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Could shrewd acquisition of Latin Resources be a winning counter-cyclical play?
Geologists on site inspecting drill core at the massive Salinas Lithium project in Minas Gerais, Brazil Credit: File Top-gun hard rock...

Sheena Francis
Mar 6, 2025


Lithium top gun makes $560m takeover bid for Latin Resources
Latin Resources (ASX: LRS) has received a “friendly” $560 million all-scrip bid from top-gun hard rock lithium producer, Pilbara...

Sheena Francis
Aug 15, 2024


Lithium oxide hits to boost Brazilian resource for Latin Resources
Latin Resources (ASX: LRS) has revealed a new string of thick, high-grade lithium oxide hits in a recently-discovered core of its...

Sheena Francis
Jul 26, 2024


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Azi Capuno
Jun 3, 2024


Latin Resources confirms “global-scale” lithium at Brazilian behemoth
Latin Resources’ Salinas lithium project in Brazil has thrown up even more of the battery metal. Credit: File. Latin Resources (ASX: LRS) says a new resource upgrade at its already hulking Salinas lithium project in Brazil, places it among the global giants as the company takes aim at producing a definitive feasibility study (DFS) later this year. The company’s latest figures released today show that Salinas now boasts 77.7 million tonnes grading 1.24 per lithium oxide for a

Doug Bright
May 30, 2024


Latin Resources homes in on Brazilian lithium resource upgrade
Latin Resources has hit spodumene-bearing pegmatites with its drill campaign at its Colina deposit in Brazil. Latin Resources (ASX: LRS) is set to deliver a mineral resource upgrade for its Colina lithium deposit in Brazil as soon as this month after wrapping up a major resource definition drill campaign at the operation. Colina forms part of the company’s Salinas lithium project in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais and the deposit currently holds an impressive resource of
Michael Philipps
May 13, 2024


Latin Resources on track after riding bumpy road to Brazilian lithium
Latin Resources managing director Chris Gale has steered the company admirably through challenging times. Credit: File After the global COVID pandemic forced Latin Resources (ASX: LRS) to shut down its exploratory work in the face of an uncertain future, a new business gong for boss Chris Gale has signalled a powerful company turnaround. Gale’s ability to guide the company through the adversity and into its huge Salinas lithium project in Brazil recently earned him a prestigi

Craig Nolan
May 1, 2024


Latin Resources nails further high-grade Brazilian lithium hits
Drill chips from Latin Resources Salinas lithium project in Brazil. Credit: File Latin Resources (ASX: LRS) has nailed a string of high-grade lithium hits at its Salinas project’s Colina deposit in Brazil, with multiple impressive intersections more than 20m thick grading higher than 1.4 per cent lithium oxide. The diamond drill results were recorded in the central zone of the deposit and the company says it will use the stellar results to build on its existing Colina mineral

Craig Nolan
Mar 27, 2024


Ex-Greenbushes boss joins Latin Resources lithium production push
Latin Resources has named Peter Oliver as its executive director and development committee chairman as it progresses its Salinas lithium project in Brazil. Credit: File Latin Resources named former Greenbushes lithium guru Peter Oliver as its new executive director and development committee chairman as the company continues to drive its Salinas project in Brazil towards production. Immediately stepping into the dual positions, Oliver has described the Salinas project as “exce
Michael Philipps
Feb 14, 2024


Latin Resources reveals lithium hit 1.5km from main Brazilian deposit
Latin Resources massive spodumene pegmatite outcrop Credit: File Latin Resources says its latest core assays, including a 9.25m intercept at a grade of 1.21 per cent lithium oxide from 395.29m, confirm the large-scale potential of its Salinas lithium project in Brazil. In an ASX release today, the company says the same hole also yielded a separate 16.14m intercept running a grade of 1.29 per cent lithium oxide from 425m including 7.14m at 1.63 per cent from 434m. Cumulative s

Doug Bright
Jan 31, 2024


Latin Resources stamps global presence with Brazilian lithium deposit
Latin Resources has recorded significant results from drilling at its Salinas lithium project in Brazil. Credit: File Latin Resources has taken a significant step into the global realm of lithium exploration by pumping up the resource at its still-growing Salinas project in Brazil to 70.3 million tonnes going 1.27 per cent lithium oxide. The enhanced figure includes a 41 per cent increase to its Colina deposit resource, which now sits at more than 63 million tonnes grading 1.
Michael Philipps
Dec 6, 2023


