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💡 How a shake-up could unlock $40b for Rio Tinto investors Well done on this effort Ray David, Joseph Koh and David Meehan. 📈 And thank you to the The Australian Financial Review for a great, well written article. Please read more below, and follow the link to the full article. "BHP cleaned up its outdated corporate structure and can now do things like bid for Anglo American. There is pressure building on Rio Tinto to consider doing the same. There’s an investor push building at Rio Tinto; you can feel it. The miner makes most of its earnings in Australia’s Pilbara. It has made significant steps to improve relationships with government, traditional owners, employees and even shareholders since the Juukan Gorge and workplace culture undoings. But there’s a lot more work to be done." Follow the link below 👇 👇 👇 https://lnkd.in/gYQGH5Xa #Blackwattle #Quality #Investing

March 2024 Quarterly Report & Appendix 5B Highlights ▶ Due diligence site visit to Fiji and Horn Island projects with Gage Capital ▶ Mr Michele Alessandro Bina, an advisor to Gage Capital, joined the board ▶ Gage subscribed for a further 450m ordinary shares at $0.008 to raise a further ~$3.64m (placement subject to approval by shareholders) ▶ If approved, transaction will see Gage move to 51% holding in Alice Queen ▶ Immediate exploration focus is primarily gold focused in Fiji at Sabeto and Viani Read the full quarterly report: https://lnkd.in/gfbVYdFB #AQX #gold #exploration

Welcoming our new CEO & Director Mr. R. Nicholas Horsley! Mr. Horsley has over 19 years of public markets experience focused on finance, investor relations, marketing, management, and merger and acquisitions. Mr. Horsley has served as a director and a consultant to several public and private companies and has experience in a variety of industries, including mineral exploration, telecom, consumer packaged goods, e-sports and technology. Mr. Horsley will also fill the vacant secretary and chief financial officer position on an interim basis. American Salars’ president and CEO, Mr. Horsley, states: “I am excited to join this seasoned team and help to build a premier lithium company. We are long-term believers in an increasing lithium carbonate price and that lithium brines are the quickest and most economic path to a production scenario. The amount of lithium M&A in the last 48 months exceeds $20-billion with over $3-billion in M&A and strategic funding already in 2024. I am excited to expand on the work done at the Candela II lithium project with its maiden inferred resource estimate of 457,000 tonnes LCE and test the additional zone at the 400-metre level, identified by the projects MT survey and consistent with our neighbour Gangfeng’s resource.” Learn about our growing 457,000 tonne inf lithium resource in Argentina at AmericanSalars.com* $USLI.c 🇨🇦 $ASALF 🇺🇸 $Z3P 🇩🇪 #LithiumInvesting #BatteryTechStocks #GreenEnergyInvestment #EVStocks #LithiumMarket #RenewableEnergyStocks #CleanTechInvesting #investing #stocks #smallcaps #fyp #foryoupage

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Company management and Boards are too far removed from the processes and decisions behind company supply chains and distanced from potential abuses. We believe investors can play a key role in increasing the attention dedicated to supply chain issues by company CEOs. Read about our involvement in the RMI Investor Network: https://bit.ly/4dSZAW5

It’s been a brutal few weeks for public markets M&A in Europe. BHP’s GBP 38.6bn (USD 49bn) equity value pursuit of Anglo American and a possible offer for Naturgy, worth EUR 24bn (USD 26bn) before talks broke down, both ended without agreement. Anglo American’s size and corporate structure, including Johannesburg-listed subsidiaries Anglo American Platinum and Kumba Iron Ore, proved too large and complex for BHP to unpick. Europe’s failed deals threaten to upend a strong start to the year for M&A, which featured a host of early-stage bids for large, listed companies. They also come at a time when capital markets have been roiled by political upheaval at home and abroad. More here: https://lnkd.in/dThzU7jZ

