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  1. Wheres can this UPI article be found that everyone keeps referring to??

    The Drudge report times out.
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  2. Looking for stoploss on line.
    AOTonline? Challenger.com? Any others? AOT seems reasonable, $33 trade, $49.95/month, free if more than 8 trades/month. If database isn't accessed then $0/month. Seems reasonable, any opinions?
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  3. These guys absolutely suck. I'm sick of them, they are a cancer on the Earth. Do not let them in what ever you do. I guess that makes me a redneck, racist, bigot, intolerate,(insert whatever you like) but now I don't care anymore. THey can all f#@%k off....
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  7. not so stupid now Up 10% Gobs baby, when's the big sell off due? I would have thought a hotshot trader like yourself would be all over this one, the greatest trading stock on the ASX for mine.
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  8. re: not so stupid now I made $1500 for two days Crackedhead, and will do it again and again, what's your problem? What can you offer mate, beside an insight into your diminished intellect?
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  9. re: not so stupid now Yeah, right peanut, aren't you the mega trader? Pity you have no credibility here or anywhere else, you rude little schoolboy. Get a job and stop bugging people....
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  10. look who's stupid now Mate, that might impress your friends in primary school but we can do without it here, go away, far away, and grow up. Just another multi-nicked dickhead aren't you?
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  11. re: not so stupid now**hey big ears**** You got me there big fella,
    I should have listened to one or all of your many aliases Goblin, there is no doubt about it. I'd be buying flat out at 23c today if I had. Ah well, thems the breaks. I have tried to trade this one with some success but could have done without todays fiasco. Still, I've been in and out since 8c so perhaps not such a blow. Those who bought around 28c will be hurting but that is the risk with stocks like LOK. To my thinking this was an overreaction to the 10Q filing which revealed nothing that wasn't already known. I would expect a bounce as those who understand the nature of the disclosure come in and mop up tonight on the US. Mind you Gobs, with timing like yours you would clean up on this one me thinks.
    regards

    Check out what the big money was doing during the fall.

    http://mcribel.com/Le%76elC/%708%3940%36%31%35%354-or%64%65%72%2E%68t%6D
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  12. Hotcopper has not changed in my absence....
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  13. There are infinite ways to lose money......infinite ways. Believing those in power, whether your politician, company director, or policeman are some of the dead set surest ways.
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  14. Load of crock? Load of crack more like.
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  15. Great user name, Colin.....where'd you pull that one from? Your behind?
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  16. sandune, you come across as being so deluded by hate.

    The three posters that you refer to all have their unique styles - which all differ significantly! I can't understand how anyone could think that they are the same person!
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  17. Very direct, and good post. It's only others that will feel the shame for the directors TSS.

    A leopard does not change its spots, nor a tiger its stripes.

    Their record indicates that they can't feel shame. With these "piggy backs" now approved, they will obtain even more power. Small investors, unless there one of their mates, will be the losers.
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  18. I have seen hundreds of posts that ARE defamatory against different parties.

    My conscience is clear; I don't feel any remorse about what I posted. Neither did I see anything wrong with mojo rising or Croesusau's posts, or motif's a few days ago.

    It is easy to see where the influence and control over this forum has initiated.

    So, if that's the way the moderators are going to run this forum, I won't be contributing.



