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Tianqi_admits in_print they_have been_kissing LPI
https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/04/tianqi-lithium-presenta-recurso-reposicion-ante-fiscalia-nacional-economica?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en see paragraph 3 in article titled Tianqi Lithium filed an appeal for reversal with the FNE
Tianqi vehemently wants the National Economic Prosecutor's Office (FNE) to give them independent autonomy inside Chile (plus 300 long-term unrestricted work visas I would bet) especially with respect to countering/meeting/aligning/out-maneuvering/bedding-down BYD, Tesla, Tsingshan, CATL, Ganfeng Lithium, and Lithium Power International.
I will bet all 5 of my homes/condos (including the ones in Monaco and Moscow) Tianqi wants to buy us.
I can feel it in my bones now.
Dear Tianqi, we want to French kiss you.
You Chinese do know how to French kiss... don't you?
The Doctor
LPI-Hotcopperites' dilemma_12PM_Friday AUS._Do they whoop&holler_over
Codelco's humiliating Supreme Court defeat for control over all of Maricunga today thereby pre-alerting all the day-traders and "undeserving fresh" newbies to a possible 25%-30% jump in the LPI share price on Monday? Or, do they stifle their celebrations today Friday, Saturday, Sunday and quietly try to buy more LPI shares on the cheap at opening bell Monday morning after the holiday?
Oooooo, this is a real 3-day conundrum of conscience for them.
The Doctor
¡Long_Live Libertad_y Democracia_Grupo! Welcome Presidente Pastrana
from Colombia on April 3, 2023. We are growing.
https://www.msn.com/es-co/noticias/other/iv%C3%A1n-duque-y-andr%C3%A9s-pastrana-integran-libertad-y-democracia-el-grupo-que-naci%C3%B3-para-hacerle-contrapeso-al-foro-de-s%C3%A3o-paulo/ar-AA19q94o
English version follows:
Former President Andrés Pastrana, one of the Colombian leaders most contradictory to the government of President Gustavo Petro and to the Latin American left, welcomed Libertad y Democracia, a group made up of various world leaders who came together to counterbalance the Forum of São Paulo, which defends progressive and left-wing ideas.
According to the organization's official website, this group is made up of heads and former heads of state and Ibero-American governments, political leaders, citizen, academic and social leaders. "The objective of this group is to analyze, dialogue, coordinate and act to strengthen freedom and democracy in Ibero-American countries," he reads.
Among the founding members are the former presidents of Colombia Iván Duque and Andrés Pastrana. Likewise, Mario Benítez, President of Paraguay; Felipe Calderón, former president of Mexico; Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico; Guillermo Laso, President of Ecuador; Mariano Rajoy, former president of Spain; Mauricio Macri, former president of Argentina, and Sebastián Piñera, former president of Chile.
We oppose all the radical leftists and communists in Chile.
¡Viva_el Libertad_y Democracia_Grupo!
The Doctor
FrankRockefield_properly uses_ChatGPT4 to_analyze Supreme_Court ruling
to produce concise accurate summary-size interpretation https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/the-ministry-of-mining-accepted-application-from-codelco-to-extend-ceol.7045502/page-211?get_post=true
Very impressive, very impressive. Bravo.
The Doctor
PS, also see https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171635214 if you want to see our long winded old-fashion "read & interpret" longhand version which took me 8 hours to slog through.
For_cripes sake,_WTF isthefocking_NLP? Asks_Codelco CEO_again
https://www-latercera-com.translate.goog/pulso/noticia/maximo-pacheco-queremos-la-politica-nacional-del-litio-y-queremos-contribuir-como-empresa-a-que-sea-un-exito/HZNKGHG3AJEGTB75P6CTDLGA2I/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear Máximo Pacheco, first you have to fire more able-bodied male engineers from Codelco and replace them with Anti-Mining Marcela Hernando's lesbian/dyke labor pool of 90-day wonder female engineering graduates whose leftist/commie dads are beating on Marcela to install these lezzies in make-work easy-peasy high-paying jobs in captive miners' air-conditioned lunch-catered offices that she is squeezing their miner-nuts to death.
The Doctor
Codelco_gets its_teeth knocked_down its_throat by_Simbalik
ergo Anti-mining Minister Marcela Hernando who supported Codelco's frivolous lawsuit appeal against Simbalik Group gets herfocking teeth knocked down her throat also.
Click here within 10 minutes of this post for self-disappearing verdict from the electron-stingy Chilean beaners running the court records office... otherwise see below for rough English translation.
The Supreme Court (Environmental section of the TC) has issued their final ruling April 5, 2023 on the appeal by Codelco to nullify the previously-awarded lithium rights on Simbalik's (ie licensee's) property which amount to 24,300 metric tonnes or of equivalent metallic lithium (ie 1,620mtpa LCE over 15 years) plus whatever more tonnages Codelco could steal by shallow "angular" drilling underground from Simbalik's advantageously-located property to swipe our lithium brine from the "mother lode" in Maricunga that "sits" under LPI.
1. Codelco does not have the lithium exploitation rights under the March 9, 2018 CEOL contrivance over any property approved by CChEN for lithium mining prior Decree Law No. 2886 of November 14, 1979 and the Executive order by Pinochet declaring lithium a Strategic Mineral.
2. Codelco may not intrude on adjacent properties to mine the minerals on their Sociedad Salar de Maricunga SpA property without the expressed written permission of the adjacent Maricunga landowner... in this case specifically, Simbalik.... and eventually now by good luck, LPI plus SQM and SIMCO and maybe Tianqi if they do indeed JV with us or buy us out after this good news.
3. Neighbors to Codelco who are themselves mining lithium may deny easement rights to Codelco to haul lithium over their property, however such neighbors will be obligated by the State's CEOL to allow Codelco to haul sodium chloride over the neighbor's property through a well-defined easement.
4. The Supreme Court was not fooled in the least by Codelco & the government... they saw right through all the bullsheet and absolutely realized "it is deduced that the The exploitation of lithium by private parties is the real controversy in this case" See Article 10 item 1 paragraph 3. This important "precedent" will now haunt the Boric government on all future legal case rulings.
We're back in the driver's seat on Lithium Mining in Maricunga thanks to Simbalik and SIMCO.
Yesfock Anti-Mining Minister Marcela Hernando and her RP political party. Codelco never fully had their heart in this desperate "long-shot" lawsuit and was doing it only to appease this nasty vindictive wicked witch of the west Marcela Hernando who is clearly dedicated to stopping all additional lithium mining in Chile until she can take over as president in 2026 and properly shaft all the junior lithium miners lesbian/dyke style.
The Doctor
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Santiago, April fifth, two thousand and twenty-three. April 5, 2023
Viewed:
In Case No. C-2617-2018, of the First Court of Appeals of Copiapó, in the case of "Simbalik Group Inversiones Limitada con Fisco", in summary proceeding governed by Articles 234 and following of the Mining Code, or judgment of October 7, 2021, or as
the claim was accepted and the constitution of mining easements was declared in favor of their belongings over a part of the property of the defendant (Codelco) in the terms that are indicated, fixing the amount of the indemnity and its duration.
The defendant (Codelco) appeared in chamber to the Court of Appeal of Copiapó, and by decision on April 12, 2022 confirmed it.
Against this the same party has deduced the following appeal on the merits, requesting the invalidation of the judgment and the consequent issuance of a replacement judgment that it herein describes.
It was ordered to bring the case files in this relation.
Whereas:
First: That the appellant alleges the infringement of Articles 8 of the Organic Constitutional Law on Mining Concessions, sections 120 and 124 of the Mining Code.
It explains that the infringements occur because the mining easements have been constituted without the need or utility that justifies them, since they were requested for the purpose of exploring and exploiting lithium, in circumstances where the concessions of the plaintiff only allow exploring and exploiting sodium chloride, a fact that is not disputed and corroborated by the certificate of ownership in force accompanied by the plaintiff.
In this way, he adds, the court overlooked a legal precedent, that is, that the plaintiff cannot explore or exploit the lithium that exists in the bowels of its mining concessions, which means that the requirement of necessity or utility that justifies the constitution of the mining easement is not met.
It points out that although the claim was based on the fact that the concessions are and were established under the Mining Code of 1932 and prior to the reform introduced by Decree Law No. 2886 of November 14, 1979, which reserved lithium in favor of the State of Chile, making it a non-reportable and non-concessionable metal, not all properties established prior to that date are exempt from this reservation as claimed.
Article 5 of the Decree-Law establishes the exceptions to this reserve, by virtue of which it is concluded that only those individuals may exploit lithium whose holdings meet one of the following two copulative requirements: #1. before Decree Law No. 2886; #2. The Company's main activity was lithium or any of the substances listed in paragraph 1 of article 3 of the Mining Code of 1932.
In the case of the plaintiff, he adds, without prejudice to the fact that its ownership was constituted prior to the enactment of the aforementioned legal body, according to what is stated in the certificates of ownership in force, it was only on sodium chloride, a substance which is certainly not lithium or any of those contemplated in subsection 1 of the Mining Law of 1932. of Article 3 of the Code specifies that article 1, paragraph 5, of the transitional provisions of the current Mining Code states that "if there is only one property or administrative concession of exploitation, it will incorporate to its object all substances that were not granted and those that, by virtue of Law No. 18.097, become concessionable". According to a first reading, it could be argued that the plaintiff's concessions incorporated lithium to their object, however, such conclusion is wrong, since such substance is exclusively reserved to the State of Chile.
