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For_212 years_Chile has_been trying_to get_a Mining_Safety Agreement
signed... but finally under the brilliant direction of Mining Undersecretary Willy Kracht, Chile now today has a fully signed Mining Safety Agreement.
https://www.portalminero.com/wp/gobierno-y-principales-actores-de-la-mineria-firman-compromiso-nacional-por-la-seguridad/ (Willy is the tall bearded dork in the center of the picture)
Bravo Willy. This Mining Safety Agreement makes up for all the utter humiliation you have suffered over the last 16 months on creating a sound workable fair inclusive lithium mining plan for Chile which was the real goal for you specifically when Boric first appointed you to this position.
The Doctor
Marcela_Hernando (and_wisely) shut_out of_Boric's Euro_litio trip._However,
drooling used-car-salesman minister Nicolas Grau is still trying (now more desperately after Germany abandoned talks in Chile 2 months ago) to get his forked tongue further up the Germany's colonoscopy insertion/inspection canal with respect to the Gang-of-7 being "die Avantgarde" on lining up actual lithium purchases for Germany (eg VW, BMW) inside Chile. And as their "reward" I am guessing the Gang-of-7 might also be simultaneously last-ditch subconsciously pitching the idea to get a perpetual 2% or 3%-ish "we are grateful" commission for decades to come on whatever German lithium investors do buy new (including mining partnerships) in Chile before Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric gets booted out of government for good. https://www.latercera.com/pulso/noticia/ministro-grau-inicia-agenda-de-promocion-de-inversiones-en-alemania-y-destaca-interes-por-estrategia-nacional-del-litio/BD5Q3HWRJRAYNNB6ENVN7VS25I/ Google English translation below signature.
I am so grateful we don't have to listen to thatfocking leftist/ultra-commie moron windbag Marcela Hernando over in Germany on top of having to listen to constantly-verbal-ejaculating Nicolas Grau also. It is so nice having a vacation from her nonsense bullsheet as forced "filler" on the airwaves and on TV while Lame Duck Gabby Boric is out of the country.
The Doctor
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Minister Grau starts investment promotion agenda in Germany and highlights interest in the National Lithium Strategy (NLP)
by Catalina Marconi
The head of the Economy portfolio, Nicolás Grau, heads InvestChile's activities in the European country, which will have more than twelve activities with businessmen.
The Minister of Economy, Nicolás Grau, together with the director of InvestChile, Karla Flores, began an investment promotion tour in Germany on Monday in Berlin, with a meeting with representatives of the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Climate Protection, headed by the undersecretary of the portfolio, Franziska Brantner.
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The purpose of Minister Grau's visit is to promote the new opportunities offered by the country in sectors such as the lithium industry. The visit includes bilateral meetings, interviews with the media and visits to business complexes.
The Secretary of State pointed out that "on the one hand, we are going to strongly promote our National Lithium Strategy (NLP), which has aroused a lot of interest and enthusiasm in different investors, and we are also going to be supporting the role of the Ministry of Energy in promote the green hydrogen strategy. Both in Germany and in France we are going to have meetings mainly with investors; We are also going to go to factories to learn about their production and the new technologies that we want to promote in our country”.
Likewise, the director of InvestChile highlighted that the agency is working today supporting 21 projects by German companies, for a figure of more than US$640 million and in this context, "Chile can be a strategic partner for German companies, thanks to the opportunities that it offers in critical minerals and clean energy, which are key to decarbonization. We want European companies to play an important role in adding value and creating jobs in this industry."
Germany has an investment stock of US$ 1.02 billion (2021) in Chile, with participation in sectors such as medicines and drugs, mining, global services, construction, trade and industry. Similarly, InvestChile is currently supporting 21 projects by German companies, for a figure of more than US$640 million.
Activities in the country will continue on Tuesday with a business breakfast, co-organized with the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Over_10yrs ago_leftist Chile also_gave us_a guarantee_of non-discriminatory
access to raw materials from Chile, such as lithium, and to carry out environmental impact assessments of any raw material projects that may have repercussions on the environment. Well, here it is 2023 and we still haven't mined our first kilogram of lithium for sale in thisshithole Chile.
Fast forward to 2023 and Leftist Lame Duck Gabby Boric is making the same happy-face Chilean guarantee to gullible lithium investors from the EU for his July 17-18 CELAC meeting in Belgium
https://www-df-cl.translate.goog/economia-y-politica/gobierno/cumbre-celac-union-europea-las-claves-del-acuerdo-con-sello-verde-que?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp (see the last paragraph).
