Lithium Americas Corp. is pleased to announce a definitive agreement with Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. to enter into a 50/50 joint venture on the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project in Jujuy. The Joint Venture will go into effect following a capital contribution of US$25 million by SQM in exchange for a 50% ownership stake in Minera [...]
Western Lithium USA and Lithium Americas are pleased to announce that they have completed the plan of arrangement, pursuant to which Western Lithium acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Lithium Americas in exchange for 0.789 common shares of Western Lithium for each Lithium Americas Share held. Pursuant to the Arrangement and [...]
Western Lithium USA and Lithium Americas are pleased to announce that each company held a special meeting of its shareholders earlier today, and that the previously announced plan of arrangement involving Western Lithium and Lithium Americas was approved by the shareholders of each of Western Lithium and Lithium Americas. 98.25% of the shares [...]
Western Lithium and Lithium Americas would like to remind the shareholders of Western Lithium to vote FOR the ordinary resolution approving the share issuance proposal and remind the shareholders of Lithium Americas to vote FOR the special resolution to approve the plan of arrangement and vote FOR the ordinary resolution approving the issuance of [...]
Lithium Americas is pleased to announce that it has executed a Heads of Agreement with POSCO regarding the commercialization of the Company's Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project in Jujuy Province, Argentina. As previously reported, POSCO and LAC's decision to commercialize the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project (the third largest known lithium brine [...]
Western Lithium USA and Lithium Americas are pleased to announce that Glass, Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services, two leading independent proxy advisory firms which provide voting recommendations to institutional investors, have each recommended that shareholders of Western Lithium vote FOR the ordinary resolution approving the share [...]
Lithium Americas is pleased to announce that on July 30, 2015, it obtained an interim order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approving the mailing of meeting materials and the holding of a special meeting of Lithium Americas' shareholders to consider and approve the proposed plan of arrangement under which, among other things, Western[...]
Lithium Americas today announced that, at POSCO's request, it has agreed to extend until September 4, 2015, the Co-operation Agreement between POSCO, LAC, and LAC's Argentinian subsidiary, Minera Exar. The Co-operation Agreement was originally executed in January, 2014, with an eighteen month term. In addition to the successful operation of the [...]
Western Lithium USA and Lithium Americas are pleased to announce that they have entered into an arrangement agreement to combine their respective companies. The transaction is structured as a statutory plan of arrangement under which Western Lithium will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Lithium Americas in an all-stock transaction that [...]
Lithium Americas announces that at today's annual meeting of shareholders each of the nine nominees named in the Management Information Circular dated May 21, 2015, being Gary Cohn, Gerry Feldman, W. Thomas Hodgson, John Kanellitsas, Constantine Karayannopoulos, Myron Manternach, Sergio Marchi, Franco Mignacco and George Pirie, were elected as [...]
Lithium Americas is pleased to announce that it is now in discussions with POSCO regarding the proposed commercialization of the Company's Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project in Jujuy Province, Argentina. The two parties expect to execute a Heads of Agreement shortly that will define the basic conditions governing a new Joint Venture Company. While the [...]
Lithium Americas is pleased to announce that POSCO's innovative high efficiency lithium extraction demonstration plant operating at LAC's Cauchari salar in Jujuy Province, has produced in excess of six tonnes of lithium compound since the formal inauguration of the Demo Plant on December 22, 2014. These initial six tonnes of lithium compound will [...]