Latin Resources hits more Brazilian lithium as resource upgrade looms
Latin Resources has returned positive lithium results from its latest assays at its Salinas project in Brazil. Credit: File Latin Resources has recorded a swag of impressive new results from expansion drilling at the Colina deposit that forms part of its Salinas lithium project in Brazil, with a resource upgrade set for next month. The company’s latest results show a peak intercept at Colina of 13.56m reading 2.03 per cent lithium oxide from just 98.44m, with a maximum width
Michael Philipps
Nov 30, 2023


Latin Resources set to add third deposit to Brazilian lithium project
Latin Resources has been buoyed by visual results from drilling at its new Planalto prospect. Credit: File Latin Resources says it has confirmed a third major spodumene discovery, about 1.8km south-west of its Colina deposit in Brazil, in visual results from the latest drill program at its Salinas lithium project. Earlier this year, the company revealed a massive 241 per cent increase to the Colina mineral resource to 45.2 million tonnes at 1.34 per cent lithium oxide, repres
Michael Philipps
Nov 22, 2023


Latin Resources subsidiary picks up SA halloysite-kaolin project
Latin Resources will continue its long-time hunt for kaolin and halloysite through its subsidiary, ESG Minerals. Credit: File. ESG Minerals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Latin Resources, has signed a binding agreement to pay $500,000 to Oar Resources for the 80-square-kilometre Gibraltar halloysite-kaolin project in South Australia. Air-core (AC) drilling by Oar in 2021 identified areas of high-grade halloysite at Gibraltar. Along with ore from Latin’s Cloud Nine deposit in W

Andrew Duffy
Nov 22, 2023


Big players hit Latin Resources up for lithium offtake
Latin Resources managing director Chris Gale. Credit: File Latin Resources has appointed Macquarie Capital to formally assess a spate of offtake enquiries from big players looking to secure lithium from its Salinas project in Brazil. The company says it has received interest from battery makers, original equipment manufacturers and trading companies looking to pick up a supply of lithium from Latin’s project that shows a crazy high NPV of A$3.6b and an after-tax IRR of 132 pe

Lisa Wells
Oct 31, 2023


Latin Resources secures $35m backing for Brazilian lithium play
Latin Resources has raised $35 million from a recent capital raising. Credit: File ASX-listed Latin Resources has received a firm commitment from a cluster of institutional and sophisticated investors to raise $35 million to expand the drilling program at its Salinas lithium project in Brazil throughout 2024. The company says the funds will be used to accelerate its exploration at Salinas, in addition to funding geotechnical and hydrogeology testwork to support a definitive f

Helen Barling
Oct 23, 2023


Latin drilling blitz uncovers more Brazilian lithium
Latin Resources working its Salinas lithium project in Brazil. Credit: File A Latin Resources drilling blitz with 10 rigs working overtime at its Salinas lithium project has reeled in a swag of significant hits from a trio of targets in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region. The company plunged a further 10 diamond drillholes for almost 3900m into the Colina south-west (Colina SW) target. Headline hits include 14.7m averaging 1.48 per cent lithium oxide from 157.6m, 13.8m at 1.69 per

Helen Barling
Oct 18, 2023


Latin Resources to pull AU$600m a year from Brazilian lithium play
Latin Resources Brazil exploration manager Pedro Fonseca, centre, discovered the Colina deposit. Credit: File Latin Resources looks set to pocket more than AU$600 million a year in average annual free cash flow from its Colina lithium project in Brazil once it becomes operational – and that is after tax. According to a new independent preliminary economic assessment (PEA) into the operation released today, the company has outlined an after-tax average annual free cash flow of
Michael Philipps
Sep 28, 2023


MSCI global index rating to boost Latin Resources exposure
Latin Resources has returned significant results from drilling at its Colina deposit in Brazil. Credit: File Latin Resources has been added to the respected Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Global Small-Cap Index in a move expected to see the company gain increased exposure to bigger global institutions. According to MSCI, the index is designed to measure and represent the performance of the small-cap segment of companies across 23 countries that have developed mar
Michael Philipps
Sep 4, 2023


Colina consistency means more Brazilian lithium for Latin Resources
Latin Resources drilling diamond core at its Colina deposit in Brazil. Credit: File Latin Resources says new assays from 12 holes have confirmed the consistency of spodumene grade and thickness within and extending along strike from its 45.2-million-tonne Colina lithium deposit in Brazil. The company says significant intersections from Colina infill drilling include 9.94m at 1.5 per cent lithium oxide from 328.91m, 10.46m at 1.29 per cent from 160.04m, 18.12m at 1.67 per cent

Andrew Duffy
Aug 28, 2023
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