Dear Lithium EU Investors, yes leftist/commie Gabby Boric wants you to spend millions of your Euros on EXPLORATORY engineering studies, Chilean-based consultants/engineers/lawyers/bribes-to-congressional-members/bribes-to-ministers and your overhead in Chile... but you will never get a permit or a palatable deal to EXPLOIT lithium in Chile. We have been trying to mine lithium for 13 years in Chile and we still haven't pulled up the first kilogram of lithium from the ground for sale overseas and we have no idea when we will be able to mine lithium in this godforsakenshithole. If the right-wing political parties retake the presidency here in 2026 then we might have a chance to mine/sell some lithium in 2028 overseas but even that is a huge gamble. Don't let Boric blow smoke up your butts in Belgium this week... the guy is a slimy leftist/commie snake.
The Doctor
Approval_rating for_Boric's scandal-infected ministers_dropping fast
https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/cadem-fuerte-caida-en-aprobacion-de-ministros-jackson-avila-vallejo-montes-y-jara-vea-aqui-la-encuesta-completa/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Hip hip, hooray!
I hope anti-mining minister/plotter Marcela Hernando and her Top 5 lesbo/dyke lieutenants along with Minister Nicolas Grau are next to suffer a sharp loss of public confidence... and then Lame Duck Gabby Boric himself after that.
The Doctor
LPI_issues a_"please explain"_response to_ASX/etal. Trading_should start
back-up soon in time for the all-important North Americans and the opening bell who deserve top priority/consideration in this whole lithium miningclusterfocking mess in Chile. https://app.sharelinktechnologies.com/announcement/asx/c4ff99b64038f2898fb1b1aa128c5469;
The Doctor
A_"pause" in_trading LPI_shares Monday_July 17
https://app.sharelinktechnologies.com/announcement/asx/10872c66777f84b346e1300703236dcc
Scottdogg explains a trading pause for us non-Aussies (Dear Lord, thank you for making us non-Aussies from the bottom of our hearts)
https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/ann-pause-in-trading.7480834/page-11?get_post=true
If indeed this trading pause is a "please explain" from the ASX Exchange then it is possible the ASX wants LPI to formally "explain" its license in Chile as reported in the Financial Review July 16 https://www.afr.com/street-talk/plenty-of-questions-surround-lithium-power-s-chilean-licences-20230716-p5donf
If LPI goes into the "explaining mode" then I would like them to also explain:
1. Why we have the worst focking management team in all of the lithium mining companies I could list?
2. Why we have never hit one milestone on time in 7 years.
3. WTF is the real deal with Mitsui? Why put us shareholders through that ruse?
4. Why does management treat us shareholders like we are the enemy and never tells us anything of consequence or in a timely fashion?
5. In 6 years management has not talked to one lithium financial investor, not talked to one lithium take-off user (other then Fulin in 2017), not talked to even one battery-maker, not talked to one single EV automobile manufacturer... why is that?
6. What do we shareholders have to do to get all of the management team fired except for Martin Borda and Russel Barwick?
7. Where is the official construction start CPM or PERT schedule similar to the one solved up ourass in early 2017 which everyone then used for toilet paper?
The Doctor
Leftist_senators wantclocksocking_indians to_own a_part of_non-concessionalbe lithium
properties they do not hold title/deed on to the land. Leftist senators Pedro Araya, Francisco Huenchumilla, Raphael Prohens, Yasna Provost (note:TheGekko's favorite), and Esteban Velasquez have quietly under-the-radar introduced a bill in the Senate entitling focking moocher/looter/frivolous-lawsuit-extorting indians (as if indians aren't Chileans but rather a separate country unto themselves) to ownership in lithium-producing properties owned by private individuals (eg SIMCO, Simbalik, SQM, Lithium Chile Inc, LPI, Ponce Family, Errázuriz Groupo, Chilean Army, and Tianqi most likely, etc) https://www-camara-cl.translate.goog/legislacion/ProyectosDeLey/tramitacion.aspx?prmID=16598&prmBOLETIN=16053-07&_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US This is a modification of subparagraph 10 of number 24 in Article 19 of the Fundamental Charter in the current constitution as explained in more detail https://www-diarioconstitucional-cl.translate.goog/2023/07/16/proyecto-de-reforma-constitucional-busca-incorporar-un-grado-de-participacion-de-los-pueblos-indigenas-en-la-propiedad-o-administracion-de-los-yacimientos-que-contengan-sustancias-no-susceptibles-de-o/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US
Any "deep pockets" international-based rational Whitey/Chink/Gringo lithium investor with more than a half a brain on hearing this new "sneak attack" proposed legislation in this leftist/commie controlled Shile (Shile=Shithole+Chile) has got to be wrapping gray duct tape around his butthole, pulling the rest of his seed money out of Chilean banks now and heading for Argentina, Africa, Mongolia, Portugal, or wherever else lithium salars/mines until these thieving Chilean leftists/commies are voted out of office or another Coup takes place reinstalling a Right-wing pro-business government.
