Each one in plain English, with the numbers worked through for a shareholder.
17 Dec 2021capital raising announcement▲ GoodMajor
BlackRock put in a further C$64.2 million, taking the placement to C$136.7 million and 11,634,137 shares - the second upsizing in a week, and the arrival of a large institutional holder.
What it means for a shareholder
11.6m new shares at about C$11.75 to raise about C$137m. Shares on issue before the raise aren't in the record, so the dilution can't be worked out.
Began foundation and earthworks with 180 workers on site and placed deposits on 38 long-lead items, saying it was on track to produce in the fourth quarter of 2022 and had the equity to meet the conditions of its proposed construction debt facility.
Mobilised workers and equipment to site, completed front-end engineering design and filed a preliminary base shelf prospectus in Canada and the United States. Construction of the Grota do Cirilo plant begins here.
Sigma's co-chief executive told a Brazilian congressional commission that Brazil could become a large exporter of sustainable lithium, framing the project as development for the Jequitinhonha valley, one of the country's poorest regions.
Co-chief executive Ana Cabral-Gardner spoke on a Financial Times commodities panel about technology making lithium cheaper and cleaner. No company development.
Signed a binding six-year offtake term sheet with LG Energy Solution: 60,000 tonnes a year of concentrate on a take-or-pay basis in Phase 1, rising to 100,000 tonnes in Phase 2, priced off lithium hydroxide. The term sheet still had to be turned into definitive agreements, and in March 2024 LG Energy Solution took Sigma to arbitration over it.