Green Shift Commodities To Acquire District Scale Lithium Land Package In Argentina
Green Shift Commodities Ltd. (TSXV: GCOM), (“Green Shift” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive purchase agreement (the “Agreement”) dated November 30, 2022, with LFP Resources (“LFP”) and the shareholders of LFP pursuant to which GCOM has agreed to acquire (the “LFP Acquisition”) all of the outstanding shares of LFP. LFP is a privately owned Canadian exploration company which has existing rights to acquire (the “Property Acquisitions”) an aggregate of approximately 485,000 hectares of prospective lithium ground in Rio Negro, Chubut, and Neuquén Provinces in Argentina (the “Property”). Completion of the LFP Acquisition is conditional upon, among other things, completion of one of the Property Acquisitions.
Highlights:
Entry into the lithium sector is a natural extension to the Company’s existing exposure to clean energy and battery commodities which already includes uranium, phosphate, nickel, and vanadium at its Berlin project in Colombia.
Argentina is one of the top lithium producing countries in the world and is geologically highly prospective; the GCOM team has deep experience operating exploration projects in the country.
The district-scale land package covers areas of known lithium pegmatite occurrences discovered and sampled in the 1960’s by the Argentinian government, plus an additional tens of kilometres of prospective strike containing areas with similar geological and geophysical signatures.
La Pintada and Manuel Choique granites (that extend over an area of 12 km x 7 km), which were the focus of the previous work, contain 19 known pegmatite dykes that returned lithium grades up to 4.76% Li2O1 in historic sampling. Recent mapping has identified dozens of additional potential untested pegmatite dykes and has identified the potential for disseminated lithium mineralization in granite in this area.
The Property is located in an area of good, all-season access and extensive infrastructure.
Permitting required for systematic exploration of the Property is underway. Planned exploration includes extensive sampling of outcropping pegmatite and geological mapping on closing of the LFP Acquisition.
Trumbull Fisher, CEO and Director of GCOM, commented, “We are very pleased to announce GCOM’s entry into the lithium sector where prices have increased dramatically recently due to rising demand for EV batteries. The district-scale land package we are acquiring offers the potential to explore known areas of lithium while, at the same time, secures an entire belt that has yet to be methodically explored. On a recent visit to the project area, I was very encouraged by the ease of access, the proximity to infrastructure and by the high-grade lithium exposed in the pegmatites exposed at surface. Additionally, through the acquisition, we will add a local technical team with tremendous experience exploring for lithium in Argentina. They are excited, as we are, to get work programs started immediately to test the potential of the incredibly large and prospective Property area. While the Berlin Project, with its uranium, phosphate, nickel, vanadium resources, continues to be of great importance to GCOM, this acquisition demonstrates our team’s plan to continue to expand further into the battery metals space.”
Terms of the LFP Acquisition
Pursuant to the Agreement, GCOM will acquire all of the outstanding shares of LFP for consideration comprised of an up-front payment of USD$75,000 and the issuance of 17,500,000 common shares of GCOM (“Common Shares”) on closing. The price per Common Share will be based on the closing price of the Common Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (the “TSXV”) on the day immediately prior to closing of the LFP Acquisition, currently anticipated to take place in January of 2023. The issuance of the Common Shares pursuant to the LFP Acquisition is subject to approval of the TSXV.
Completion of the LFP Acquisition is conditional upon, among other things, GCOM being satisfied, in its sole and absolute discretion, with the terms of the Property Acquisition and its due diligence with respect to the Property Acquisition and the Property, the completion of the Property Acquisition and the satisfaction of certain other closing conditions customary in transactions of this nature. There are no finders’ fees payable in connection with the LFP Acquisition and the sellers are arms-length parties with respect to the Company.
The Property
The Property consists of approximately 485,000 hectares of staked and granted claims stretching through the provinces of Chubut, Rio Negro and Neuquén (Figure 1). The Property covers a large portion of an intrusive belt known to host lithium mineralization. Historic work on granitic stocks in the Manuel Choique (“MC”) area by the Argentine State in the 1960’s identified 19 separate pegmatite bodies where assay results from 60 rock chip samples ranged from 0.6% Li2O to 4.1% Li2O, averaging 2.0% Li2O.
Over 800 structures (possible pegmatite bodies) have been mapped through satellite image interpretation in the MC pegmatite field. This work showed that the identified structures have a total strike length of over 100 km. A recent field visit confirmed the existence of many of the target structures identified on satellite imagery. Many of the trenches sampled by the State in the 1960’s are still open and accessible for resampling in the planned exploration program.
About Green Shift Commodities Ltd.
Green Shift Commodities Ltd. is focused on the exploration and development of commodities needed to help decarbonize and meet net-zero goals.
The Company is developing the Berlin Deposit in Colombia. Apart from uranium, for clean nuclear energy, the Berlin Deposit contains battery commodities including nickel, phosphate, and vanadium. Phosphate is a key component of lithium-ion ferro-phosphate (“LFP”) batteries that are being used by a growing list of electric vehicle manufacturers. Nickel is a component of various lithium-ion batteries, while vanadium is the element used in vanadium redox flow batteries. Neodymium, one of the rare earth elements contained within the Berlin Deposit, is a key component of powerful magnets that are used to increase the efficiency of electric motors and in generators in wind turbines.
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