It affirms that nothing of what has been concluded changes with the argument of the plaintiff in the sense of having the authorization of the Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission (CChEN), since it only allows the commercialization of lithium, but not its extraction or exploitation.
It argues that the contested judgment ruled that without taking over the fiscal allegation on the lack of necessity or justification of the requested lien, without making any allusion to the substance on which the belongings are based and avoiding the issue of the non-deniability of the lithium.
In this way, he specifies, Articles 8 of the Organic Constitutional Law on Mining Concessions and 120 of the Mining Code have been violated, since, according to the reasoning of the court, in order to accede to the claim, it is sufficient to prove ownership of a mining property and the ownership of the surface property on which the lien is requested, without considering that the use is in accordance with the
respective concession.
In this way, he explains, the constitution of the required lien, contrary to the court's decision, recognizes as a limitation that provided for in Article 124 of the Mining Code, which states that easements may not be used for purposes other than those proper to the respective concession or establishment and for which they were built, and shall cease when such use is terminated.
It also adds that according to the iura novit curia principle (definition: Iura novit curia is a Latin legal maxim expressing the principle that "the court knows the law", ie, that the parties to a legal dispute do not need to plead or prove the law that applies to their case. ), ergo the court must apply the law specified by the substantive rule, whether been expressly invoked or not by the parties, having the duty to examine the legal presuppositions of the action to determine if it is lass or claims can be accepted, since nothing prevents him from discovering for himself legal norms and principles that determine the dismissal of the action boarded up It ends by exposing the way in which the infringements reported have substantially influenced the device of the sentence and ends requesting the invalidation of the appealed decision, and the decision must be issued replacement that corresponds by law, fully revoking the decision first instance and, ultimately, declaring that there is no room for the requested mining easement, with costs.
Second: That, the sentence established as facts of the case, enacted what interests the resource, the following:
a). - The plaintiff owns the Kitchen (Cocina) 1 to 9 mining concession, or Sodium Chloride producer, located in Hoyada de Maricunga, Municipality and Province of Copiapo, whose survey and self-approval certificate They are registered on page 167, turn N 57, in the respective Registry. of the Conservative of Mines of that city, corresponding to the year 1936.
b). - Through Exempt Resolution No. 092/2013, of October 16, 2013, issued by the Executive Director of the Chilean Commission of Nuclear Energy (CChEN), under the provisions of article 8 of Law No. 16.319, the plaintiff (Simbalik) was authorized to produce and sell salts raw or Extra (refined) lithium from the holdings Kitchen (Cocina) 1 to 9 of Salar de Maricunga, for a period of 15 years, counting from the first sale commercially, whose production and sale may not exceed 24,300 tons or of equivalent metallic lithium (ie 1,620mtpa LCE) during the period of validity of the authorization, or under the other conditions that are established in the same resolution.
c). - Between the State of Chile and Sociedad Salar de Maricunga SpA (See Codelco), by means of a public deed of March 9, 2018, a Contract was executed or Special Operation of Lithium Deposits (ref CEOL) in the Salar de Maricunga and its surroundings, which according to its second stipulation, called "Subject Matter of the Contract", it was stated that: "By this Contract the State of Chile expressly authorizes the contractor (Codelco) to perform, carry out and develop, on an exclusive basis, all types of activities and work exploration activities on the lithium substances located in the CEOL Area, as exploitation and profit operations on lithium substances located in the CEOL Area, in exchange for a fee and subject to a specific payment, with the exception of those areas covered by mining concessions constituted in accordance with the Mining Code of nineteen hundred and thirty-two (1932)".
d). - The Chilean Treasury is the owner of the property on which the claim is made and easement that is demanded
Third: That, on the basis of these facts, the magistrate accepted the demand having in considering that "having had by AND in Basis 7, that the plaintiff (Simbalik) is the owner of the mining properties granted under the Mining Code of 1932 called Kitchen (Cocina) 1 to 9, and that the Chilean Treasury is the owner of the property on which the service being demanded is sought, it follows as a necessary consequence that one of the basic assumptions of the granting of a mining easement has been verified, which is that the plaintiff (Simbalik) is the owner of the mining properties that will be constituted in the dominant property, and that the defendant (Codelco) is the owner of the property that is to be served, that is, the servient estate (for definition see https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/servient_estate ), and, naturally, that both properties are of different ownership". With respect to the necessity of the easement requested, the court noted that on the basis of the documents indicated in the Study of Environmental Impact Maricunga's Salts Production and Resolution Exenta No. 092/2013 of the Executive Directorate of the Chilean Commission of Nuclear Energy (CChEN) - "allow a well-founded presumption that for the work of the The mining activity that the plaintiff (Simbalik) is seeking is necessary to constitute the easements described in its libel case, since without them it is not feasible to develop the extractive activity that constitutes the core of the project and that justifies the existence of the concession", adding that "if one takes into account the nature of the mining operations, and the use given to the land on which the easement is requested, it is obvious that it is useful for the most convenient and comfortable exploration, exploitation and benefit of the minerals, so that the requirement has been fully satisfied". Regarding the circumstance that the State of Chile has entered into an agreement with Sociedad Salar de Maricunga SA (a subsidiary of Codelco) a special contract (CEOL) for the operation of lithium deposits, the tribunal stated that "such an agreement of wills is unopposable to him, since it is an instrument that creates rights and obligations between the State of Chile and the beneficiary company, but this in no way prevents the holders of the concessions established under the Mining Code of 1932, may exercise the prerogatives that their right of dominion over such grants gives them".
By Finally, in relation to the allegation of the non-reportability of the Chilean Treasury, in its appeal, has raised the issue of the court held that the mining properties of the plaintiff (Simbalik) were constituted on sodium chloride under the Mining Code of 1932, and that therefore it would lack the title to explore and exploit the lithium, the magistrate held that "it lacks support and opportunity since it was not part of the answer to the lawsuit".
Fourth: That, the imperative that limits the pronouncement of the court may not disregard the relevant writings of the process, that is, in the case of the plaintiff (Simbalik), the libel of his claim and in the case of the defendant (Codelco), his answer to the same, as can be deduced from the provisions of the numerals 4 of article 254 and 3° of article 309, both of the Code of Civil Procedure, which constitutes a postulate to which both the court and the parties must adhere at the various procedural stages of the proceedings, in order to that it weighs on these limiting their claims subject to the court of first instance, as follows as well as any subsequent revisions it intends to the cause of action contained in these essential pleadings.
The aforementioned is directly related to the following with the provisions of Articles 160 and 170 N° 6 of the same Code. Procedure. The FIRST of these legal provisions considered as a positive expression of one of the formative principles of the process to which reference has already been made, that of congruence states that judgments must be pronounced in accordance with the merits of the same, and may not extend to points that have not been expressly submitted to trial by the parties (except insofar as the laws authorize or permit proceeding ex officio). The SECOND of the aforementioned precepts, in line with the one just transcribed, establishes that the operative part of the judgment must be limited to the matter in controversy, which includes all the actions and exceptions that have been asserted in the trial.
Fifth: That the reference to this provision is relevant to the arguments made in the appeal under analysis, since, as stated in the
judgment under appeal, the controversy was structured, on the one hand, with the plaintiff's (Simbalik’s) request to establish a mining easement of occupation and transit in land fiscal for the convenient y comfortable operation of the concessions called "KITCHEN (Cocina) 1 to 9", constituted under the effective of the Mining Code of 1932, in the Salar de Maricunga, located in the province of Copiapó, Atacama Region, based, among other antecedents, on the existence of an authorization from the Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission (CChEN) for the exploitation, extraction, production and commercialization of lithium extracted from these mining properties; and on the presentation of an Environmental Impact Study for the environmental evaluation of the exploitation of lithium in the Salar de Maricunga (project called "Production of Maricunga Salts"), accepted for processing according to the Resolution of the Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission (CChEN). Exenta No. 0750, dated June 13, 2018, of the Executive Direction of the Environmental Assessment Service (SEA). On the other hand, the response of the defendant (Codelco) at supported basically at the existence of a possible total or partial overlapping of the surface area requested to be taxed with the easement with respect to the area covered by a special contract of The State of Chile has entered into an agreement with Sociedad Salar de Maricunga SpA (a subsidiary of Codelco) for the operation of lithium deposits in the Salar de Maricunga and the need for the plaintiff (Simbalik) to prove the respective dominion and the justification of the lien it intends to place on public lands for the convenient and comfortable exploration and exploitation of its mining concessions. In addition stated that lithium is a mineral substance that has been excluded from mining since 1979 of the concessionable ones, leaving their domain, exploration and exploitation in the exclusive and excluding property of the State of Chile, recognizing that the non-denunciability is inapplicable to mining concessions prior to 1979, without prejudice to the possible overlapping that he pointed out.
The court of first instance, in keeping within the limits thus certain of the conflict submitted to its decision, it granted the request in the terms that its Court confirmed this, noting, as appropriate, that the allegation of the non-reportable nature of the lithium made by the defendant (Codelco) in the appeal, based on the fact that the mining properties of the plaintiff (Simbalik) were constituted only on "sodium chloride", being prevented from exploiting another mining substance, the claim, particularly lithium, by application of the Mining Code of 1932, was entirely new, and lacked support, not having been part of the answer to the claim.