Awalé Resources Ltd (TSX-V:ARIC) CEO Andrew Chubb speaks to Thomas Warner from Proactive after the junior exploration company closed a non-brokered private placement with Newmont Ventures Limited, a subsidiary of Newmont Corporation, raising gross proceeds of C$957,530.89. The funds will be allocated for greenfield exploration on the Odienné project permits and enhances Newmont's stake in the company to 15%. Originally holding 10% of Awalé through a joint venture, Newmont's investment dipped but was restored and increased at a premium price. This financial boost enables Awalé to accelerate exploration on their wholly-owned permits, which encircle the two properties jointly ventured with Newmont. #TSXV #ARIC Watch at #Proactive #ProactiveInvestors https://lnkd.in/eR7Km4XT

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Our 2023 update to our annual Corporate Responsibility Report is here: https://lnkd.in/gz7hRyuv HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2023: • Safety Excellence – Achieved the best safety record in the history of our Partnership. Congratulations to our employees for their unwavering commitment to achieving operational excellence day in and day out. • Financial Highs – Achieved partnership record $13.7 billion of adjusted EBITDA, up 5% over 2022.* Also upgraded by Fitch to a BBB credit rating. • Record Volumes – Moved record volumes across all business segments. Also exported record NGLs from our Nederland and Marcus Hook Terminals. • Growth – Acquired Crestwood Equity Partners and Lotus Midstream Operations. The acquisitions, totaling $8.6 billion, enhanced our system capabilities and contributed to moving record volumes. Also invested $1.6 billion in organic growth projects, including an eighth fractionator at Mont Belvieu NGL Complex and a new processing plant in the Permian Basin. Our condensed report focuses only on updated metrics, new initiatives, and achievements specific to 2023. If there was no change to the information provided in 2022, you will not find any mention of it in this report. Our 2022 Corporate Responsibility Report can be found on our website. A full report will be issued again in 2024.

Belltree Corporate’s clients have been busy again over the past week… 🔔 Alicanto Minerals Ltd (ASX: AQI) announced a restructure to its board and management to reflect its new expanded growth strategy, including the appointment of Ray Shorrocks as Interim Executive Chair, and Duncan Grieve and Russell Curtin as Non-Executive Directors. Alicanto will review potential advanced project acquisitions, drawing on the experience of consultants Steve Parsons and Michael Naylor. 🔔 Alicanto Minerals Ltd (ASX: AQI) is also undertaking a 1:5 non-renounceable rights issue to raise up to A$1.6 million at 1.3c per share, with a further $123,500 to be raised from a share placement to directors at the same price (subject to shareholder approval). Proceeds are to be applied towards progressing exploration at the company’s existing Sala and Falun projects in Sweden, and project generation. 🔔 Bellavista Resources announced it has received firm commitments for an unbrokered A$1.2 capital raise this morning at 15c per share to accelerate due diligence on several advanced projects, as well as to secure strategic funding options for its Brumby Project in Western Australia, and regional exploration. 🔔 Energy Transition Minerals has appointed highly-experienced corporate and resource sector executive Simon Kidston as Independent Non-Executive Chair, with Sara Kelly moving to Executive Director - Legal and Commercial, with a focus on managing the company’s arbitration and litigation strategy for its Kvanefjeld Rare Earths Project in Greenland. 🔔 Energy Transition Minerals also advised that it has been awarded three additional exploration permits in the area surrounding the company’s Villasrubias Lithium-Tantalum Project, significantly expanding its exploration footprint in central-western Spain. 🔔 FireFly Metals released further high-grade copper and gold drilling results from its Green Bay Copper-Gold Project in Newfoundland, Canada. The latest assays establish continuous mineralisation for 460m outside the existing NI43-101 Mineral Resource. 🔔 Midas Minerals and Cygnus Metals each advised that BDO Audit Pty Ltd has been appointed as auditor, replacing EY. Not to mention all the other “boring” things that Company Secretaries and Financial Management do to keep the lights on… preparing board papers and circular resolutions, dealing with changes in equity securities, ASIC forms, ESS reporting, managing confidentiality agreements etc etc #BelltreeCorporate #capitalraisings #rightsissue #shareplacement #boardrestructure #compliancereviews #explorationresults #projectreviews #peggingtenements #dayinthelife #companysecretary #boardnotbored

What do investors like most about $JZR? 1) Our experienced management 2) We are advancing towards near-term cash flow 3) Fully permitted exploration/exploitation license 4) Vertically integrated business 5) Proximity to infrastructure 6) #Exploration upside opportunity