For me this is a very positive announcement. These sorts of...

For me this is a very positive announcement. These sorts of agreements will likely become more and more common. I read this article on the weekend which identified that up to 54% energy transition minerals and metals projects (which would include Li projects such as Big Sandy) are impacted by linkage with indigenous concerns.

The easy to read version is in this The Conversation article: https://theconversation.com/54-of-projects-extracting-clean-energy-minerals-overlap-with-indigenous-lands-research-reveals-195438

For those interested, the article contains a link to the detailed study published online in Nature Sustainability on Dec 1,2022 [here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00994-6 ]

For me it contained a really interesting map:


The data identifies Li projects as having a high 'geography of interest' and overlap with indigenous peoples concerns, And the global map shows that there are a significant locales where the distribution of mining projects contain an indigenous 'geography of interest' only as being significant in North America, including the location of where AZL's Big Sandy would be located.





Note: Red circle is not to scale but just for illustrative purposes