Every time we lithium miners turn around in Chile there is another phony-baloney group trying to set up a midnight scam/shakedown to screw us lithium miners who bought our properties on risk for top dollar decades ago from these same local indians (ie descendant Russian Inuits/Eskimos) who way back then happily sold their desolate bleak wasteland/junkyard/desert lands to us along with all future claims to the property and mineral rights... that is until these 5 scamming conniving thieving leftist/commie Senators (probably looking for future consulting contracts (ie kickbacks) from the eventual lithium-rich autonomous indian nation/country) decided to crap on and invalidate our deeds to this land we bought and held for decades with zero subsidies/tax-breaks/equity-investment or even one ounce of help from the government.
These 5 money-grubbing leftist Senators probably went to the recent 15th FastMarkets Lithium Battery Convention in Las Vegas Nevada just to hear Crystalballs give his standard 5-year old canned lecture and while they were there in Las Vegas saw how easy the indians control all the gambling in America now through leftist-enacted legislation and thought to themselves "hey, we can do the the same thing in Chile back home with our always drunk/high indians to control lithium through them".
The Doctor
Aclara_will submit_a completely_new EIA_on the_Penco project
https://dfmas-df-cl.translate.goog/df-mas/coffee-break/minera-aclara-no-apelara-a-resolucion-que-puso-fin-anticipado-a-proyecto?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Hopefully the deal-killing NIMBY anti-mining Biobío bureaucrats will have higher echelon state overseers watching over their shoulders this time who will make sure real civil/mining engineers are given the responsibility to technically review this new SEA permit as opposed to having typical incompetent beaner seafood fishery inspectors review (and auto-kill) Aclara's SEA application again.
The Doctor
Frosting_on the_cake, top_commie Daniel_Jadue being_charged w/bribery
https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/fiscalia-prepara-formalizacion-por-cohecho-contra-daniel-jadue-por-caso-relacionado-a-farmacias-populares/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
These Fidel Castro worshiping commies are all backstreet thugs... and the Palestinian ones are the most despicable.
The Doctor
Right_on cue, Boric_pisses on_Spaniard lithium_investors looking_to extract
lithium (for custom processing/refining back in Europe) from Chile without first converting it into a battery "value-added" components INSIDE Chile within new expensive factories built within Chile employing Lame Duck Gabby Boric's fellow backstabbing leftists/commies prone to labor strike at the first opportunity available. https://www-df-cl.translate.goog/economia-y-politica/gobierno/reforma-tributaria-proceso-constitucional-litio-e-hidrogeno-verde-las?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Some of the president's notable phrases were that, for example, in the lithium industry they (ie Spaniards) should not see Chile as "a place only to extract raw materials, but rather to generate value and productive chain."
Dear Michele's Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, you with your oversized mangled silver tongue are the most-capable stupido beaner for ruining even a perfectly enjoyable basic wet dream by throwing freezing cold ice water into a nocturnal bed. When you go onto to Belgium to look for more more European (ie Whitey) lithium investors do be sure to say the same thing to the Europeans in Belgium you stupido focking deal-killing idiot.
The Doctor
If_Chile isn't_shafting Tianqi_then I'm_a monkey's_uncle
https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/los-informes-de-tianqi-que-la-fne-desestimo-en-su-reclamo-para-alzar-restricciones-en-sqm-s3635062.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
Dear Tianqi, a person would have to blind, deaf & dumb to believe Chile isn't shoving the green weenie right up your wazoo. If I was you I would buy up all the lithium salars I could gobble up... and in 2026 make thesebastard Chileans crawl on their knees to get you to free them up for exploitation... that is after the temperature in Santiago hits 105 degrees F for a week straight and they figure out what fossil fuel burning pollution/smog "really" means for them personally.
The Doctor
Spain_showed interest_in Chile's_Lithium... yum yum si, lithium.
https://www-cnnchile-com.translate.goog/economia/van-klaveren-reunion-boric-espana-estrategia-nacional-litio_20230714/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear King Filipe VI, dig up Francisco Franco... dust him off and send him over to Chile to run things here. We're sure he would run things much better than Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric... and Spain will get plenty of lithium as a result. Everybody wins.
The Doctor
PS, and if the King won't buy into Chile's lithium then maybe some Spanish businessmen might... maybe... pulease pulease
https://tendenciashoy-cl.translate.goog/boric-ante-empresarios-espanoles-reivindica-los-30-anos-hemos-disminuido-la-pobreza-y-se-han-fortalecido-las-instituciones/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear_Codelco, fire_more men...and hire more_women to_replace the_men
https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/responsabilidad-social/2023/07/escuela-de-mujeres-lideres-codelco-acercamiento-mineria?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
That will indeed solve all your money/productivity problems.
