your earlier post and particularly with your comment that MIN are the natural owners of Pioneer Dome. There will be others interested now that it is on the auction block. Anyone interested in what MIN (Chris Ellison) might pay should have a look at the deal he did with PNR and TUL for lithium rights only, on ground just south of the Pioneer Dome leases. On a comparative basis ESS should be well north of $1. There will be others coming out of the woodwork now someone has put a low price on the assets, and they are in play. Someone has posted a top twenty list which is well out of date and probably misleading.
The current deal does not finalise till April, and no one will be in a great hurry to rush in. They will all likely wait for someone else to start the game. Once there are higher offers on the table the no talk clauses become non-binding and it is all systems go. This has a long way to go. We are at the very beginning.