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As i have posted before, i believe we are all looking at to many negatives. Why would LLL be slammed by this whole new law when KODAL runs off down the street in the clear, yet we had a license 2 years before them.
Lets just chill and see what next week brings. And yes the silence is not handy from LLL at all as it allows a lot of clowns on here to talk a lot of SH#T and have the Rumer mill fester up.

London-listed miner says Mali lithium project not hit by new law

22nd September 2023

By: Bloomberg

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London-listed Kodal Minerals said its lithium project in Mali won’t be impacted by new legislation that entitles the state to a greater share of the West African nation’s mining assets.

On August 29, Mali’s military head of state Assimi Goita signed the law, which doubles the stake the authorities can acquire to 20% and sets aside an additional 5% of shares for “national investors.” The authorities had already said the updated law won’t apply to the established gold operations that have long dominated the country’s mining industry – such as Barrick Gold Corp.’s Loulo-Gounkoto and B2Gold’s Fekola assets.

Mali’s National Directorate of Geology and Mines has confirmed that Kodal’s license to mine the Bougouni lithium project will be “administered in accordance” with the terms of the previous law, the firm said in a statement Friday.

The boom in lithium, a key battery metal, has kick-started a race for deposits. Mining heavyweights, battery manufacturers and automakers from Rio Tinto Plc to Tesla Inc. are chasing deals as they look to secure future supplies.

Kodal is vying with Australia’s Leo Lithium Ltd. to bring Mali’s first lithium mine to production. Kodal was awarded its license in late 2021, while Leo Lithium was given the right to develop the Goulamina asset in August 2019.

Leo Lithium suspended trading of its shares on September 19 pending an announcement on the application of the revised mining code to its project.

Mali has been beset by instability since a jihadist insurgency began in 2012, and has experienced two military coups over the past three years. Since the last army takeover in 2021, the junta has ordered the departure of a 13 000-strong United Nations force and allowed hundreds of personnel from Russia’s Wagner mercenary group to help combat the Islamist militants.