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https://www.clydeco.com/insight/article/oman-adopts-new-mining-law

The new Omani mining law adopted 14/03/2019 states license holders will need to pay 'a minimum of 5% of the annual output of their mining activities in royalties, as opposed to a maximum of 10% under the old law'. So it is not a simple halving exactly, it is a MINIMUM of 5%, so I guess at least in theory it could still be 10% - not clear how it is worked out.

Not particularly lithium related, but interesting:
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2019-bmw-electric-car-german-engines/?srnd=premium-europe

The nightingale has flown south for the spring. MI6

No, but it's a useful post nevertheless .

That's the spirit ! Knew you'd come good in the end !

If the techies can get lithium batteries to hold a 500+ mile charge that will be a huge boost for the take-up of EVs.

Grimweasel - the new battery your article refers to still uses lithium. So your point is ?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/battery-reality-there-s-nothing-better-than-lithium-ion-coming-soon
Disappointing for your boys and girls at UCL

Which one ? We have both Moz and Portugal FS due !

2 tweets from SAV this morning:
http://www.mining.com/europe-aims-take-place-global-ev-battery-production-stage/
and the other is about SAV attending a Stuttgart investment conference tomorrow.

Depressing thing is we are not even attending the Oman conference in two weeks, so looks as though we have given up. Alara are attending.

Yes I'm a bit puzzled by that CM.
Hope we will not have a Portuguese government deciding to allocate licences on basis of successful applications for licences elsewhere in the world. We would be toast.

So what has gone wrong ? Why the secrecy ?

Of course you're still waiting. And waiting. Never is a very long time.

So in short, no, we do not yet have a licence for this area. Well that's fine, DA has demonstrated with the two other projects how good he is in obtaining mining licences.

Does our existing licence cover Aldeia ?

Base Resources have today published their Madagascan mineral sands project PFS after 10 months. We are still waiting for ours after 20 months. When our PFS start was announced in RNS of August 2017 it was stated 'we're pleased that the first stage of the Mutamba PFS has been contracted to TZMI.  Having completed the Scoping Study for us, TZMI is well placed to undertake the work and deliver a quick outcome'.  Quick outcome ? In an RNS in September 2018 it was stated 'the scoping phase of the Pre-Feasibility Study for the Mutamba project is progressing well with anticipated completion in Q1 2019' - does anyone know how many 'phases' the PFS has ?

https://www.clydeco.com/insight/article/oman-adopts-new-mining-law Will it make a difference to us ? Probably not.

Alara has two speakers listed. We don't appear to be going. We appear to have given up.