{"id":49149,"date":"2023-08-16T10:58:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/news\/why-lithium-stocks-are-falling\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T10:58:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T14:58:30","slug":"why-lithium-stocks-are-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/?p=49149","title":{"rendered":"Why Lithium Stocks Are Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-test-id=\"content-container\">\n<p><figure class=\"getty-figure\" data-type=\"getty-image\"><picture>  <\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"item-caption\">Electric vehicle battery cells assembled by robotic arms<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>It has been a difficult year for lithium producers. Heck, it has been a difficult six months, with the past month tumbling most noticeably.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote on a<span class=\"paywall-full-content invisible\"> very different forum not long ago, in a geopolitical rather than investing, publication:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible\"><strong>\u201cPoliticians can make or repeal any kind of law but one: the law of supply and demand.\u201d \u2013 JLS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible\">New entrants and old have been plunging headlong into developing more sources of lithium around the world. At the same time, this new supply is coming online: (1) Chinese auto sales have declined since the government removed the juiciest of subsidies; and (2) EV sales in Europe and the U.S. have been held back because of semiconductor shortages. (On a larger level, China ended almost all subsidies and tax breaks for green energy, which triggered an across-the-board selloff in<span class=\"paywall-full-content no-summary-bullets invisible\"> many other related industries, as well.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">More supply + less demand = falling prices for lithium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">As of today, here is the decline in lithium, with this month being either the beginning of the end for lithium or somewhere close to the panic point from which it is more likely to recover:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">\n<figure class=\"regular-img-figure paywall-full-content invisible\" contenteditable=\"false\"><picture> <span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/142982-16921450945825207.png\" alt=\"Chart\" contenteditable=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/span> <\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"item-caption\"><span>Trading Economics<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">It isn\u2019t just lithium prices, though lithium is the poster child for the Battery Revolution. Any minor glitch in electric vehicle (&#8220;EV&#8221;) sales tends to create panic in the streets. For instance, EV charging equipment provider Beam Global (BEEM) reported better-than-expected Q2 results recently. Sales came in at $17.8 million, up about 380% year-over-year. BEEM is still a micro-cap company, but it seems to be on the right track. Yet the stock opened the next day at $10.20 and closed at $9.05.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">General Motors (GM) sales of EVs fell in the second quarter compared to the first quarter. The first quarter marked the end of certain U.S. subsidies. Ford (F) recently reduced some of its growth expectations for EVs. This is the type of news that makes skittish people think, \u201cThe sky is falling! The sky is falling!\u201d No, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">One 12-week period is not indicative of future sales. And this interruption in demand does not mean there is likely to be any pause in seeking new sources of lithium. There will be new technologies that make it more efficient, however.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\"><strong>The First Step in Making Li-Ion Batteries<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">The first step in making Li-Ion batteries is getting the lithium. Lithium is extracted from three different venues: brines, pegmatites, and sedimentary rocks. How the lithium is extracted means very different project requirements, extraction methods, governmental regulation, environmental considerations, and processing times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Historically, lithium extraction from brine sources has been more economical than production from pegmatite or sedimentary sources. Living in Nevada, I am geographically close to the action in that Tesla\u2019s (TSLA) gigafactory is just down the road from me, and Albemarle\u2019s (ALB) Silver Peak mine (the only producing lithium brine operation in the U.S.) is only a few hours away. Often, our local news will pick up a story well before the rest of the nation sees it. Such was the case for my earliest purchases of Lithium Americas (LAC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">We do not know how much more lithium may be found in the USA \u2013 once upon a time, America produced the most of any nation. Those days are long gone, however. Now, most of the brine-evaporation sources of lithium are in different desert areas with dependable solar evaporation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">\n<figure class=\"regular-img-figure a-c paywall-full-content invisible\" contenteditable=\"false\"><picture> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/142982-16921450945109048.jpg\" alt=\"photo lithium brine\" contenteditable=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\"> <\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"item-caption\">Lithium brine extraction in Nevada <span>(Albemarle Corp.