Is This the End of China's Lithium Dominance?

One newly formed company has found a way to solve our lithium deficit in one fell swoop… [Outsider Club Header] Aug 18, 2023 By Alex Koyfman for the Outsider Club Is This the End of China's Lithium Dominance? Dear Reader, There is no way to overstate how important lithium is to today's and tomorrow’s global economy. In fact, just finding a historical parallel to just how all-encompassing lithium is, is hard enough. The closest analogue I can find is fossil fuel, but even that falls desperately short when it comes to illustrating lithium’s importance. Oil and gas drive the world of machinery, from the riding mower in your garage to the car in your driveway, all the way up to the biggest ships on the high seas. What fossil fuels don’t do is power all of the world’s smaller, more delicate machines. Things like your phone, your laptop, and your smartwatch — they're all just as dependent on lithium as any ICE car is on fossil fuel. By 2025, there will be a projected 18.55 billion wireless devices in operation around the world, each and every one of them running on lithium-ion batteries. [QUIZ] 46 BILLION Barrels of Oil?! A massive $5.9 trillion oil boom is about to take place. Three tiny companies just acquired the rights to mine an untapped patch holding 46 billion barrels of oil in a mystery location... And it even has the potential to reach $9 trillion in value if prices reach $200 per barrel! So which country do you think will lead this upcoming oil surge? - Venezuela - Saudi Arabia - Canada - Russia Think you know the answer? [See if you’re right!]( Oil 2.0 Is Here By the end of the 2030s, however, lithium is also going to become a major, if not dominant segment in terms of vehicle power as well. With ICE bans going into effect in Europe starting in 2025 and here in the states as early as 2030, lithium is going to be the premier form of energy storage for all machines. But there is a major problem here. While lithium demand seems to be bottomless, lithium supply is anything but. In fact, starting this year there will be a bona fide lithium shortfall — a gap that’s expanding — between how much we need and how much we have. [MI Black Lithium Image 13] This deficit has been building for a while, and lithium investors know this. The resulting investor speculation combined with the shortfall has reflected on lithium prices in a major way. [MI Black Lithium Lift Chart 2] This may make lithium investors happy, but it does nothing to solve the world's biggest logistical problem. We simply don’t have enough of it. It’s a crisis, and unless you’re living in China — which is hoarding lithium exploration, production, and refinement, as well as actual battery manufacturing — it’s a political crisis as well as a resource crisis. Tiny Stock Has 264 Patents on Groundbreaking AI Tech A little-known AI tech is becoming critical to the operations of 94% of corporations... It’s projected to be in nine out of every 10 cars by 2028... And is already essential to the workflow of 80% of hospitals. Which is the real reason why Bill Gates bet an enormous $20 billion on this AI niche... double what he invested in ChatGPT. Yet one tiny company already holds 264 ironclad patents on this tech. And it's lined up to hand savvy investors like you 5,300% profits. [Click here for the full story.]( Lithium: A Chinese Obsession Since the Days of Deng Xiaoping Now, I know that pointing the finger at the Chinese Communist Party is a bit of a cliché these days, but in this case, it actually applies, as the CCP has absolutely been working toward the goal of global lithium dominance since before Sony released the first lithium-ion batteries to consumers back in the early '90s. For the rest of the world, and certainly for those of us living in China’s No. 1 rival in the game of world influence, there is only one answer: more domestic production… a lot more of it. But that presents its own problem. Lithium needs to be found before it can be mined. That takes months or even years, even when you already know where to look. Then it needs to be mined and extracted, typically through evaporation in giant ponds like the kind pictured below, a process taking up to two years in its own right. [MI Black Lithium Image 4] Meanwhile, the deficit grows. The gap widens. Lithium grows more and more expensive, as does every device that relies on it. There is no simple way to solve this crisis — not if you’re doing things the traditional way. And that’s what I’m writing to you about today. "Great Results Can Be Achieved With Small Forces" — Sun Tzu Because right now, a newly formed company operating on a 671-square-mile property in northwest Alberta has found a very non-traditional way to do exactly that — solve the lithium deficit in one fell swoop. This company was founded just four years ago by a small group of petrochemical industry veterans. Now, why on Earth would a group of oil and gas pros want to start a lithium company? Simple. Because there is a massive lithium resource located on the property this company has contracted to develop, and it’s not in the ground… It’s sitting, dissolved, in hundreds of brine ponds currently being used by a fossil fuel company to produce oil and gas. Some 4.3 million tons of lithium — enough to supply global demand for the next three years — has been located, analyzed, and quantified. There is no exploration to be done. No mining… The only trick is to separate the lithium from the rest of the brine, and for that task, there is no better candidate than an oil and gas expert. This company has revolutionized a process that can extract lithium from the solution at a cost of around $4,000 per ton. In a time when the market price of lithium is hovering at the $70,000/ton mark, the benefits aren't hard to add up. URGENT: Look at This Map of America... [TWA EV Payouts after map] There’s a silent invasion happening. 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Apply the standard multiplier and this company, a true microcap, could be worth in excess of $4 billion within just a few short years — that's 200 times its current value. Of course, it will most likely never actually see those valuations in its present form. With this approach and this timeline, what’s far more likely is a buyout by a major energy company. This company is currently still flying under the radar, but it’s not doing a very good job of it. Investors Be Warned: End Users Are Already Calling Inquiries are already being made by major EV-makers, all looking for sources of non-Chinese lithium for their battery packs. Because yes, the problem is that pressing, and yes, this solution is that promising. I’ve been studying this company for weeks now. I made the decision to initiate my own open market position last month, despite it being the slowest time of the year for trading, during a year that’s been anything but kind to the microcap space. I've also just released an in-depth research report that tells the whole story, starting with the magnitude of the crisis. I urge you to take a look at it right now... It may be the most important document you open this year. [Get immediate access right here.]( Fortune favors the bold, [alex koyfman Signature] Alex Koyfman [[follow basic]Check us out on YouTube!]( His flagship service, Microcap Insider, provides market-beating insights into some of the fastest moving, highest profit-potential companies available for public trading on the U.S. and Canadian exchanges. With more than 5 years of track record to back it up, Microcap Insider is the choice for the growth-minded investor. Alex contributes his thoughts and insights regularly to [Wealth Daily](. 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