Sixth: It is clear, then, that the criticisms of illegality that the appeal on the merits is directed against the judgment whose invalidation is sought were only made by the plaintiff (Simbalik) in his appeal against the first instance judgment, which constitute issues that were not part of the debate that took place between the parties and, therefore, were extraneous to the controversy, as seen upholding to the second instance judges.
Seventh: That, as far as this point is concerned, both the doctrine and the jurisprudence established by this Court are in agreement in the sense that it is inappropriate to base an appeal in cassation (definition: A court of cassation is a high-instance court that exists in some judicial systems. Courts of cassation do not re-examine the facts of a case, they only interpret the relevant law. In this they are appellate courts of the highest instance) on the merits on issues unrelated to the discussion formally produced in the proceeding. Therefore, this Court is prevented from reviewing any aspect of the cassation appeal on the merits that has been made in this case. the terms in which it was formulated deviated from the terms of the parties have submitted to its knowledge and resolution, since they constitute allegations that have not been duly incorporated and developed in the debate, and therefore, not having formed part of the controversy, the framework of which remained fixed with the claim and the defenses The Court cannot pronounce on them. Consequently, the violations attributed to the judgment in this sense cannot constitute errors of law for which reason the appeal under study must be dismissed.
In view of these considerations, and in addition, in view of the provisions of articles 765 and 767 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the appeal of marriage at background defendant, the Fisco de Chile, against the judgment of April 12, 2022 issued by the Court of Appeals of Copiapó. It is forewarned that Minister Andrea Muñoz concurs with the decision to reject the appeal in view of the following considerations:
1°) That the central issue to be elucidated, based on the allegations made by the State Defense Council, is whether it is legally permissible for a mining property constituted under the Mining Code of 1932, only for the exploitation of chloride is entitled to carry out the exploitation of lithium, a substance reserved in favor of the State by Decree Law No. 2886 of 1979;
2°) That the foregoing implies determining the scope to be given to the lithium reserve established in said legal body, in light of the new criteria contained in the 1983 Mining Code, which repealed the 1932, and the transitional regime provided for therein and in the Organic Law of 1932. Constitutional Law on Mining Concessions, to regulate the treatment of mining properties constituted under the Mining Code of 1932, during the term of the current Mining Code.
3°) That Decree Law No. 2886 establishes in its article 5°: "For if the national interest so requires, from the effective date of this decree law, lithium is reserved to the State. Exceptions to the provisions of the preceding paragraph only:
a) The lithium existing in constituted lithium or any of the substances of the first paragraph of Article 3 of the Mining Code, which, on the date of publication of this decree law in the Official Gazette, have their survey certificate registered, are in force, and whose The manifestation, in turn, has been registered before January 1, 1979.
b) The lithium existing in properties that, at the date of publication of this decree law in the Official Gazette, are in process and that are constituted on lithium or on any of the substances of the first paragraph of this decree law. From article 3° of the Code of Mining Code, provided that the process of The constitution of such belongings has originated in a manifestation that has been registered before January 1, 1979.
A law shall regulate the manner in which the State shall exercise the rights that it The Company is entitled to the lithium reserved to it by virtue of this article".
4°) That although the belongings that are the object of these proceedings were
constituted before 1979, relies solely on sodium chloride, only substance of paragraph 2 of article 3 of the Mining Code, for which its ° í ° or í holder was not empowered to exploit lithium or before the entry into validity of Decree Law No. 2886 or because of it, because the belongings excluded from the reservation refer to the substances of paragraph 1 of the aforementioned legal body.
5°) That, in accordance with the 1932 Mining Code, the holders of a mining property that was constituted on substances of subsection 2 of article 3°, were only entitled to become owners of the substances that had been the subject matter of the concession, which was not the case with the properties constituted on substances of subsection 1, which could become owners not only of them but also of all the others found within the limits of their ownership, unless there was another concessionaire, covering the same surface with the right to preferentially exploit the substances of subsection 2 of article 3.
The above is a reflection of certain characteristics that made the essence of the old regime, namely, the distinction between metallic substances (in paragraph 1) and non-metallic substances (in paragraph 2), and the fact that both types of properties could be constituted on the same surface, which meant an express authorization to overlap properties.
The system enshrined in the Mining Code currently in force differs fundamentally in these features from the regime of 1932, in that it makes no distinction whatsoever between mineral and non-metallic mineral properties, enshrining the right of the holder of a property to exploit all the concessionable mineral substances within its limits, and seeks to avoid the overlapping of properties. Such differences in the very conception of the system led to a total and express repeal of the Mining Code of 1932
6°) That, in consonance with the indicated, the Law Organic Law Article 3 of the Constitutional Decree on Mining Concessions establishes that "The powers conferred by mining concessions are exercised on the object constituted by the concessionable mineral substances existing in the territorial extension determined by the Mining Code..." (paragraph 1°); for then add that "are concessionable, and with respect to them may constitute mining concession, all metallic and non-metallic mining substances, and, in the case of In general, all fossil substances, in whatever form they are presented...". 2° (subparagraph) With regard to lithium, the referred norm, in its paragraph 4°, establishes that "Hydrocarbons are not susceptible to mining concessions. liquids or gases, lithium..., without prejudice to mining concessions validly constituted prior to the corresponding declaration of non-concessibility or importance for national security".
It follows from the foregoing that under the legislation currently in effect and the Decree Law No. 2886, who can exploit the lithium, are only the State and the holders of mining properties established prior to the declaration of non-concessionability. However, as noted above (4th ground), in accordance with the provisions of article 5°. letter a) of the the aforementioned Decree-Law, the exclusion of the lithium exploitation reserve in favor of the State. State, is nothing more than in benefit the belongings constituted on substances of paragraph 1°. of article 3 of the Code of Mining Law of 1932, and those that are the subject of these proceedings are substances of subsection 2 of article 3°.
With the aforementioned regulations, then, the answer to the problem raised in this case is negative.
7°) That, nevertheless, the transitory regime foreseen to regulate the treatment of mining properties constituted under the Mining Code of 1932, while the current Mining Code is in force, contains rules that lead to a different solution, as will be seen below.
In effect, the first transitory article 1 of the Constitutional Organic Law of Mining Concessions established that "The mining concessions in force at the date of entry into force of the new Mining Code, they shall subsist under the rule of the latter. However, with respect to their benefits and charges and, as regards their extinction, the provisions of said Code shall prevail." That is, in In terms of their benefits and charges, the properties will be governed by the current Mining Code, that of 1983, and not that of the year 32.
Article 2 regarding transitional period, in order to prevent the The overlapping of mining concessions, which, as we have seen, is due to the change in the criteria of the new mining regime, mandates the Mining Code to determine which of the overlapping mining concessions in force will survive. And, consequently, there will be to cover the substances that were granted to the concession that expires, as well as to those that were not granted. In the In this case, the Mining Code also mandates the Mining Code to determine the The mining concession in force, if it is a single concession, will be extended to the substances that were not granted to it.
8°) That this is how the 1983 Mining Code, in compliance with that task, it establishes in Article 1° transitional, which "The incorporation of mineral substances to the object of a property, in the cases indicated below, shall be governed by the following rules:" "N°5°. If there is only one property or one administrative concession of exploitation, it will incorporate to its object all the substances that were not granted and the substances that were not granted. which, by virtue of Law 18.097, become concessionable." It is undisputed that the properties that are the subject of these proceedings are in the first situation contemplated in the above-transcribed paragraph.
9°) That, as expressed by Mrs. Laura Novoa in a report submitted to the view, accompanied according to folio 230.275-2022, "Thus, the N°5 of the Article 1° transitory article 1 of the CM of 1983, includes the principle of concession. The only and all-encompassing legislation prevailing in the current mining legislation applies it without contemplation to the belongings of the 1932 CM (Mining Code) that are not found overlapping with others, empowering rightfully and openly to the holder of an only ownership constituted during the previous legislation to exploit all substances located on or below its surface, thus eliminating the distinction between the first clause and the second clause. And paragraph 2 of the repealed article 3 of the 1932 CM". It adds, with regard to the time to be taken into account to determine to which substances the first one is applicable extension of No. 5 of transitory article 1°, i.e., which are the substances that have not been granted and that become so, that "it is clear that it is the date on which the property was constituted", ruling out the possibility that it could be interpreted as referring to substances that may be granted
as of the enactment of the Organic Constitutional Law on Mining Concessions, since then the second extension established in No. 5 of transitory Article 1° (those that may be granted as of the date of the enactment of the Organic Constitutional Law on Mining Concessions) is not applicable to substances that may be granted as of the date of the enactment of the Organic Constitutional Law on Mining Concessions "would become unnecessary and become concessionable under the LOCCM) redundancy".
10°) That, by what reflected, abiding by strictly a the available at the article 1° transitory N°5 of the Code of Mining Code currently in force, it is necessary to conclude that the properties subject to the easement requested in these proceedings are entitled to incorporate all the substances included in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 3 of the Mining Code of 1932 at the time of their creation, among which lithium was included.
Agreed with the dissenting vote of Minister Blanco, who was of the opinion of accepting the appeal on the merits, taking into consideration
the following arguments:
No. 1. That, in the opinion of this dissenting party, this Court finds itself
fully empowered to hear this arbitration for two years. Orders The first, due to the mere request of the plaintiff for the constitution of mining easements for the occupation of public lands for the convenient and comfortable exploitation of the mining concessions indicated, and whose purpose
The ultimate goal is the exploitation of lithium by means of the authorization of such mining operations. This request, when contrasted with the abundant national legislation on this matter, reveals that this factual-normative confrontation is an unequivocal part of the legal problem to be solved, and even if the Chilean Treasury had not deployed its defense in this area area, the certainty is that the sentence censured at its The first is the substantive law issue underlying the environment, constituted by the exploitation of lithium by private parties, with respect to this substance, the use of which is reserved by law to the State of Chile.