\/Ken Childress Photography)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\"><strong>Brine evaporation deposits<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">These basins are called salt lakes, salt flats, or salars. Lithium \u201cbrine\u201d deposits represent about two-thirds of worldwide lithium resources. The best known are found in the salt flats of Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Even though most of these reserve deposits are found in The Lithium Triangle of these three nations, Australia is the world\u2019s largest lithium producer in total output, with much of it coming from the Greenbushes hard-rock lithium operation. More on that later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Among many other lithium producers, I own shares of Livent (LTHM), which produces lithium carbonate from a world-class lithium brine deposit in Argentina: the Salar del Hombre Muerto. Allkem (OTCPK:OROCF), an Australian lithium producer, is ramping up production at a contiguous site. These two companies are currently jumping through various regulatory hoops to be able to merge their assets, making it an even bigger factor in brine-evaporation lithium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">(Bolivia is likely to have the globe\u2019s biggest deposit of lithium, the Salar de Uyuni, which might contain as much as between 50 to 70 percent of \u201cknown\u201d world reserves. But the statist government of Bolivia, for now anyway, insists on government control of all activity \u2013 and the Bolivian deposits are more costly to refine and have a much lower evaporation rate, anyway.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Geothermal lithium brine deposits have been much in the news lately. Lithium has been found in Chile, New Zealand, and Iceland as super-hot saline is spewed from geothermal sites. In this stew are also found good quantities of potassium, boron, lithium, and other elements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">I have a personal connection here, as well, albeit from a more distant time. Back in the mists of antiquity, I was working my way through UCLA with a dozen or so different jobs. One of these was selling lots on the shores of California\u2019s Salton Sea. It never became the next Palm Springs (just up the road a piece), but I thought it had potential, so I scraped up the then-massive chunk of money &#8212; $1,000 &#8212; to buy a 2.5-acre lot there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">I would have done better placing my money in a 2% savings account and compounding it over the intervening period, but at least it has kept me interested in the goings-on down there. There is already significant work being done. The Hell\u2019s Kitchen lithium and power project looks to have an estimated 30-year life with a total lithium resource capacity of 300,000 metric tons &#8212; MT &#8212; per year of lithium carbonate equivalent. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Lithium brine deposits can also be found in some deep oil reservoirs in North Dakota, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and East Texas. In fact, Standard Lithium (SLI) claims to hold a property (and a unique process) on the U.S. gulf coast containing more than 4 million MT of lithium carbonate equivalent resources.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">I find this interesting because the oil &amp; gas drillers have significant seismic and 4D technologies already in place, &#8212; as well as deep pockets. Is it possible we will one day get our lithium from these energy companies, as well?<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\"><strong>Pegmatite lithium deposits<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Pegmatite is a coarse-grained igneous rock that is formed from crystallized magma. Pegmatite lithium deposits (also known as \u201chard-rock\u201d lithium deposits,) often contain extractable amounts of not just lithium, but also tin, tantalum, and niobium. We most often find the most lithium where mineral spodumene dominates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Australia produces the most lithium from pegmatite deposits of any country. Australian lithium production is on fire, with numerous global mining companies elbowing for position. Canada, the US, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and even nations we do not think of as producing lithium, like Finland and Ireland, hold financially viable pegmatite lithium deposits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Hard-rock ore that contains lithium is extracted at open-pit or underground mines using conventional mining techniques. The ore is then processed and concentrated in a number of different ways to produce lithium and its compounds. This kind of mining is more expensive than using evaporative techniques like brine deposits. The good news is that hard-rock lithium deposits have higher lithium concentrations than brines, making them still economically viable. Also, producing tin, tantalum, niobium, and more can help offset costs.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\"><strong>Sedimentary lithium deposits<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Sedimentary deposits account for a growing piece of the lithium pie. These are found in clay deposits and lacustrine evaporites. (\u201cLacustrine\u201d just means that these are sedimentary rock formations that formed at the bottom of ancient lakes.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">In clay deposits, lithium is typically found in hectorite, which is rich in lithium, but also in magnesium. (The name hectorite comes from a deposit first discovered in Hector, California.