Only_22 people_in 350-seat auditorium_listening to_Codelco BS
https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/07/codelco-produccion-litio-conservacion-salares?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
and half of them where reporters forced by the bosses to listen to this redundant NLP horsesheet. The other 11 people were indians licking their chops over their next frivolous BS lawsuit against lithium miners. Nobody in their right mind is going to interrupt their busy day to go listen to Máximo Pacheco blow two pounds of hot-air BS smoke up their butts for an hour... and without Máximo Pacheco "in the house" no one would have been there at all to listen to Crystalballs blow himself full of smoke. https://www-guiaminera-cl.translate.goog/proyecto-salar-blanco-iniciara-sus-obras-este-ano-en-el-salar-de-maricunga/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Yeah right, LPI is going to start construction in 2023... ha ha ha, that is hilarious. Is this the same "construction" that was supposed to start in 2018? 2019? 2020? 2021? And in 2022?
The Doctor
EU_wants to_trade eBuses_for Lithium... for the_10th time_or 11th_time if
I remember right over the past 7 years according to some new(er) anonymous unnamed ball-less source https://www.miningweekly.com/article/eu-working-on-e-bus-for-lithium-deal-with-latin-american-nations-2023-07-14
Note: this new(er) anonymous unnamed ball-less source is probably a "plant/shill" paid for by Lame Duck Gabby Boric who is passing through Spain now hiding out over in Europe from all the corruption/embezzlement scandals shaking his government currently here in Chile.
Dear EU, gofock yourself. When you limpdick pussies can finally put some cash up to buy or at least underwrite some lithium mines in part then you can talk about trading EU eBuses for lithium... until then we will stick with BYD eBuses from China which are already perfectly fine for us South Americans... plus BYD has already demonstrated they are willing to put their money where their mouth is, something none of your stingy penny-pitching tightass Europeans have done as yet.
The Doctor
Construction_will start_in 2018,_2019, 2020,_2021, 2022_and now_in 2023
according to Frank https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/general-lpi-discussion.7277047/page-107?post_id=68799549 ...or according to someone who told Frank... or according to that somebody who told someone who told Frank.
But don't hold your breath... remember you are dealing with nitwit beaners here in Chile and Crystalballs is the nitwittest of all the beaners we have to suffer after that chief nitwit Michele's Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric.
The Doctor
Seminar_on who_licks indianasses_more/better... Maximo_or Crystalballs?
https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/maximo-pacheco-en-seminario-en-atacama-la-produccion-del-litio-estara-condicionada-a-la-conservacion-de-los-salares-del-pais-s3622440.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
Crystalballs is pretty good at this lithium indianass-licking task... but I think latecomer Maximo gets his silver tongue up a lot higher than Crystalballs can possibly accomplish.
The Doctor
Codelco_gives Chile_US$1.54B. Codelco_doesn't give_US$673M CAPEX
to LPI but still wants 51% of any private lithium miner it tries to expropriate its lithium land/property/minerals from.
https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/maximo-pacheco-revelo-que-aporte-al-fisco-de-codelco-llegara-a-us-1-540-millones-en-2023/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Gang-of-7 member Codelco President Máximo Pacheco, had you simply taken US$673M out of that US$1.54B you just gave to finance Minister Mario Marcel & Michele's Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric (also in the Gang-of-7) then you could have easily bought your way into LPI if you had also lowered your controlling interest down to something reasonable/pragmatic less than 49%. André Sougarret probably well knew your stupido plan to take over lithium miners with no equity investment in them was going to be rightly perceived as government-sanctioned theft of private property and that might have been the main reason he quit Codelco and quit you disgusting slop-eating pig that you are.
We also note your contribution to the Chilean treasury of US$1.54B for 2023 is 63% lower than Codelco's contribution to the treasury in 2021... I am going to predict that your days at running Codelco are coming to an abrupt end within 6 months. I would start working on my golden parachute out of Codelco if I was you tubby.
The Doctor
Sorcia supposedly/magically/horseshittingly has_US$600M in_Maricunga?
https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/sorcia-minerals-avanza-negociacion-tecnica-con-codelco-en-maricunga-y-preven-visita-a-instalaciones-en-eeuu/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Redimin, please explain in more detail how and where Sorcia/IBAT has US$600,000,000 (aka "skin in the game") already invested in Maricunga which you appear to say/believe gives them some kind of leveraged grandfatherly license to operate here in our backyard. Are you saying they have spent this amount of money in Chile so far or are you saying they have some mysterious Sugar Daddy back in the USA who might potentially invest US$600M to get a Chilean DLE project off the ground? Because everybody and their mother (including LPI with Mitsui... spit spit) has some magical Sugar Daddy back home who might potentially invest US$600M in a Chilean lithium project to get it off the ground. These anonymous magical/mythical Sugar Daddies are a dime a dozen.