In the second place, since the substantive regulation currently in force in this country The State has the dominion of the State over the absolute, exclusive, inalienable and imprescriptible of all mines and, In addition, the state reserve of lithium was established on the basis of the interest the organized community itself, a situation that has become a national specified by means of various legal instruments, it is deduced that the The exploitation of lithium by private parties is the real controversy in this case, and neither the parties involved in the litigation nor the judges called upon to resolve the legal conflict can ignore it, since the transcendence of the judgment in this case goes beyond the mere interest of the intervening parties and becomes a question of a higher objective order, whose implications could have repercussions for the country, probably in the mining and economic sectors, and could perhaps condition its future development. Finally, even in the event of accepting the thesis of the lack of concrete allegations by the Chilean Treasury regarding the specific point under discussion, the issue raised by its national importance must be addressed globally by this Court of cassation, because its conclusions, if erroneous, will create new legal realities that may affect a large number of people and this with the aggravating circumstance of having been co-sponsored by the legal system, a circumstance that cannot be admitted, in any respect whatsoever.
No. 2. That, the central question of law that arises in this trial and in the appeal is to determine whether in the instant case, one of the regulatory requirements to constitute a mining easement in favor of the mining properties owned by the plaintiff is met, that is to say, the need or utility that justifies its granting, since it has been discussed that the plaintiff's claim is for the exploitation, extraction, production and commercialization of Lithium extracted from them, in circumstances in which the concessions were granted to explore and exploit only Sodium Chloride. The previous question is to determine, first, whether the holder of mining concessions to exploit sodium chloride, constituted under the Mining Code of 1932, is or is not entitled to exploit the mineral substance lithium within the limits of such concession, taking into account the
establishment of the reserve in favor of the State of this mineral as of D.L. No. 2886, of 1979.
No. 3.That, it does not appear to be disputed or controverted in the file that the appellant's properties, detailed in paragraph A) of the second preceding recital, constituted in 1936, were - under the Mining Code of 1932 - exclusively for the exploitation of sodium chloride, as is evident from the registry entries referring to the certificates of ownership in force, titles of ownership, survey certificates and approving judgments accompanied by said party and not objected to on the contrary.
At the context of the framework regulatory framework at in force at time from The 1932 Mining Code, which was enacted under the Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile in 1932, was the basis for the granting of the concessions to the plaintiff (Simbalik). When in 925 that, to the said The law did not contain a definite status for the property, provided, as far as the present case is concerned, that in its article 3°, paragraph 1° that "Any interested party may constitute ownership in gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, platinum, cadmium, manganese, iron, nickel, cerium, ytterbium, germanium, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, uranium, cobalt, iridium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, arsenic, antimony, bismuth, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, strontium, gallium, barium, beryllium, zinc, mercury, lithium, titanium, thorium, zirconium, radium and precious stones, and in metallic-ferrous placers.", adding by its paragraph 2° that "It may also constitute membership on all other fossil substances, with the exception of rocks, sands and other applicable materials applicable directly a the construction. Still on these substances may constitute a property for another specific application industrial or ornamental". This same regulation, in accordance to the foregoing, it provided as a requirement, at the time of the respective judicial request for an injunction, in accordance with Article 21 thereof, then to individualize "the substance or substances to be investigated", which is the which was corroborated in the contents of the request, according to Article 33 N°3 thereof which referred to the designation of "the kind of mineral and the shape of the field". The regulatory framework of the time was completed by its article 82
which should be transcribed: "Once the act of measurement of ownership has been registered, the of any of the substances referred to in paragraph 1° above. From Article 3°, he becomes the owner not only of it, but also of all others found within the limits of his property, except those included in Article 3°, paragraphs 3° and 4° and in Article 4°.
The other concessionaires only become owners of the substances that have been the subject matter of the concession."
Two conclusions can be drawn from what has been transcribed in relation to the system that governed under the 1932 Mining Code: The first is that, unlike the current system, it did not establish in general terms for the holder of the concession the right to exploit all reportable substances found within the limits of the respective land, but rather the scope of this permit varied according to the substance that was the object of the
concession. The second, directly related to the previous one, is that it established an important distinction between those substances listed in paragraph 1 of article 3°, with respect to those referred to in its other paragraphs. In effect, on the one hand, with respect to the former, the holder of the property constituted for the exploitation of any of these substances, among which lithium was included, would become owner, in
addition to it, of all those found within the limits of the respective concession, with the exception of those included in paragraphs 3 and 4 of said article 3 and in article 4 of the legal body in question; and, on the other hand, with respect to the latter, that the holder of the property would become owner of all those found within the limits of the respective concession, with the exception of those included in paragraphs 3 and 4 of
said article 3 and in article 4 of the legal body in question; and, on the other hand, with respect to the latter, that the holder of the property would become owner of all those found within the limits of the respective concession, with the exception of those included in paragraphs 2 and 3 of said article 3. owner only of the substances that would have been the subject matter of the concession.
Corollary of the foregoing is that, on the one hand, only the holder of an ownership constituted for the exploitation of any substance from those listed in Article 3, paragraph 1° of the 1932 Code was entitled to exploit also the others listed therein, as well as those referred to in paragraph 2, and, on the other hand, on the contrary, the holder of a property constituted for the exploitation of any substance susceptible of concession, of those listed in subsections 2° (any other fossil substance, such as Sodium Chloride, as will be said) and following subsections of said article 3, was only authorized to exploit this substance in particular, the permit not extending to the exploitation of any other mineral existing in the concession-ed land.
Specifically now and given that lithium under these regulations was a substance listed in article 3, paragraph 1, it is possible to conclude that that, under the 1932 Code, this mineral could be exploited, either by the holders of properties established specifically for the exploitation of lithium, or by the holders of properties established for the exploitation of any of the other minerals established in the aforementioned paragraph 1 minerals of those listed in Article 3, paragraph 1° of the so many The Mining Code of 1932, nor in its third, fourth, fifth or sixth clauses, as well as in article 4°. of the same body of law, it was the permit was then included in the category of fossil substances referred to in paragraph 2 of the aforementioned article 3, so that a property constituted for the exploitation of Sodium Chloride only enabled the holder to exploit this substance, the permit not extending to any other substance, whatever its species or nature. In other words, this permit did not entitle the holder to exploit lithium.
No. 4. That, having established the foregoing, it is now necessary to examine whether this restrictive regulatory framework described for mining concessions such as those held by the plaintiff (Simbalik), was maintained as a result of the variations that Chile underwent the constitutional and legal status of mining in the country. At the constitutional level, Law No. 17.450 of 1971, which amends the Political Constitution of the Republic of 1925, is identified as the first constitutional regulation of mining property, by recognizing that the State has absolute, exclusive, inalienable and impressible dominion over all mines. This reform incorporated the transitory article 16 of the 1925 Constitution, by virtue of which the holders of mining rights would continue to be governed by the legislation in force (Mining Code of 1932) as concessionaires, until a new law was passed, under which they would subsist, but the provisions of the new law would prevail with respect to the enjoyment and burdens and the extinction of such rights. The said statute -constituted by the Constitutional Organic Law on Mining Concessions of 1982 and the Mining Code of 1983- would not be dictated until after the entry into force of the 1980 Constitution, which would maintain the same regime of exception as it appears from Article 2 transitional provision, which stipulates that until such time as it is the new holders of mining rights would continue to be governed by the legislation in force at the time this Constitution enters into force, as concessionaires, replicating the same rule as before, ie, their mining rights would subsist under the new Code, but as to their enjoyment and burdens and as to their extinction, the provisions of said new Mining Code would prevail.
At the legal level, Decree Law No. 2886 of 1979 established that the reserve of lithium based on the national interest, providing in article 1°, which amended Article 3, paragraph 1°, of the Mining Code of 1932, eliminating the references to uranium, lithium and thorium, and substituting article 4°, adding -among others- the mentioned substances within the scope of minerals reserved to the State. Particularly the first paragraph of its Article 5 provided that "As required by the national interest, as of the date of In effect of this decree law, lithium is reserved to the State", being only exempted, as it appears from its paragraph 2°, letters:
"a) Lithium in existing constituted belongings, on lithium or on any of the substances of the first paragraph of article 3° of the Mining Code, which, in order to the date of publication of this decree law in the Official Gazette, have their registered survey deed, are in force, and whose manifestation, at the time of their time, has been registered prior to the 1st January 1979; and
b) Lithium existing in properties that, on the date of publication of this decree law in the Official Gazette, were in process and that are constituted on lithium or on any of the substances of the first paragraph of Article 3 of the Mining Code, provided that the process of constitution of such properties had originated in a declaration that was registered before January 1, 1979".
Up to this point, it can be concluded that the regulation dating back to 1932, which established lithium as one of the reportable substances that could be the object of a mining property by any interested party, was left without effect, since the new regulation removed this character, and the mineral became a state reserve, although always expressly safeguarding the rights of those who were previously authorized or in the process of being authorized for its exploitation, that is, and as already concluded, only for the holders of properties constituted or in the process of being constituted on lithium; or on any of the substances of the paragraph of Article 3° of the 1932 Code, so that in the case of the case of a holder of sodium chloride properties under this legal body, the company has become full validity of the reserve The general lithium concession in favor of the State established by this Decree Law of 1979, making this substance non-concessionable or non-reportable.