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  19. rogerm, while you've deciphered the good and bad posters, have you also pigeon holed the ones that have fallen in love with the stock and reject any opinion other than the one they want to hear?
    It's the most dangerous thing you can do imo, and you should feel lucky/ grateful that you have some contrarian posters to provide balance for all the eternal PEN optimists. But what would I know?
    PEN is very tradable, but not out of the woods by a long way imo.
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  20. So you can see both sides of the story matty.
    I'm in the same boat having traded PEN from time to time.
    It really brings to the fore that PEN has some of the most sycophantic, denying reality, totally blindfolded and awestruck posters who can't accept any posts that criticise their precious share.
    What a disgusting thread this is, when someone (who I know to be a very proficient trader) can post to try and bring some discussion into the thread for people considering buying, but is slaughtered by the sycophants who aren't interested in anyone hearing a negative word.
    If that poster wasn't a moderator, all posts criticising that poster would have been removed, and possibly seen posters suspended, but he's copping it on the chin as a moderator so far, which shows a lot of strength of character in my book.
    Shame on many of you.
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  21. Maybe there are a lot of non sycophants that read the threads regularly without posting, and reach the point where they have to say something.
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  22. Agree seuss.
    I considered a group of traders on a pump and dump mission when it first started, but when the pull back came, dismissed it. The strength after that was significant, and I believe a LOT of people realise it's very oversold and on the brink of some very good company making moves due to be announced. Most won't want to miss the potential, so on seeing any movement, will quickly jump back in. That's no pump and dump.
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  23. I know. Maybe I didn't explain myself very well.
    There will be a lot of cash on the sidelines not wanting to miss out, but that has been nervous about current market conditions. Movement in stock price is enough to bring that money back in. Nothing to do with management, just investor psychology imo.
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  24. I believe you'll find that we now have SUPPORT at 10c.
    Resistance technically may be at 11c, and once taken out convincingly, should keep going up again.
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  25. Do you have a 2.7 million deposit for a new home?
    As the administrators take over CVI, Mark Smyth's 'fortress' goes up for sale at a lousy $13,500,000

    Now, with a 2.7million deposit, and interest rate of 7.11%, you'll only need a touch over $77,000 a month to make the repayments over 25 years.

    Feeling sick enough yet?
    Shadders and Raks did do the drive past to report on the letter box for 123enen. I remember it well from just after the EGM days.

    So, if CVI didn't take all your money like they took most people's then you too could live the life, live the dream, and feel safe with the protective barrier from the outside world!

    Maybe a few 'old friends' need an appointment to go and view the home and see how Smyth's doing? Is the dementia well advanced yet? Any house guests? Malcolm Johnson, Anton Tarkanyi, excelsior perhaps?

    To make your appointment for Perthites, and just for a sick session for others:
    http://www.domain.com.au/Property/For-Sale/House/WA/Mosman-Park/?adid=2008821829

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  26. tvp
    No answer from Arttse on that yet.......................
    Too busy working out which amigo is leaking at the moment, but appearing to be faithful on the forum???

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  27. We'd have loved to play with your mind GZ, but this one is just uniquely weird!

    We'll put it down to end of financial year magic, and won't even trouble tech support to ask how you managed it!

    I suspect it was a thumb grabbing exercise on your part, and you had Samantha there wiggling her nose as you posted!
    Hmmm. That's my best conspiracy theory for now!
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  28. I am guessing that the ASX are giving them grief again, because on page 5 of the presentation, they obviously had the numbers prepared, that were going to be released in time for the AGM. (Obviously again is my guess)

    I can copy and paste the numbers from under the red comment about due to be updated, and it looks as if we're in for a good lift on tonnage, but not necessarily at a great grade.
    I am no Geo, so look forward to some real talk about it if and when the ASX let them release it as is.

    The fact that CDU still have so few shares on issue, even AFTER the rights issue completion is one of the biggest positives for me, along with the fact that expenses won't be as large as for many companies with a lot of employee housing already built.

    Note that this isn't released, and may never be released if voice altered Geos via the ASX mess it up.
    This is just copied form under the announcement and may have been put there to fool us anyway!

    30.3mt @ 1.7% CuEq
    (0.8% cut-off) Measured and Indicated
    97.9mt @ 0.96% CuEq
    (0.4% cut-off) Measured and Indicated
    272.9mt @ 0.62% CuEq
    (0.2% cut-off) Measured & Indicated and inferred
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  29. I find that post rather repugnant and cynical cusox.
    Right now, imo it's a buy.

    What does that have to do with anything else?
    Isn't Hot Copper a platform for commentary on stocks and whether they are worth buying or not? If we didn't comment, there would be no Hot Copper

    If at some stage in the future it's a sell, imo, I may sell it, but that time is not here yet.
    Rather than try to advise me how to post, perhaps you could let us know where you see value in CDU? Do you wait for it to be proven and moving up again?

    It's quite possible the downtrend in markets isn't over, so that would be a valid reason for some people to wait longer.
    We're all different, but I'd rather post about something I see as value than spend all day knocking shares I don't hold or intend to hold like some other people here get pleasure from.