The Doctor
Dear_BYD, Boric_royally screwed_you on_your first_lithium tender._On the
next lithium mining tender, will you submit a bid to become a lithium miner in this godforsaken leftist/commieshithole Chile?
https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/el-gigante-chino-byd-y-su-interes-por-el-litio-en-chile-si-hay-llamados-a-licitacion-vamos-a-evaluar-nuestra-participacion-siempre-s3617326.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
It appears that BYD will yes indeed turn its cheek and bid once again on a lithium mining tender if a tender offering ever gets properly assembled for presentation to private lithium miners/investors.
The Doctor
Sorcia_wants to_do an_end-run around_us and_sock Codelco directly
in Maricunga https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/07/sorcia-minerals-negociacion-tecnica-codelco?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Sorcia (aka Ensorcia) Daniel Layton is the President of Ensorcia and as you all know they own mining concessions in Salar de Tara of Antofagasta and would like to exploit them using their DLE patents/machinery https://miningpress-com.translate.goog/nota/353268/quienes-estan-detras-del-litio-de-chile?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Sorcia's president for Latin America, Rodrigo Dupouy, has apparently been in tolick Marcela Hernando's butt on having the stipulation enacted into the NLC law that dictates all future lithium mining has to be DLE https://cooperativa-cl.translate.goog/noticias/economia/materias-primas/litio/esta-semana-en-el-congreso-se-discutira-una-futura-estrategia-para-el/2023-03-20/010936.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
and it might even be possible that Sorcia could join with Albemarle to make a bid on SQM's expiring Atacama lease for 2030 https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/se-abre-el-apetito-por-el-salar-de-atacama-albemarle-y-sorcia-minerals-interesadas-en-la-concesion-de-sqm/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
From an April 22 article in Ex-Ante https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/cual-es-la-tecnologia-de-extraccion-directa-de-litio-que-ofrece-sorcia-minerals-inversion-500-millones-de-dolares/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp we learned:
The company (Sorcia Minerals) is a subsidiary of the North American Ensorcia Metals Corporation. In turn, Ensorcia Metals is the majority shareholder of International Battery Metals (IBAT), whose direct lithium extraction technology is the one it offers to start operations in Chile, and if memory serves me right it is IBAT who wants to JV with our neighbor in Maricunga... SIMCO
Is Sorcia/IBAT planning to set up their DLE modular equipment on SIMCO property or on Codelco property? That is going to be a very important question to have answered.
And obviously we will need to watch this "development" as it unfolds.
The Doctor
I_move that_we start_digging lithium_up and_smuggling it_across the_border
into Argentina for processing by the Chinese Zijin Mining Group Co. https://www-emol-com.translate.goog/noticias/Economia/2023/07/11/1100652/carrera-litio-sudamerica-china-argentina.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The Doctor
Chamber_of Lithium_Mining calling_a spade_a spade saying_Codelco
and ENAMI are a bust for lithium mining. https://www-nuevamineria-com.translate.goog/revista/camara-chilena-de-mineria-del-litio-pide-liberar-explotacion-del-recurso/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US
or https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/camara-chilena-de-mineria-del-litio-pide-liberar-explotacion-y-alerta-que-actual-politica-es-expropiatoria/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
From the article:
Although they looked forward to the National Lithium Strategy (NLP) allowing them to exploit the compound, they declared themselves disappointed with this policy (NLP), since, in the opinion of the union's president, Luis Gallardo, "it is a covert expropriation" since it does not allow the exploitation of the mineral by private entrepreneurs. "Deep down there would be a covert expropriation criterion, because it says that in order to develop our projects we have to ally ourselves with Codelco and ENAMI," the leader said, adding that neither of the two companies has the financial backing to develop this mining. "We know perfectly well what is happening with Codelco: it has a multi-million-dollar drag debt" and "ENAMI is also in very disastrous economic conditions, because most of the plants are without maintenance and are half-producing."
Dear Crystalballs, please tell us LPI shareholders that LPI had the balls to join the Chamber of Lithium Mining and that we are are a full dues-paying card-carrying member of this organization along with Francisco Javier Errázuriz of SIMCO.