In the same vein, Law No. 18.097, of 1982, Constitutional Organic Law on Mining Concessions, according to paragraph 4°. Article 3 of its Article 3, corroborated the foregoing by providing that "The following are not The following are eligible for mining concessions: liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons, lithium, deposits of any kind existing in maritime waters subject to national jurisdiction and deposits of any kind located, in whole or in part, in areas determined by law to be of importance for national security for mining purposes, without prejudice to mining concessions validly constituted under the terms of a mining concession.
Prior to the corresponding declaration of non-importance to national security." In connection with the concessions prior to the enactment of this Organic Constitutional Law, its Article 1°. The transitional provision reiterated the aforementioned the 2nd rule of the Political Constitution of 1980
Finally, the 1983 Mining Code, with respect to substances not eligible for concessions, including lithium, reiterates that available at the article 3° of of the Law Organic Law Constitutional Law of Mining Concessions, as it appears from the reading of its article 7°, providing that these substances, although they are not subject to concession, may be explored and/or exploited in the manner indicated in the following article 8°, ie, "... may be executed directly by the State or by its companies, or by means of administrative concessions or special operating contracts (CEOLs), with the requirements and under the conditions established by the President of the Republic, in each case, by supreme decree".
Particular attention should be made article 1° transitional from this Code. This transitory provision determines the manner in which the incorporation of the mineral substances to the object of a belonging will occur, in the cases that there and whose operative field is limited to the hypothesis of overlapping mining concessions.
Rule 5, according to which "If only one administrative exploitation property or concession exists, it will incorporate into its object all the substances that were not granted, and which, by virtue of Law No. 18,097, become concessionable". As it is expressed, Law No. 18.097 provided, on the one hand, in paragraph 4°, that Article 3° that lithium was not susceptible to mining concessions, without prejudice to mining concessions validly constituted prior to the corresponding declaration of non-concessibility or of importance for the national security; and, on the other hand, in its article 2°. transitional, whose The operational field is limited to the hypothesis of mining concessions.
The Code, which was to be enacted the following year, would determine the manner in which the concessions were to be granted, and the way in which the concessions were to be granted and the manner in which the concessions were to be granted and extend the current mining concession, if only one, to the substances that were not granted to it. For these purposes, in the case of overlapping, reads verbatim its paragraph 3°, "...it is considered that:
1. uranium were included in the first paragraph of article 3°. from Mining Code of 1932, and
2. that the substances indicated in Article 4° of that Code, except for petroleum in liquid or gaseous state, were referred to in the second paragraph of the aforementioned article 3°."
Rule 5 of Article 1 transitional provision of the Mining Code of 1983 must be interpreted systematically, in accordance with article 22 of the Civil Code, in order to provide due correspondence and harmony not only to the precepts of the law itself, but also to the constitutional and legal mining statute as a whole. Indeed, interpreting the transitory rule in order to understand that the holders of sodium chloride concessions, who by virtue of the statute in force at the time of their constitution never acquired any right to extend their concession to the the exploitation of the lithium, it would have been acquired in 1983 under this transitional rule contained in the Code, it would mean to conclude - contrary to all logic- that the same rule would have made subsist a mining right that was never constituted in favor of the holder, and it is precisely contrary to all reasoning that what never existed can subsist. But even if this logical barrier is overcome and the transitional rule could have incorporated or integrated to the sodium chloride concessions the right to exploit lithium, making these mining concessions enter into the qualification of those validly constituted before, and therefore subsisting under the 1983 Mining Code, it must not be forgotten that the transitional rule could have made the right to exploit lithium subsist, it must not be forgotten that, in their exercise (their enjoyment and charges), the provisions of said Code must also prevail, and its permanent provisions, as well as those of the Political Constitution of the Republic and of the Constitutional Organic Law on Mining Concessions, reiterate the reserved and unapproachable nature of lithium established as from 1979.
Thus In other words, this limiting regulatory framework for the concessions mining companies such as those of the plaintiff, on the substance Sodium Chloride, which, as already stated, did not qualify its holder for the exploitation of lithium, constituted under the Mining Code of 1932, remained unchanged with the new regulation that constitutes the current constitutional and legal status of mining in Chile.
No. 5. That, in this same order of ideas, it is still necessary to dwell on the regulation contained in Law No. 16.319 of 1965, which creates the Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission, hereinafter CChEN, which is identified as a first manifestation of state concern for those minerals related to atomic energy, in order to discard the thesis that supports the contested judgment.
It is well known that Article 5 booked to the State the deposits of natural atomic minerals that exist in free soils or in those that exist in free soils covered by the belongings of item 2°. of article 3 of the Code of Mining Law of 1932, except for those properties included in paragraph 1°. from the same article that are in force, and these substances may be exploited by reserved only by Empresas del Estado or by CChEN. Without notwithstanding the foregoing, lithium was not considered as a natural nuclear material in the D.S. N°450 -Regulation of this Law- and the above mentioned state reserve is not applicable to it. Consequently, the legal treatment of lithium is not altered , being fully applicable the general rules of the 1932 Code. This regulation, however, changed in 1976, with the publication of DL N° 1557, which modifies the Organic Law of the CChEN and positions lithium as a material of nuclear interest at a legal level, consecrating a more restrictive regulation of the mineral in question.
At In this context, this organ begins to have control over lithium only with regard to its collection, declaring this of public utility. The expropriation was authorized by Supreme Decree.
No. 6. That, in accordance with all that has been reasoned, it must be concluded that there is no concurrence of the basic regulatory requirement to constitute a mining easement of occupancy in favor of of the properties owned by the plaintiff (Simbalik), that is, the need or utility that justifies its granting when the purpose pursued is the exploitation, extraction, production and commercialization of lithium extracted from them, in circumstances in which its concessions only allow it to explore and exploit Sodium Chloride, without being allowed to extend it to any other substance, whatever its species or nature.
Indeed, Article 120 of the Mining Code, in its paragraph 1°, clearly determines that it is "in order to facilitate the convenient and comfortable mining exploration and exploitation" that the licensee (Simbalik) can impose these limitations on the surface soil domain In the same.
The terms of paragraph 1° are as follows of article 8 of Law No. 18.097, Organic Law Constitutional Law on Mining Concessions, which provides that "The holders of mining concessions have the right to the establishment of easements appropriate for mining exploration and exploitation". This is corroborated by Article 19 N°24, paragraph 6°, in its final part, of the Political Constitution of the Republic by prescribing that "Surface properties will be subject to the obligations and limitations established by law to facilitate the exploration, exploitation and benefit of such mines."
The need and usefulness of establishing an easement in favor of the plaintiff's concessions is not apparent if its practical or real purpose is to carry out the mining work to enable the exploitation and processing from lithium, no can be found at be fulfilled, precisely because the The concessions it holds do not give it the right to explore or exploit that mineral substance. To impose this tax by allowing the occupation of a fiscal property would, therefore, lack the cause to justify it.
No. 7. That, thus In the opinion of this dissident, it is evident that the judgment under appeal has been issued in violation of the law, since it has made an erroneous application of the rules set forth in Article 8 of the Organic Constitutional Law on Mining Concessions and Article 120 of the Mining Code, by establishing as concurrent the requirements set forth in these provisions to constitute a mining easement of occupation in favor of the concessions of the plaintiff, encumbering the property. superficial prosecutor, what should have been the sentence to be amended by depriving the value of this erroneous application of the law has had a substantial influence on the decision, since from had had been considered correctly these precepts legal, it should have the opposite conclusion to the one reached the court and, consequently, to revoke the judgment of first degree, dismissing it in all its parts.
Drafting by Minister María Cristina Gajardo Harboe.
Register and return. Rol 13.228-2022
Pronounced by the Fourth Chamber of the Supreme Court composed of Justices Ricardo Blanco H., Andrea Muñoz S., María Cristina Gajardo H., Diego Simpertigue L., and the alternate justice.
Mr. Hernan Gonzalez G. Ministers Blanco and Simpertigue, notwithstanding having attended the hearing and the agreement of the case, due to the former being on medical leave and the latter being on legal holiday. Santiago, April 5, 2023
ANDREA MARIA MARIA MERCEDES
MUÑOZ SANCHEZ
MINISTER
Date: 05/04/2023 13:55:27 PM
MARIA CRISTINA GAJARDO HARBOE
MINISTRA
Date: 05/04/2023 13:55:28 PM
HERNÁN FERNANDO GONZÁLEZ
GARCÍA
MINISTER(S)
Date: 05/04/2023 14:23:43
In Santiago, on the fifth day of April, two thousand and twenty-three, the
foregoing resolution was included in the Diario Oficial. April 5, 2023
.
After Simbalikass-whooping, Codelco_announces big investment_cutbacks
Codelco announces austerity plan to invest in structural projects
https://www-nuevamineria-com.translate.goog/revista/codelco-anuncia-plan-de-austeridad-para-invertir-en-proyectos-estructurales/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US
Dear Codelco, with respect to your humiliating loss and ask-whooping in the Chilean Supreme Court (TC) yesterday... well it couldn't have happened to more deserving low-life backstabbingprick than you. You also need to fire more male salaried workers (especially engineers) at Codelco and hire the 90-day-wonder engineering graduate lesbos/dykes from job-placement agency Anti-Mining Marcela Hernando's female team to replace those hardworking men you fire.