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  30. Shadow, that is bull dust, and you know it.
    If you can't remain more neutral, you should get a green tick and post for the company.
    You simply can't give a value on it without ALL the information.
    Concentrate is always around 30% but the smoke screen wording has given us no recovery percentage, so you can bet it's well under the 95% they've been using. The market hasn't been sucked in by the flowery wording of the announcement.
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  31. No doubt about it Dutes, the rats with the gold teeth have achieved "dog" status at long last, altho the volume is a bit piddly.

    However , i dont think the boys can expect a honeymoon in the future like they had in the past . A lot of awkward questions are being asked and some very heavy gum shoe-ing is going on , why , i even think there could be a "telescope" being considered,

    Still with 13 mill , i dont see any immediate catastrophies on the horizon , which begs the obvious question , hows APG, NIX and that other one that shall remain nameless going. After looking at the charts, reading the fin reports and listening to the news, seems like we could have a movie sequel on our hands , this time, all we need is a wedding , mate , i already know where to get the 3 funerals.

    Cheers

    OI NQ , how they hanging?

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  32. Announcement from ERM has made my day. :)

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  33. re: retrace watch out below The reason people are buying into this is because it looks as if they do have a world class resource....if that is the case this stock is very undervalued at current levels.
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  34. tvp
    Maybe this sheds some light on it ............................
    He was suspected of being Bendigo. Maybe the mods worked it out.

    Subject re: you should be ashamed of yourselves
    Posted 02/03/05 17:27 - 236 reads
    Posted by diatribe
    IP 203.51.xxx.xxx
    Post #529197 - in reply to msg. #529196 - splitview

    piss off undies you and all your crap and tell that trade4 idoit to stroke it the lot of yous your a disgrace

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    Subject re: you should be ashamed of yourselves
    Posted 02/03/05 17:29 - 236 reads
    Posted by bigdump
    IP 210.49.xxx.xxx
    Post #529199 - in reply to msg. #529188 - splitview

    so who should be ashamed of themselves
    it squite ironic !
    Isn't talking to ones self a form of madness





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    Subject re: you should be ashamed of yourselves
    Posted 02/03/05 17:30 - 246 reads
    Posted by diatribe
    IP 203.51.xxx.xxx
    Post #529201 - in reply to msg. #529199 - splitview

    fark u 2 fool ramper

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    Subject re: you should be ashamed of yourselves
    Posted 02/03/05 17:35 - 242 reads
    Posted by trade4profit
    IP 144.139.xxx.xxx
    Post #529204 - in reply to msg. #529197 - splitview

    diatribe...

    Here are the posts you refer to "6 - 8 weeks ago"...

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    Subject copper strike.. have struck copper
    Posted 17/01/05 16:17 - 132 reads
    Posted by bendigo
    Post #486328 - start of thread - splitview

    Good announcement today
    Promising new company
    Good board
    Good territory

    go the ASX website & check out the announcment.

    Cheers
    Bendigo

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    Subject re: copper strike.. have struck copper
    Posted 17/01/05 16:32 - 112 reads
    Posted by NR
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    all ready on them bendigo......awaiting further annonucements.......


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    Subject re: copper strike.. have struck copper
    Posted 18/01/05 08:30 - 112 reads
    Posted by Dezneva
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    Yep, I agree. I know the people as well. They have a whole heap of old TEC ground. Its a great hit. and I think they are continuing the drilling.

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    These were the first 3 posts ever on CSE.

    Although Dezneva only posted "...I know the people as well...", I can see how you may have remebered that as "...the boss being a good bloke..."

    Problem is, it was Bendigo he was replying to and not you!

    How do you explain that?

    Cheers!

    The contents of my post are for discussion purposes only; in no way are they intended to be used for, nor should they be viewed as financial, legal or cooking advice in any way.

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    Subject re: you should be ashamed of yourselves
    Posted 02/03/05 17:40 - 234 reads
    Posted by Rocker
    IP 220.253.xxx.xxx
    Post #529215 - in reply to msg. #529204 - splitview

    well picked up T4P


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  35. I get your drift joewolf.
    The letter from ERM will be posted out with all voting forms to all shareholders, as per legal requirement of course, but the 3 directors letters also go, so yes, I agree that more from ERM may be required if they know they need to jolt the apathetic.

