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Originally posted by dawgfather: ↑

Gina did exactly what you've just described over at LTR. Was paying up near $3 a share from memory - LTR now at 78 cents...

Plenty of speculating as to what her motives were / are. Maybe with hindsight it was a mistake? Or maybe she's got very long term ambitions? Sometimes people assume that rich people know everything and never make mistakes, but this is definitely not true. Look at MINs mistakes with their 19.9% stake on WC8 as well as purchases of DLI (both make no sense given current prices).

I'm also pretty sure that if Ana over at Sigma was given her time again, she probably would have accepted one of the likely bids that were more than likely on the table in early 2023 when Sigma was trading between $30-$40 a share.

So rich/senior people are also capable of poor capital deployment.

Also, the term blocking stake just means any stake above 10% (because it allows the holder to block a compulsory acquisition which requires 90% of shares).

Something that came up in a chat with another investor today is the idea that FIRB approval process for a potential foreign counter bidder (e.g. China) can probably be avoided if another bidder proposed a takeover whereby they acquire the legal entity through which LRS operates in Brazil (Belo Lithium Mineracao Ltda) - rather than buying all of the shares in LRS.

Whereas, if a foreign bidder wants to acquire Colina by acquiring all the shares in LRS - this would likely invoke FIRB because it would mean acquiring an ASX listed company.

Obviously FIRB is not applicable if the counter-bidder were to be a domestic entity such as a Rio Tinto.

PLS has clearly signalled that now is an excellent time (for companies with a big enough balance sheet) to make moves on stranded assets like LRS which have Tier 1 assets, but lack the balance sheet to execute. This should (theoretically) mean that companies like RIO or maybe the Chinese who have large balance sheets may be interested in Colina.

North america is an interesting question as well. Colina is the #1 best placed asset to provide a supply of high quality spod to america by late 2026 - the shipping costs are very cheap. However, there's obviously the question of american companies having enough foresight and confidence to actually put their money where their mouths are (which is what the chinese have been doing for years now).

The quality of Colina has me still holding all my shares, because I know that quality assets are at least some chance of a counter-bid.

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Thanks for your response dawg, I'm also continuing to hold and hoping for a counter bid but if that doesn't eventuate, I will take the PLS deal for the same reasons I was holding LRS i.e. I believe Li will have a resurgence and I want to be involved in that.

LRS Price at posting: 21.5¢ Sentiment: None Disclosure: Held
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