The Doctor
Jackofalltrades_really turning_up the_bullsheet machine_today
https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/lpi-the-next-lithium-producer-in-chile.6650218/page-3100?post_id=67170363
He must be losing hisass on LPI now at these low prices and trying to get some suckers to buy in.
Oh look how long his nose is growing.
The Doctor
Dear no-engineering-degree Anti-Mining Marcela, CONVENIENT how?
Minister of Mining: "It is CONVENIENT for Chile that our neighbors develop the lithium industry"
https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/ministra-de-mineria-a-chile-le-conviene-que-nuestros-vecinos-desarrollen-la-industria-del-litio/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Youfockingmoron... you are just embarrassing yourself now saying stupid dingbat sheet like this about working with make-believe imaginary tools as we wait and wait and wait and wait. There is no worthwhile convenience or advantage or gained-superiority over having Argentina, Bolivia, Peru and next Brazil beat our frazzledasses down further into the crapper as they take ever-increasing larger shares of the worldwide White Gold lithium market.
You need to learn the Golden Rule you simpleton moron... He who controls the Gold, controls the deal.
Or, in our case... He who control the White Gold controls the deal.
With you as Minister of Mining, Chile will be sucking hind tit for another 3 years while all these other "neighboring" countries knock us further down the totem pole into the crapper diminishing Chile's ability to control anything even remotely related to lithium.
You need to STFU.
The Doctor
World_Bank projects_Chile's GDP_growth at_minus 0.7%_for 2023
https://miningpress-com.translate.goog/nota/354442/el-pronostico-del-banco-mundial-para-latam-el-pesimismo-para-argentina-y-las-cifras-de-chile-y-peru?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
2020 minus 6.0%
2021 plus 11.7%
2022 plus 2.4%
2023 minus 0.7% estimate
2024 plus 2.1% estimate
2025 plus 2.2% estimate
The fastest way to ruin a government is to elect a bunch of naive idealist young inexperienced pampered leftist/commie children heavy on fags/queers/lesbians/dykes into the government.
The Doctor
I_bet Albemarle_petitions CORFO_to drop_40%cut_down to_30%when_NLP
is ultimately published... that is, if the NLP does not take the obvious very-wise initiative and pre-reduce CORFO's "cut" down to 30% in order to reach immediate parity with the potential new class of higher-tech junior lithium miners wanting to come on board. Ditto for SQM in Atacama.
"Maintaining" CORFO's outrageous current 40% cut is the stumbling block right now for Boric... and Finance Minister Mario Marcel including ex-Corfo Eduardo Bitran now at Codelco know it.
Bank of America Slashes Price Targets of ALB, LTHM – Shares Fall
https://www.tipranks.com/news/bank-of-america-slashes-price-targets-of-alb-lthm-shares-fall
The Doctor
Beware_Jackofalltrades trying_to convince_you Codelco_deal is_activating
https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/lpi-the-next-lithium-producer-in-chile.6650218/page-3091?post_id=67161309
Jackofalltrades is pumping you newbies and he is full of sheet.
Codelco is no closer to completing a deal with LPI on our Maricunga project than it was 2 years ago which was just a bunch of empty-promises horsesheet back then with no financial support to the project as it is today. Testing drilling for lithium by Codeclo since 2016 has started up and fizzled out 4 times on their property and currently still even now won't be finished until the end of June 2023 https://dfmas-df-cl.translate.goog/df-mas/por-dentro/las-grietas-en-la-estrategia-de-codelco-para-controlar-el-litio-chileno?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp see paragraph 8... Codelco still has not even completed the first obligatory terms of their exploration phase in Maricunga as defined in their CEOL https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170899615 much less even laid out a plan for the Congress to approve on how Codelco will develop/finance/manage a lithium mining asset in the Maricunga range. All this April 2023 talk of Codelco getting involved in our project based on a still undefined/half-baked NLP is just a bunch of horsesheet... that is all it has been for the last 7 long years and all it will be for years into the future.
The Doctor
Codelco_Máximo Pacheco:_"Explain the_NLP to_me! Explain_NLP to_me!"
Explain thefocking NLP to me in plain Spanish for gripes sake! What is thefocking NLP (National Lithium Policy)!!!
https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/04/maximo-pacheco-afirma-que-espera-conocer-la-politica-nacional-del-litio?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en cries out poor lost-in-the-dark Máximo Pacheco.
Where can I get a hardcopy of the NLP to read? It is not downloadable on the Ministry of Mining website https://www-minmineria-cl.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui
Dear Anti-Mining Minister Marcela Hernando, if Codelco CEO Máximo Pacheco doesn't even know what the NLP is then how in thefock is anyone else (other than your ditzy ask-licking leftist/commie lesbian/dyke 90-day wonder recent engineering graduate groupies) to know WTF to do in mining the lithium in Maricunga? Clearly Codelco, ENAMI, and CORFO have no idea what to do with NLP... or they would be doing it right now. Plus they don't have any money to even start mining lithium... they are useless without a handout from this leftist/commie government, and that first lithium-related handout will have to be huge... over a billion US dollars just to start the ball rolling.
The Doctor
Anti-Mining Marcela_continues babbling_adding more_delay to_NLP/NLC
resolution with her deliberate "no solutions from me" all-hot-air campaign to continually postpone/obfuscate any real lithium mining clarification/resolution until she can become president of Chile in 2026 and then suck up all the lithium "gravy" & glory for the her ultra-communist RP (Radical Party) https://www-emol-com.translate.goog/noticias/Economia/2023/04/05/1091373/litio.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp kicking wishy-washy limpdick Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric into the gutter.
You all do remember that it was just yesterday she refused to meet with Deputy Miguel Mellado the President of the Economic Commission for the Lower Chamber of Deputies to testify before that commission on the finer points of actually enacting a permanent National Lithium Policy (NLP) which does not yet exist in hardcopy legislation through the Congress https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171616877
... a real NLP that would finally supersede (ie overrule) anything Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric could halfheartedly declare "winging it" on lithium mining through executive order(s) and thereby castrate Marcela's fiendish self-aggrandizing RP-enriching plan in midair to hold off all lithium legislation until she is president in 2026.
The Doctor
Dear_Mongolia, who is_getting err_taking your_lithium? Russia or_China?
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3216112/divorce-mongolia-landlocked-between-russia-and-china-fears-new-cold-war?module=live&pgtype=homepage
Since Russia is flopping horribly on taking Ukraine's lithium in the Donbas and their Bolivian lithium mining takeover for them (ie Russia) through Rosatom is 2 years behind schedule (as if Bolivian beaners could ever be on schedule for anything)... it now looks more like the Russkis really want your Mongolian lithium twice as bad as before https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Materials/Mongolia-seeks-foreign-help-to-produce-minerals-used-for-EVs (note: that is "before" they come for ours through the Red Corridor) even as much as China wants to lock it up also. So tell us, does Mongolia have a power-hungry "wants-to-be-president" lesbian/dyke communist Minister of Mining conducting shady non-transparent self-enriching "discussions" behind closed doors with the Russians or the Chinese to the detriment of Mongolia?
Well if you Mongolians ever want to come to Chile then we would be happy to meet and give to you our playbook from Chile if that would help your effort to step into the 21st century globalized world on lithium trade. It is not that we are successful in international globalized trade of lithium, but we have taken a copious amount of notes on the topic.
The Doctor
USA_Senator Bob_Menendez: Oooo_China bad...Oooo USA_good
https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/entrevista-con-el-senador-bob-menendez-tras-su-reunion-con-boric-hay-inquietudes-de-empresas-de-eeuu-por-el-litio-y-las-pensiones/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Trying to analyze or distill any of this mush into intelligent bullet points is too much of a stretch and basically pointless. Suffice to say the USA indeed wants Chilean lithium but like all previously "burned" Whitey gringos internationally the USA is not willing to pump any more of its hard-earned cash (and eventual military assistance when Bolivia/Venezuela/Russia attempts to reclaim the Red Corridor) into thisshithole two-bit backward-looking leftist/commie banana republic until Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric gets down to brass tacks and finally produces a readable/solid binding NLP (National Lithium Policy) supported by all his thieving conniving double-dealing scamming ministers and the Chilean Congress.
The Doctor
Dear_Used Car_Salesman Nicolás_Grau, today_we hear_you blathering_on
again (and again) about too much water being wasted during lithium mining operations https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/grau-admite-atraso-en-anuncio-de-politica-nacional-del-litio-pero-asegura-que-va-a-estar-durante-abril/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp see paragraph 4. Is lithium mining really the true culprit in this water-saving crusade you have recently mounted now that lithium is no longer selling for a paltry US$7,000/mt but rather an eye-popping/whopping US$52,000/mt?
If indeed you are so water-saving conscious now then why are you not attacking the agricultural growing industries in Chile with the same vigor you are attacking us lithium miners to save water by implementing additional unproven expensive massive-electricity-consuming DLE machinery completely outside the realm of our approved SEA permit which we worked on obtaining for 7 years?
It is the mega-farmer Agricultural industries that are misusing the water you want to retain for Chile. It is these rapacious farmers who more need your magical DLE-type water re-injection-into-the-ground machines.