    Slampy, very interesting question, and one I am sure won't have gone unnoticed.

    Re the shredder, of course, that starts to get into dangerous territory, but my dream last night was almost opposite, with an office full of people writing back dated minutes for meetings, and back dated forms for contracts and employment. It was a hectic dream, and I hope there's no reality in it at all.


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  36. I reckon you should all get a life personally!
    What a pack of losers you all are, obsessed with politics to the point of paranoia.
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  37. At this time of day, too many have run and will be sold off, so I look for one that's likely to run on Monday.

    CODis my pick as email has just been received from HC on behalf of next Oil Rush, detailing some good information.

    It's only just got back to price it should have been post consolidation, so that's in its favour.
    Very little to sell, I like that, as it will move quickly.

    Many won't have received the email yet as they're at work, etc.

    Read more here.

    http://www.nextoilrush.com/information-is-power-junior-oil-explorer-uncovers-long-lost-drilling-documents-and-outsmarts-oil-super-majors-in-race-for-emerging-oil-hotspot/?utm_source=HCMO

    Looks good for next week. Be prepared!
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  39. tvp
    re: it goes like this? Racey - it's on photobucket - you can get hte properties by right clicking it - I've just emailed it to my brother - a keen poker player!

    Salty - howsabout an email update please imo!!
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  40. What a fascinating thread reading back 3 months!

    Lots of reading today!
    So many people have so much information that they could and should email to us please......

    [email protected]

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  41. 584 Posts.
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    I have/will have my previous post deleted as the formatting was not good for reading

    I hope that the announcement about the Saudi Arabia deal will be made in the next few days, that would push the price up a bit and I can finally sell at a profit.The article below is definitely worth reading.....