The Doctor
Bolivia_and Russia_contemplating more_contracts on_Lithium
https://miningpress-com.translate.goog/nota/356427/bolivia-y-rusia-haran-mas-acuerdos-por-el-litio?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
My bet is that Rosatom is going to give a contract to Wagner Group PMC to provide protection/security in Bolivia (especially along the Bolivian-Chile border where the Lithium Chile Inc project straddles both countries) for the Russian workers and eventually this vanguard force will lead the military action (circa 2H 2024) to retake the Red Corridor from Chile and return it to Bolivia who will then quickly build a seaport on the Pacific Ocean coast to begin sending lithium to Russia in 2025 now free from any Chilean tolls.
If Wagner can also takeover the SQM & Albemarle mines in Atacama during this reparations process then boo-hoo, boo-hoo for CORFO and all the corrupt politicians profiting from under-the-table payments & lopsided sweetheart deals on that whole incestuous stinking cash cow setup.
If the SQM & Albemarle mines are returned to their original owner Bolivia then the Maricunga Salar will become the number 1 lithium mine in Chile size-wise by default if Yevgeny Prigozhin spares us from the Red Corridor capture.
The Doctor
1st_dry run... Mining Royalty_will be_examined by_the Constitutional_Court
https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/07/royalty-minero-sera-examinado-tribunal-constitucional?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
This is an impressive move by the Constitutional Court to not waste any more time on this whole issue of unfair taxation without proper representation... I think you would have to admit that the Chilean Constitutional Court (TC) runs a pretty tight ship and the judges are definitely not your typical mañana mañana beaners always kicking the tin can down the road.
We applaud the Chilean Constitutional Court on initiating this vital work "early".
The Doctor
Eramet_in talks_with European_carmakers over_Argentina lithium_plan
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eramet-talks-with-european-carmakers-over-argentina-lithium-plan-ceo-2023-07-09/
...and it appears Eramet could be trying to do something in Chile also, but then again... they are all trying, aren't they?
The Doctor
Oh-oh, Boric is in_theshitnow. Chileans_want gov't_corruption punished
now and then permanently thereafter through the new constitution banning corrupt officials from ever holding office again (and that new law is 97% popular with Chileans in the latest UDD survey) https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/panel-ciudadano-udd-castigo-a-delitos-de-corrupcion-se-imponen-en-lo-que-los-chilenos-quieren-en-nueva-constitucion-vea-aqui-encuesta-completa/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, with you running (ie escaping) to Europe on July 12 to avoid this corruptionshitstorm crawling up your butt at home in Chile... well, things could be a whole lot different for you and your thieving scamming commie associates by the time you get back to Chile the week after. If I were you in Europa I would also investigate finding a nice affordable seaside villa (including some asylum) in Spain and prepare to forgettabout' Chile.... you're a lame duck for sure now plus you're toast for the next 2.5 years here in Chile after this latest corruption expose.
The Doctor
Young_Boric leftists...nothing but_a bunch_of thugs._The Fundaciones_case
https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/el-castillo-de-arena-por-kenneth-bunker/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Lame Duck Gabby Boric, you are getting lamer by the day.
The Doctor
Boric_fleeing scandal_of government_stealing Chile_blind and heading
instead to Europe July 12 to try and convince Europeans to invest in thisshithole Chile https://www-df-cl.translate.goog/economia-y-politica/gobierno/boric-confirma-gira-a-europa-con-una-agenda-marcada-por-la-busqueda-de?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
This tour to Europe is now needed because the Chile Day Tour 2023 to NYC & Toronto (by Mario Marcel) to bamboozle Whitey/Chinks/Gringos up north was a complete flop https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172283835 as evidenced on Mario's first day back in Chile from Toronto when some two-bit pissant petty bureaucrats shut down another Canadian miner over $2,400 in scraggly orange trees.
Dear Lame Duck Gabby Boric, when it comes to trying to get Europeans to invest in Chilean lithium be sure to point out to the Europeans that both Codelco & ENAMI has not even bothered once since your lithium-rah-rah April 20 speech to talk to us landowning lithium miners in Maricunga yet about developing the lithium here in Maricunga but yet thatasslicker Number 4 in your Gang-of-7 thieves Maximo Pacheco has plenty of time to travel all way out into the boondocks to help coordinate the next scam/frivolous-phony-lawsuit by the top 2 individual troublemakers/scammers against lithium miners https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/07/visita-al-salar-de-maricunga-codelco-comunidades-colla?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en in an outlier Colla Pai Ote group (of 60 members total) splintered off 125 miles from the main Colla nation (nearer the Maricunga gold mines) to sue lithium miners for supposedly kicking dust over onto their sacred sheep/llama/goat cemeteries 100 miles from the salar https://www-nuevamineria-com.translate.goog/revista/codelco-comprometio-fluidez-y-claridad-en-el-relacionamiento-con-comunidades-colla-en-visita-a-maricunga/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US
Dear Europeans, you are fools to listen to this Lame Duck Gabby Boric. This little two-faced weasel only wants your seed money in Chile and once you get semi-involved here he will unleash all his backstabbing conniving leftist/commie attack dogs on you including exploitation-permit-killing Anti-Mining Marcela Hernando and Maximo Pacheco who will have Russian-descendant litigious indians crawling up yourass looking to extort you for millions of dollars all the way back to Europe before you know what hit you. And if you do get established here by some stroke of luck while the leftist/commies are in power you will be paying kickbacks monthly until you are blue in the face. You're better off in Argentina if you need lithium quick.