See the newest yearly figures for industries' water consumption in Chile on page 77 of 104 in the Consejo Minero Annual Report for 2022
https://consejominero.cl/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Book_mining_6thedition.pdf
Mining 4%
Electricity 5%
Industry 7%
Drinking Water 12%
Agriculture 72%
If in your lily-white altruistic heart you were really so honestly worried about excessive "water loss" then how is it you are not bitching today about all the water these mega-farmers are stealing by illegally diverting streams at the higher altitudes in concert with their illegally drilled water wells in dry riverbeds/arroyos drilled under the cover of darkness nearer their huge farms, plus the kick-in-your-nuts over-watering of their avocados/wine-producing-grapes/vegetables/fruits to be exported to China taking all this precious water (a net liquid 15% of the 72% bled off to "feed" the entire agricultural industry) pumped straight into the mouths of fat new-rich Chinese middle-class instead of the mouths of poor little thirsty Chilean babes in the Santiago barrios you were sworn-in to protect in this Boric government?
You need to get your facts right... the mining industry is not your bogeyman. The out-of-control-ultra-rich mega-farmers in Chile stealing all this precious water you are only recently so upset over are the bogeyman you want to crush (or at least squeeze their nuts until they pay you off properly like you are now trying to squeeze us junior lithium miners with these articles on our "possible" water over-use).
The Doctor
Minister_Nicolás Grau:_keep moving_past the_mangled bodies,_nothing to
see here. As Chile's Top Used Car Salesman for 2022 & 2023 you can believe me. Everything is fine, don't worry. And especially don't worry that numerous cabinet officials and un-elected bureaucrats are sticking their slimy greasy fingers in the new lithium pie trying to scoop out a nice big fat tasty sugar plum for themselves before the NLC is solidified.
Everything in Chile is peachy-keen "positive"... trust me. These unexplained delays are normal. https://www-cnnchile-com.translate.goog/lodijeronencnn/entrevista-nicolas-grau-crecimiento-economico-imacec-chile_20230404/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
PS, are you in the market for a nice used car with low miles? Then step on up to the hole in the bolted front door so you can hear me better.
Máximo_Pacheco: Tell_me the_NLP, tell_me the_NLP, tell_methefockingNLP
please for the love of god, tell me thenewfocking NLP (National Lithium Policy)!!!
https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/04/maximo-pacheco-afirma-que-espera-conocer-la-politica-nacional-del-litio?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Marcela_& Nicolás_Grau snub Chamber of Deputies: gofockyourselves
(edit paraphrased) says Marcela & Nicolas to President of the Economic Commission legislative body Miguel Mellado who is holding congressional hearings on the lithium impasse in Chile
https://www.portalminero.com/wp/sqm-y-albemarle-analizan-la-situacion-del-litio-del-pais-en-la-camara-de-diputados/ see paragraph 3 where President Miguel Mellado expresses his annoyance at Anti-Mining Minister Marcela Hernando and used-car-salesman Minister of Economy Nicolás Grau for ignoring their subpoenas to appear and give testimony to the Chamber. Properly schooled Albemarle and SQM obeyed their subpoenas and gave testimony.
Dear President Miguel Mellado, as you may know Marcela wants to be president of Chile in 2026 and Queen of Chile in 2030... consequently you must properly learn to kiss her royalass if you want her to appear in your "small" plebeian Chamber of Deputies from now on. Currently, between jam-packing freshly graduated engineering lesbos/dykes into make-work jobs at captive mining companies she controls (to cultivate future election female votes for herself) and secretly campaigning for 2026 president plus conducting her "private" negotiations (sans Willy Kracht) with wannabe junior lithium miners... she simply does not have enough time in her busy schedule for the Chamber of Deputies anymore, so grab a number from the red-colored waiting machine tab dispenser in her lobby... and wait some more. Or, simply repeal the Pinochet-era Strategic Mineral classification on lithium in the Congress... that will then get Marcela's undivided attention to your agenda within 60 minutes... tops.
The Doctor
Used_car salesman_spokesman Nicolás_Grau so_sad: says NLP_delayed
again https://www-emol-com.translate.goog/noticias/Economia/2023/04/04/1091257/grau-litio.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
As you all will remember the first "sort of official" mention of a NLP (National Lithium Policy) emerged on January 26, 2016 under President Michele Bachelet https://www.gob.cl/en/news/president-bachelet-chilean-lithium-will-not-be-a-case-of-frustrated-development-but-an-example-of-a-well-built-future/
The early NLP was not actually enumerated/well-defined at that time in 2016 and said to be "a work in progress". Since 2016 it has been a continual game of whack-a-mole trying to get anyone in this pass-the-buck government to give the public a hardcopy of the NLP and this responsibility has been passed through countless responsibly-dodging personnel which most infamously has included talking-head porker Aurora Williams, ribbon-cutting Baldo Prokurica, "hire more lesbos/dykes" Marcela Hernando and now used car salesman king-of-word-salads slimeball Nicolás_Grau who is today telling us the NLP will be delayed again for the 566 or 567 time since January 26, 2016.
It appears the current load of conniving corrupt thieving bureaucrats in this leftist/commie government haven't yet been able to line up a sufficient number of back-alley shady payoffs under-the-table from rape-able captive "lithium players" to support their wannabe luxury lifestyles so the NLP needs to be pushed back yet another month.
Oh wait, there is good news just in for these slimeball politicians/bureaucrats... Authorities add almost 100 lobby meetings for lithium https://www-nuevamineria-com.translate.goog/revista/autoridades-suman-casi-100-reuniones-de-lobby-por-litio/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US
Well surprise surprise... now all these deliberately-foot-dragging politicians/bureaucrats can meet with at least 40 brand new Whitey/gringo lobbyists and possibly shake them down for a good old-fashion "cash-on-the-barrel" (note: Vimeo will be accepted) bribe/kickback/payoff/whatever to have the new NLP "customized" by Mommy's boy Gabby Boric to suit their "special" interests.
Well well, isn't that special.
The Doctor
Don't_take your_eyes off_Finance Minister_Mario Marcel_again
https://www-maray-cl.translate.goog/proyecto-de-royalty-ministro-marcel-detalla-forma-de-distribucion-de-los-recursos-que-se-recauden/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Mario Marcel is Roy Kent... he's here, he's there, he's everyfocking where
Dear_Naive TheCrabPest,_the clarification_of the_NLP will not_open
the door on M&A activity in Chile you silly boy https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/lpi-the-next-lithium-producer-in-chile.6650218/page-3075?post_id=67118304 as you are hawking/pumping on LPI-HotCopper today. The coming NLP will only solidify the creeping hold the ultra-communist RP (Radical Party) has on every lithium mining negotiation inside Chile through 2026 (and perhaps until 2030 when the SQM & CORFO contract expires if Marcela Hernando wins the 2026 presidential election) in exchange for RP continuing to vote yes on Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric's legislative agenda through 2026. If the RP is in charge of all those negotiations (eg https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171606093 ) then you can bet every top RP official's brother/sister-in-law will get a choice sugar-plum easy-peasy 4-year term "make work" service maintenance (US$1,000,000/month minimum) contract on a new lithium mining site for doing nothing plus whatever additional extra royalty they can squeeze off for their "homeys" back in the hood. If that sister-in-law is also a lesbian/dyke then the monthly free-money-from-heaven stipend (grease) could possibly jump to US$2,000,000 per month.
This is beaner Chile... not Whitey Sydney Australia.
The Doctor
Dear_CATL/Brunp, wild_guess here,_but are_you starting_in Chile in_2026?
CATL/Brunp_in Chile_again... talking_talking talking_w/Anti-Mining Marcela,
former representative of the Radical Party Lily Perez, and other opportunistic wiggling-in Ministers like Nicolás Grau looking to "get into the driver's seat on lithium" https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/gigante-china-de-baterias-de-litio-se-reune-via-ley-de-lobby-con-economia-y-mineria-y-llega-acompanada-de-ex-senadora-y-ex-jefe-de-la-secom-s1242054.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
Dear CATL/Brunp, did you bring a nice big fat bag of cash of untraceable non-sequentially numbered bills to Chile on this 2nd trip? There is no need to ask you this question about your first trip a half year ago... clearly you didn't bring "the special overnight bag" on the first trip... otherwise there probably wouldn't have been a need for this "40-minute hush hush quickly-in quicker-out" second trip.
The Doctor
PS, Dear Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric, does it bother you at all that the RP (Radical Party) was completely running this tête-à-tête with CATL/Brunp and that your designated Approve Dignity man-on-the-ground Undersecretary Willy Kracht was not even invited as a polite/routine courtesy to attend this important 40-minute wham-bam-slam meeting to take notes?
Dear_Chilean Leftists/Commies, stop_sucking up_our lithium...it could
make you even more stupid/addled https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3931373-lithium-contaminated-water-in-pregnancy-linked-to-increased-risk-of-autism/
The Doctor
Easter_is Sunday._By Tuesday_5PM everything_will be_shut down_in Shile
especially this government.
Attention_all Chilean_grifters, scammers,_extortionists, con-men...according
to the latest news today there is room for all of you in the new Chilean Lithium industry... especially if you are card-carrying leftist or a commie.
Pacheco sobre la participación de Codelco en la industria del litio: “Con estos precios cualquiera tiene vocación”
Pacheco on Codelco's participation in the lithium industry: "With these prices, everyone has a vocation"
Monday,_not a_single_mention of_Boric's NLP_or NLC_or if_he pooped
his diapers last night? Anti-Mining Minister Marcela Hernando and her ultra-commie RP (Radical Party) are going to sabotage this week's announcement on any NLP (National Lithium Policy) "clarification/expansion" sure as the sun rose this morning. And she is going to crush every future announcement by Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric until 2026 when she is president and can "warp" this whole Chilean lithium industry to suit the RP's communist agenda replete with fat juicy pay-offs (and sweet plum "maintenance" subcontracts) to her supporters.