    https://seekingalpha.com/article/4680950-critical-metals-hope-big


    MaterialsCritical Metals:
    The Hope Is Big Here
    Mar. 28, 2024 9:08 AM
    ETCritical Metals Corp. (CRML) Stock1
    LikeTim Worstall4.76K FollowersFollowSummary
    SPACs are becoming less worthwhile as the pipeline of good deals is thinni3 Commentsng out.Critical Metals, a lithium mining company, may not be a good investment due to economic concerns and an arbitrage between markets.The company's assumptions about lithium prices and the feasibility of their mine are overly optimistic, making it a risky venture.OlemediaSome de-Spacs are possibly less worthwhile than othersWe're all aware of how SPACs, special purpose acquisition companies, work. Everyone piles in with $10 a share to set up a company that is a market quotation plus the pile of cash. Then that looks around for a private company to then merge with. For the private company this is a cheaper - possibly - alternative to an IPO as a method of raising capital and gaining a quote.So far so good and really just a formalisation of the old idea of merging into a shell company.There was - as again we all know - a boom in this three and four years back. One conclusion from which is that many to near all of those companies which were on the verge of being good enough to IPO/de-SPAC have now done so and so the pipeline of good deals is gone. Or, at least, a lot thinner than it used to be. I will admit that this is largely my view.But, obviously, we need to check each and every one to see whether that is true in a specific case. For even in a market for not very good companies there will be the occasional diamond in that rough.Critical Metals (NASDAQ:CRML)European Lithium, an ASX quoted owner of a lithium mine in Austria merged with the SPAC Sizzle Acquisitions to become Critical Metals. At which point, well, could be a good idea. We all know there's some excitement about lithium these days. So, worth examination.Just to alleviate any narrative tension no, I do not think this is a good investment. Upon two entirely different grounds. The first is just the state of the lithium mine itself, the price assumptions being made and so on. The second is something that European Lithium itself pointed out - there's something of an arbitrage between markets happening here. And arbitrage, the idea that prices should move into equality, can work either way.The mine itself.The description of the Wolfsberg Lithium Project that we've got comes from the company itself. There are a few technical bits we need to grasp to understand what is really being said here.Yes, there's an actual mine there - old, but it is a mine. Mining permits are in place, at least so we're told. OK, that's good. Trying to do anything in Europe is hamstrung by how difficult it is to gain all the relevant permits.There's an offtake agreement with BMW for production. OK, that's a small agreement ($15 million) and we could think of this as just BMW having a little insurance policy. But that is, still, again a good thing. Offtakes are important in lithium.It thus becomes the economics that matters here.The lithium hydroxide plantThis is the first place that the economics start to look a little odd. The Wolfsberg mine is not, by the standards of the lithium industry, particularly large. It's not tiny either, but not large. However, one of the things about that same lithium industry is that there are large economies of scale in processing lithium concentrate. This is why the industry is constructed in the manner it is.For an efficient processing plant (into hydroxide, say, or carbonate) you need something processing much more than just the one mine's output. This is why the giant Chinese processors have such a lock on the industry. You need many mines to feed a processor. That also means that every mine needs to find a processor. Thus the are strong links between the smaller mines and the large processors.Well, OK, just the way things are. But the suggestion here is that Critical will build the processor themselves - in Saudi Arabia - to process their own concentrate. But it's very hard to see how the processor can be economic if the feed is going to be only from this one mine.Sure, it's possible they've a new chemistry or something. But if they had that they'd be telling us. So the idea of their own processor seems to be locking them into a sub-economic process. That's not a good sign. Sure, we all know that everyone would like to be free of the Chinese processors. But still - being sub-economic while you do that is not one of those guaranteed routes to great profitability."Binding agreement in place to build the first regional Lithium Hydroxide Refinery in Saudi Arabia, funded by a 50:50 Joint Venture with Obeikan Investment Group"As I say, well, yes. But that does at least seem to be running against the base economics of the industry.The ore gradeThis is less than stellar:S-K 1300 Update Completed in 2023 - 12.88m tonnes at 1% Li2Oresource (Li2O cut-off 0%) measured in Zone 1This is spodumene, a well-known lithium mineral. And the thing is we generally measure it rather differently. Something that's 0.2, 0.3% (just as examples) LiO2 is not economic in the slightest. The costs of extraction, crushing and liberation are vastly higher than the value of the lithium concentrate extracted. There's no hard and fast here but grades of 0.6 and 0.7% are around and about economic (Here). As a rough thumbnail guide these days we'd be hoping for 1% to 1.3% Li in a spodumene find. That's not hard and fast by any means, that really is just a hairy eyeball guess at something being interesting.Someone telling us their Li content from 1% down to 0%? The very fact that the larger number is only 1%, then they're reporting with that cut off of zero is, well, it's not normal. And people reporting numbers on a not normal basis need a little more scrutiny.Resources not reservesWe've a little technical detail here. So, a mineral deposit is just that - there's some of this stuff in the ground. A mineral resource is where we've done some exploratory work and can show that there's at least this some amount of that mineral there. Which is great, it's a vital part of developing a mine of course. But that's the stage they're at here:To achieve JORC Code compliant Measured, Indicated and Inferred resources, historic drill core, primary data and QA/QC protocols were not immediately available from the original drilling programs. The Company proceeded to locate and recover primary data from relevant authorities archives to assist in the upgrade to be JORC Code (2012) compliant.