The Doctor
A_tale of_6 niggling orange_trees that_could be_replaced for_US$400 each
https://miningpress-com.translate.goog/nota/356333/sea-anticipa-fin-de-evaluacion-del-proyecto-de-aclara-que-anuncia-nuevo-estudio?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Chile has enabled every greedy little conniving Tom, Dick & Harry & Julio with a grudge against miners or looking for a bribe to kill any SEA study with the click of their fingers. For Penco a couple of self-important puffed up political hacks at the Biobío Environmental Assessment Service have taken aim at this Penco project and blown 6 scraggly orange out of perspective anointing them as sacred creations when they could easily be replaced or relocated for $400 each. Chile under Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric and ultra-communist Anti-Mining Marcela Hernando have declared war on miners... especially Canadian gringo miners.
The Doctor
Another_US$400M pumped_into Argentina_to mine_lithium
https://www.portalminero.com/wp/argentina-avanza-en-litio-aprueban-permisos-de-preconstruccion-a-nuevo-yacimiento-en-el-norte-del-pais/
and https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/07/resurgimiento-mineria-argentina?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Dear Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, you better hope Chileans like eating lithium sandwiches because you're going to have mucho amounts of lithium to feed them at dinner time when Chile's foreign reserves hit close to zero and nobody in Chile has a job after you and your thieving leftist/commie cadre gutted the mining industry here.
The Doctor
Truck-makers agree_to 2036 zero-emission plan with_California
https://thehill.com/newsletters/energy-environment/4084493-truck-makers-agree-to-2036-zero-emission-plan-with-california/
This is huge for electric trucks powered by lithium batteries... major huge. California leads the way in America for cars & trucks legal standards.
The Doctor
Members_of the_Green Hydrogen_Strategic Committee_are announced
Hmmm, this is indeed an impressive commission of people/politicians/experts assembled in one place to produce the "high consensus" on the super-money-making development of hydrogen in Chile. And seeing the Finance Minister Mario Marcel taking time out of his busy schedule to quietly nonchalantly pose (behind Michele Bachelet and just to the left side of Juan Carlos Jobet) with this new coalition without a "distracting/scene-stealing" mention of his name in the story is quite telling/remarkable... this group clearly has a very high inaugural position from the git-go in the whole hydrogen business destined to make the "big time" in Chile. https://www-nuevamineria-com.translate.goog/revista/dan-a-conocer-integrantes-del-comite-estrategico-de-hidrogeno-verde/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US
and https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/07/miembros-del-comite-estrategico-para-plan-de-hidrogeno-verde?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Ya know, I would not be surprised to hear that Boric also gives this commission the responsibility to formulate a new more-inclusive "high consensus" on lithium if the NLC faces stiff congressional opposition this fall of 2023 or in fact gets voted down in Congress this November/December. This advisory commission could turn out to have some serious non-partisan muscle in policy formulation.
The Doctor
What_Mario Marcel_promised on Chile_Day in_NYC &_Toronto is_total BS
and here is a perfect example of why no Whitey/Chink/Gringo in his right mind will invest in thisshithole Chile while these backstabbing leftists/commies under Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric are still running this scamming political-extorting government. The Penco project under Aclara Resources (Canada) https://www.aclara-re.com/ is the epitome of the cleanest-possible critical rare earths mining project an intelligent country that lives off miners like Chile could ever want but yet while Mario Marcel is in Toronto specifically begging Canadian mining investors to come back to Chile... unbeknownst to Mario behind his back in Chile some two-bit slimy extorting Biobío bureaucratic hacks are killing the whole Alcara Penco SEA submission over a mind-boggling 6focking orange trees (citronella mucronata US $400 each at any nursery to replace/relocate) bordering some insignificant protected forest created for spite by NIMBY indians (ie until they get their payoffs to rescind their protest of course) who don't give twoshits about Chile's GNP or anyone else in the world who needs critical rare earths now that China is slamming the door shut on exporting rare earths starting with gallium & germanium
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/tech/china-export-controls-semiconductor-war-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html
Here is op-ed by Joaquin Lavin on how a few insignificant pissant bureaucrats at Biobío Environmental Assessment Service brought this whole Penco project to a screeching halt as a hard slap right in Finance Minister Mario Marcel's face immediately upon his return to Chile from NYC & Toronto where he was trying trying for a week to get Canadian investors to come back to Chile and invest in mining here https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/portazo-a-proyecto-de-tierras-raras-la-gran-distancia-entre-discurso-y-realidad-por-joaquin-lavin/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
This appalling story applies to rare earths today but it holds true for lithium and all of us lithium investors, it is two-bit amateur extortion as the rule here before altruistically everyone working in unison to expand Chile's GNP... these scamming leftists/commies in this Lame Duck Gabby Boric government are using the same overall modus operandi to squeeze the piss out all gringo miners and are pure evil poison to the last of them included the Gang-of-7 with Marcela right at the top.