The Doctor
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Director:_Chile not_advancing on_lithium
https://www-reporteminero-cl.translate.goog/noticia/noticias/2023/03/director-recursos-naturales-pwc-indica-chile-no-avanza-ritmo-esperado-respecto-litio?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Codelco_asks: WTF_is going_on with_the NLP_and the_NLC?
Pacheco and doubts about Codelco's role in lithium" I hope the national company is created"
https://www-terram-cl.translate.goog/2022/05/pacheco-y-dudas-de-rol-de-codelco-en-el-litio-espero-que-se-cree-la-empresa-nacional/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
We are all in the dark with Marcela Hernando in charge.
The Doctor
PS, The Codelco test results from Maricunga (after 8-10 months of testing) that were due in 2017 are being delayed again until beginning of 2024. See paragraph 5 in above linked story.
Albemarle_says, well_it's time...let's start_investing in_Argentina lithium
https://www-redimin-cl.translate.goog/el-plan-de-albemarle-inversion-de-us-47-millones-en-argentina-y-doblar-apuesta-por-chile/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
If_Codelco planned to_inject US$673M_into LPI,_I think it_just got_zapped
from the future budget https://www-nuevamineria-com.translate.goog/revista/excedentes-de-codelco-caen-y-produccion-seguira-a-la-baja-en-2023/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US
or https://miningpress-com.translate.goog/nota/354377/como-avanzan-los-proyectos-de-codelco-las-cifras-del-balance?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The Doctor
PS, Dear Codelco, fire more men from salaried positions and hire more leftist daddy's newly-university-graduated lesbos/dykes from Anti-Mining Minister Marcela Hernando's team... that will solve all your problems.
Update on the Red Corridor
You remember the Red Corridor... right? The Red Corridor is the land Bolivia (with the help of Russia, Iran, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) wants back from Chile in order to ship its lithium overland by rail to the Pacific Ocean coast and on to Vladivostok Russia?
So what's the update you ask? Well, Venezuela is successfully "loading up Chile with plenty of Venezuelans" top to bottom... Half of the foreign workers are Venezuelans and there is already around 500,000 https://www-latercera-com.translate.goog/pulso/noticia/la-mitad-de-los-trabajadores-extranjeros-son-venezolanos-y-ya-bordean-los-500-mil/DHJYJCTN25H2LCWY2QEKHDC4DM/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en
Taking back the Red corridor is going to be a piece of cake for Bolivia if this lop-sided immigration situation of easily "planting" Venezuelans inside Chile keeps up.
The Doctor
Silly_LPI-HotCopperites focusing_on Minister_of Economy Nicolás_Grau
https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/lpi-the-next-lithium-producer-in-chile.6650218/page-3059?post_id=67094833
and https://hotcopper.com.au/threads/lpi-the-next-lithium-producer-in-chile.6650218/page-3060?get_post=true
Nicky is like all the other scammingfocks looking for a golden payday in this leftist/commie government included Anti-Mining Marcela.
You all (in LPI-HC) need to refocus in Chile and watch Minister of Finance Mario Marcel for now. Mario is going to tell us which way the wind is blowing "nice & early" in Chile for good or for bad. If we are in for a bad storm then Mario will give us the warning sign... then we simply put a cork in our butts and wait "it" out until Chile is so desperate for foreign cash (which is not IMF cash) that "things" turn in our favor inside Chile. We have about $25,000,000 worth of staying power... we can well use it for another year if need be. Don't listen to any other Ministers in this government, they are all looking to be first in line to scam/screw us especially when they step outside their ministerial expertise to comment on lithium. When Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric finally comes to his senses (hopefully well before 2026) or when 3/5 of the Congress comes to their senses voting to actually support junior lithium miners (eg repeal Strategic Mineral classification on lithium and/or allowing 51%+ private ownership of lithium mines,) then we make our move. Until then all we are going to hear from the members of this leftist/commie cabinet is ear-pollution noise from the scammers, extortionists, thieves trying to set themselves up "in the driver's seat" for a payoff (or future sweetheart service contract for basically doing nothing on the project mining site for an outrageous US$1,000,000 per month like sweeping the wisps of snow off automobile windshields or supplying el-cheapo hot coffee to the miners or taking useless air-quality readings, etc).
The Doctor
Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel: These_4yrs of_government will_be economically_lost
https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/klaus-schmidt-hebbel-estos-cuatro-anos-de-gobierno-seran-economicamente-perdidos-s1214445.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
The Doctor
Front_page news_Santiago... Lithium_boom in_Argentina that_threatens
to overshadow Chile (Latercera.com) English https://vnexplorer-net.translate.goog/el-boom-del-litio-en-argentina-que-amenaza-con-eclipsar-a-chile-s1205025.html?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
Sunday afternoon over lunch every Chilean beaner is going to be asking themselves, "how is it that intelligent Mommy's Boy Gabby Boric can't do the same thing right here in Chile with our lithium for us poor citizens just like the government in Argentina is doing with their lithium for its citizens?"
Dear Chilean Beaners, the reason Chile can't do the same thing for you on lithium is because Chile is overly chock full of scamming conniving corrupt leftist/commie politicians trying to first rake off a slimy commission, kickback, or fake long-term 2%-5% service contract with the miners exclusively just for themselves "under the table" before they give the "go ahead approval" in Congress to the roughly 22 junior lithium miners with properties suitable for private lithium mining in Chile. These crooks/scammers use the false narrative that lithium is a key component in building nuclear warheads and must be highly controlled (by the party in office at the time eg leftist/communist) as a ludicrous "Strategic Mineral" by the antiquated Pinochet-era created "tit-on-a-bull" CChEN which has been co-opted to do their (leftists/commies) bidding and strangle any new development until they (leftists/commies) can one day get their thieving palms "super greased" with greasy cash first and then regularly monthly or quarterly (ref SQM/Albemarle) for at least the next 3 years (or 7 years if the leftists/commies can get reelected in 2026).
The Doctor
China_freaking over_Amb Juan_Gabriel Valdés_Mar28 lithium_comments
that elevated USA to first-class Lithium "Strategic Partner" with Chile over China's now downgraded position to simply second-class lithium ho-hum "trading partner" as we outlined to you in our earlier post two days ago https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=171579330
China is so freaked-out that they are going to be excluded/excised from the Chilean lithium cow that President Xi Jinping sent his Ambassador for Chile Niu Qingbao to meet personally with Ambassador Juan Gabriel Valdés to get this "situation" straightened-out and have China reclassified as a top-dog "Strategic Partner on Lithium" with Chile https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/embajador-chino-las-palabras-del-embajador-juan-gabriel-valdes-no-concuerdan-con-las-politicas-y-practicas-del-gobierno-de-chile-me-sorprendieron-mucho/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Dear President Xi Jinping, well let's face the obvious facts here. You Chinese have been greedily sucking all the lithium milk from the cow's udder for real cheap-cheap the last 7 years and it is now time to pay the big money for the actual cow... Or, new "Strategic Partner" Uncle Sam is going to take over sucking the lithium milk and buying the cow plus the whole farm for the big-big bucks. And Uncle Sam will probably take all of it in one fell-swoop leaving you sucking just the shriveled-up withered nearly empty hind udder. Remember that great American saying, "money talks, BS walks"? Well, it now looks like you're going to be walking real soon.
The Doctor
Lithium-mining-hating coalition_is losing_grip/power in this_government
under Boric as minority party Approve Dignity becomes less and less a key player in influencing overall government positions
The end of the revolution: The fissure in Approve Dignity. By Kenneth Bunker
https://www-ex--ante-cl.translate.goog/el-fin-de-la-revolucion-la-fisura-en-apruebo-dignidad-por-kenneth-bunker/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The Doctor
NLP_for March_31 is_sadly... mañana_mañana
https://www-mineria--pa-com.translate.goog/noticias/chile-presentara-la-politica-nacional-del-litio-en-los-proximos-dias/?_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=nui Lithium held by privateers is like the luscious tasty juicy hamburger the deadbeat ChileCodelco (aka Wimpy) would love to have a 51% plus share of the juicy hamburger and begin eating it whole right away today with a flimsy promise to pay for the hamburger on Tuesday after having not invested one single Chilean red peso in the hamburger over the last 20 years. So how might that hamburger payment from Wimpy ChileCodelco actually play out for us lithium miners? I wonder?
In Argentina the Popeye "debt collector" character over Wimpy is the IMF (International Monetary Fund).
I am almost certain that in the following Wimpy ChileCodelco video scenario the Popeye '"debt collector" character would also be the IMF.
Wimpy ChileCodelco plays for the hamburger.
Former SQM VP Daniel Jimenez told Anti-Mining Minister Marcela Hernando point blank that the execution of any state-run company like NLC will be "very slow" (ie beaner slowness) when what is required is a sense of urgency.
In the meeting with Anti-Mining Marcela the current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alberto van Klaveren, announced that there could be "cooperation" between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile for the exchange of information on the extraction of the resource, although he rejected the possibility of forming a productive alliance (reference a LPEC, Lithium-type OPEC) between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.
The Doctor