Topic: Mining Stocks

Hello: Would you please share your thoughts about Nemaska Lithium, which has been very active these past few weeks. Thank you in advance.

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A: Nemaska Lithium, $1.45, symbol NMX on the Toronto Venture exchange, (Shares outstanding: 218.1 million; Market cap: 338.2 million; www.nemaskalithium.com), aims to start up its Whabouchi lithium project, in Quebec. Lithium is used in household batteries, glass and ceramics, lubricants, refrigeration, pharmaceuticals, polymers and aluminum production. But the metal mostly goes into lithium-ion and lithium-metal batteries for electric and hybrid-electric cars. The Whabouchi mine site holds a deposit of spodumene, which is a hard rock that was once the most important lithium source. But most of today’s lithium comes from brine solutions drawn from salt lakes, such as the Chabyer in Tibet and the Salar de Atacama in Chile. This is cheaper than producing lithium from spodumene, and the recovered metal is suitable for most uses. However, when manufacturers need the purest lithium, they prefer spodumene because the final product has fewer contaminants. Nemaska plans to ship ore from the mine to a processing facility it aims to build in Shawinigan, Quebec. This plant…