The Doctor
Marcela_is so lost/incompetent that_she now_wants the_public to write_in
to her new website to tell her how to be a basic civil mining engineer and make logical/practical civil/mining engineering decisions
https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/07/ministerio-de-mineria-plataforma-de-participacion-ciudadana?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Dear Marcela, here is your first letter on how to be a better Minister of Mining. Move your ultra-communist deliberately roadblocking fatass over and let Dr Willy Kracht who has real engineering degrees run the Ministry of Mining. That would be a great start.
The Doctor
Takes_11yrs to_secure permits._The holdup_cause identified...it's Beaners
Yes, Beaners are found to be the number 1 problematic cause in the holdup in getting this simple task done which should have taken 12 months in Chile https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/07/tramitacion-de-permisos-para-invertir-supera-norma-legal?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Well thank goodness, now we finally know what the anal blockage on getting permits in Chile is.... too many thieving scamming bureaucratic lower/middle/upper/ministerial management beaners in the way too long redundant pipeline all looking to get their bribe/cut or at least another extra mañana mañana siesta in before doing the job they are being paid to do first.
Well I am glad this previously complete mystery in Chile is now solved.
The Doctor
Blah_blah shovel_ready blah_blah we_have no_plan for_next 3_years
blah blah we're sustainable... WTF that means blah blah I'm the executive director but I don't doshit blah blah no financing in place blah blah no basic simple off-take agreements in place blah blah we have no record of ever talking to any investors blah blah we managed not to catch the clap or syphilis in the last FastMarkets convention in Las Vegas blah blah we're focking ozzies blah blah we're pretend miners... come pretend with us.
https://edition.pagesuite.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=537b809f-455f-4251-8747-ddfc512106bb
In_Chile LG_Energy Solution_signs long-term lithium agreement_with
SQM.... ha ha ha... did you again think I was going to say LG signed with LPI?
Ha, that's never going to happen with that useless parasite beaner Crystalballs running things into the crapper. Nobody in their right mind would sign with us when we can't even select competent (or breathing/alive) management to run our own company.
Read and weep you stupidos who still think Crystalballs will save us or even halfway help us someday
https://www-df-cl.translate.goog/empresas/mineria/sqm-anuncia-nuevo-contrato-de-litio-de-largo-plazo-con-lg-energy-solution?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Clearly nobody from LPI even bothered to talk to LG who obviously was hot to trot in Chile.
WTF does our management do all day?
The Doctor
Senate_is not_in favor_of Codelco/ENAMI in_NLP mucking everything_up
and also wants NLC legislation expedited to completion way way before end of this year contrary to the Gang-of-7's agenda (esp Hernando & Grau's direct agenda) who secretly want to drag this whole lithium exploitation/NLC process out much longer until Marcela Hernando can run for president in 2026 and suck up all the glory/gravy (wink wink) for herself and her thieving/scamming ultra-communist buddies/lesbians/dykes cohorts after she is elected president https://www-df-cl.translate.goog/empresas/mineria/senadores-critican-rol-de-codelco-y-enami-en-estrategia-nacional-del?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The Doctor
Ignore_the fact_we're lazy_beaner grifters...blame the_Frontal System
says Maximo for Codelco's upcoming superfockup and impending catastrophic profit drop. https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/codelco-proyecta-caida-de-produccion-en-el-teniente-y-andina-por-impacto-del-sistema-frontal-s3469398.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
Dear Maximo, what is or who is this devilish/gremlin "Frontal System" of which you speak today?
The Doctor
PS, Dear Maximo, prepare 2 envelopes with letters inside for your successor at Codelco.
In the first envelope write a personal letter to your successor saying that you take full responsibility for everything that got focked up during your successor's first year or two years in office and then verbally explain to your successor he can open and use your first letter to show to the next president of Chile whenever the next fockup happens at Codelco thereby buying him (ie your successor) a free get-out-of-jail "reprieve" at your expense.
In the second envelope addressed to your successor simply write on the letter inside "make two envelopes and type two letters as follows......."