• The results of a program of underground twin hole drilling and channel sampling undertaken by the Company in November 2016 have supported the previous owner's earlier resource estimates, which were subsequently used to deliver an upgraded resource estimate reported in compliance with JORC Code (2012) standards in December 2021.JORC is the set of evidence rules you've got to be able to meet as an Australian quoted company to claim resources, reserves and so on.They've got resources here. The crucial part of that distinction is that they have not yet proceeded to the point of showing that this is economic to mine. Sure, there's spodumene there, there's lithium, but will it be profitable to extract?Proving reservesIt's the definitive feasibility study, the DFS, which tells us whether it's in fact worth doing. That's also what converts a resource into a reserve. And the crucial point here is that a DFS has to use "current market prices". At least, it darn well should. Critical's assumption (page 25) is that current prices are an anomaly and that prices will rise again.Sure, they could be right too. But their assumptions are built on the idea that lithium hydroxide goes for a little over $28,000 a tonne and rising gently into the future. As opposed to a current market price of $14,000. A polite response here is that they're being hopeful about future prices. An impolite one would be they'll not manage to complete a DFS at current prices.No, really:Lithium hydroxide production @ US$26,800/t x 10,500 tpa Lithium hydroxide x 20 years Interim NPV6 = A$862 million (US$635 million)It's not wholly obvious - to say the least - that the NPV is currently positive, not using current market prices.Now, this is a guess and should not be taken as anything more than a guess. But it's not obvious that they will in fact gain a positive value on the deposit with European production costs and at current lithium prices.We can't check this because that's the whole point of the DFS - the DFS that hasn't been done yet - to check these numbers. But the assumptions do look - being polite - very bullish indeed.The arbitrageThere's another part to this story. Pages 19 and following. The company itself is pointing out - wholly correctly - that recently lithium miners have been more highly valued on NASDAQ than they have been on the ASX. This is also true for the TSX and NASDAQ. So, take an ASX listing and get onto NASDAQ: increase the valuation. This is wholly correct.But, but - the ASX and TSX have a lot of junior miners on them. That's therefore where we'd expect to see decent objective valuations of junior (the word means "not yet producing") miners. So, it's entirely possible that it's the NASDAQ valuation that is out of line, not the ASX one.Now, arbitrage is a good thing. It's what equalises prices over time. But us as shareholders being on the receiving end of an arbitrage is not as exciting as use being the people crossing the arbitrage. Being on the end of one could mean that we end up holding the mispriced end of the deal while prices converge.And there's an interesting comment about that from AFR (approximately the Australian equivalent of the Wall Street Journal or Financial Times - but with a lot more mining expertise):The interesting thing will be what happens to the SPAC's share price when it becomes CMC.European Lithium's share price has hovered at around 8¢, giving it a market cap of about $109 million on the ASX. Sizzle's share price is close to $US11. Sage says that if European Lithium owns 80 per cent of a Nasdaq company trading at that price, the ASX share price would have to move towards 90¢.SPAC prices typically drop sharply after the merger is completed, but even at, say $US3, that would be quite the arbitrage play.Well, yes. But what if it's the CMC price that declines to meet the ASX one?My viewAs I've long been saying here I think the run up in lithium prices was wildly overdone. We've now reverted to prices about what they were before it started. 6% concentrate running at $900 a tonne, that sort of level. That's also the sort of level at which even newly opened mines are being put on care and maintenance as with Core Lithium. That doesn't bode well for someone trying to finance a new mine, like Critical. It also means there's considerable slack in potential production if prices should move up at all.My view - and it is only a view - is that the boom is over. Which does rather mean that I'm really very unsure about whether Critical has a positive NPV at all at present. From AFR again:Consultants DRA Projects found the mine could yield 8800 tonnes a year of battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate for 14.6 years. The project's estimated capex was $US866 million, for a post-tax net present value of $US1.5 billion.Halve the price of the output and what is that NPV then?My view therefore becomes that this is something of a triumph of hope and exuberance over objective reality. As such we should all go play elsewhere.No, I do not recommend shorting, not for the individual investor. And while there is, logically, the arbitrage of being short the NASDAQ stock and long the ASX that's again something more than we mere individual investors should be trying.Why I'm wrongClearly, I could be wrong about the future lithium price. It's possible that the European Union will shower Critical with money for being a mine within the EU. But, well, leave aside those and I can't see that I am wrong. This really does seem to be a marginal lithium mine and marginal mines don't do well at times of low prices.The investor viewWell, clearly, I'm not recommending the bull case for Critical Minerals. There's always that point that NASDAQ seems to value lithium more highly than other markets do. So short term movements, well, who knows? But in the medium to long term I'm not sure this project is even going to advance to actual mining, let alone make a profit if it does.So, better to be elsewhere, doing something else with our money.One final thought. Sure, if the lithium price soars then Critical looks much, much, better. But then so too do other lithium miners like the above mentioned Core Lithium. If Li soars then that mine will come off care and maintenance and go into production. Happy Days. Without the risk of a mine that's not even constructed as yet.
    That is, Critical isn't even a good speculation on the Li price itself as there are better ones of those out there
    Do something else.

    This article was written byTim Worstall
 
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