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Many companies are in the research and development phase for their clay deposits, but no companies currently produce meaningful lithium from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">The most commonly known form of lithium-containing lacustrine deposit is found in the Jadar Valley in Serbia. This deposit is owned by another company in my portfolio, one which is not often thought of as a lithium producer: Rio Tinto (RIO). RIO says it believes this deposit likely contains more than 200 million MT of lithium, which would make it one of the largest lithium deposits anywhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">In January 2022, after Anglo-Australian RIO had committed to pay more than $2 billion to execute the project, Serbia revoked its license. The ostensible reason was public protest over environmental concerns. It probably did not help matters that Australia deported Serbia\u2019s favorite son and tennis star Novak Djokovic for failing to comply with Australia\u2019s Covid-19 protocols. We shall see if one day royalties to Serbia become more important than other issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Another example of sedimentary deposits is, yes, yet another of my \u201cfuture energy\u201d holdings, Lithium Americas. I have written early and often about the trials and tribulations of trying to extract lithium in this litigious United States of America. I first followed LAC as I read reports of the numerous lawsuits to protect \u201cthe environment\u201d in my local newspapers. (The Lithium Americas site, Thacker Pass, is a couple of hours northeast of Reno, my nearest airport gateway.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">I find it curious that the voices most demeaning of nature\u2019s batteries (fossil fuels) who demand that we replace these forms of energy immediately with \u201cgreen\u201d sources are also the loudest in protesting our best opportunity to do so. LAC was sued in court by various First Nation tribes, by farmers and ranchers, and by all manner of organizers and followers from outside the area. These lawsuits went on for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">If we want green energy, we must understand that lithium does not grow on trees, that the sun does not shine 24\/7, and that wind turbines are composed of all sorts of metals and materials that must be dug from the ground then, at the end of their useful life, disposed of by returning much of the dangerous materials with which they are built into the earth and atmosphere. TINSTAAFL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">\u201cPossibly\u201d bringing closure to this farce is the decision just this week between LAC, General Motors, which has agreed to off-take some $600 million of LAC production, Bechtel Construction, and North America\u2019s Building Trades Unions for the Thacker Pass project, which will now hopefully tap into the largest deposit of lithium in North America.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\"><strong>Where Do Lithium Prices Go From Here?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">If you ask me what lithium prices, and thus lithium companies, will do this week or this month, I haven\u2019t a clue. Since China removed incentives to buy electric, EV sales there are down. That says there is less demand, so prices may stay depressed. On the other hand, if governments or regulators or protesters dead set against disturbing Mother Earth &#8212; from Serbia to Bolivia to the USA \u2013 prevent adequate supply, while demand increases, then the shares of lithium producers will rise again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">I cannot say that a rebound will be immediate. I do believe the tale of Lithium Americas, having exhausted all opposition all the way to the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit Court \u2013 yes, the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Circuit! \u2013 may create enough precedent that other firms might not face the same uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">I don\u2019t know exactly when the supply\/demand balance will create the momentum to resurrect these companies\u2019 share prices. But I am 100% certain that the balance will shift. When it does, earnings will increase or explode. When that happens the same people now selling \u201cbecause they are going down\u201d will be anxious to buy \u201cbecause they are going up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">I prefer to eliminate those middle steps. I own and am continuing to add to my holdings in the very best lithium producers. If you want some history, there are scores of articles written on SA about these firms. You will also find a half dozen or so that I have written, detailing in greater depth my belief in every one of these. [If you are unable to view one you want to see because they are older and no longer available without a subscription, I extend a free trial for 2 weeks to The Investor\u2019s Edge<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. Either read whatever you like, and be sure to cancel during those two weeks, or stay as a subscriber. I stay well-read on this industry for my subscribers.]\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Among the lithium producers I own and am currently adding to today are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Albemarle<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Sociedad Qu\u00edmica y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Livent Corp. (LTHM)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Lithium Americas<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">(And the more speculative) Sigma Lithium Corporation (SGML)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Do your due diligence &#8212; and good investing!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">\n<figure class=\"regular-img-figure a-l paywall-full-content invisible\" contenteditable=\"false\"><picture> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifintechworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/142982-1692145094371596.png\" alt=\"Signature\" contenteditable=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\"> <\/picture><figcaption>\n<p class=\"item-caption\"><span>Analyst<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall-full-content invisible no-summary-bullets\">Editor&#8217;s Note: This article discusses one or more securities that do not trade on a major U.S. exchange. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/4628927-why-lithium-stocks-are-falling?source=feed_all_articles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric vehicle battery cells assembled by robotic arms It has been a difficult year for lithium producers. Heck, it has been a difficult six months, with the past month tumbling most noticeably. Why? 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