{"id":748627,"date":"2018-06-06T22:26:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T22:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=748627"},"modified":"2018-06-06T22:26:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T22:26:06","slug":"it-was-a-big-q1-for-battery-material-financings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=748627","title":{"rendered":"It was a big Q1 for battery material financings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/battery-material-financings-big-q1\/\">Michael Allan McCrae<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/battery-material-financings-big-q1\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/financecommo15.png\" alt=\"Mining Intelligence q1 2018 top financings by commodity\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Investors gave a leg up to companies raising money for lithium, copper or nickel during the first quarter in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Investors pored US$325M into lithium companies. Most of the money went to Orocobre. Toyota <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.toyota-tsusho.com\/english\/press\/detail\/180116_004099.html\">bought 15% of the Australian-based lithium company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual gold was on top. Half the US$832M closed went to Lundin Gold to advance its Fruta del Norte gold project in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Cobalt was way down the list at just $23M, however the blue metal had a big 2017 powered by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/web\/cobalt-27-aims-tap-electric-car-revolution-150-mln-ipo\/\">high-flier Cobalt 27<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Data is from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miningintelligence.com\/?utm_medium=content_marketing&amp;utm_source=miningdotcom&amp;utm_campaign=general\">Mining Intelligence<\/a> looking at closed financings over US$10 million. Stock exchanges used are TSX, TSX-V, ASX, LSE, LSE-AIM, NYSE and JSE. Only completed placement offerings were compiled.<\/p>\n<p>The top closed financings by company were the following:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/topfinance15.png\" alt=\"Mining Intelligence Top Financings q1 2018\" width=\"944\" height=\"755\"><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miningintelligence.com\/?utm_medium=content_marketing&amp;utm_source=miningdotcom&amp;utm_campaign=general\">Sign up for Mining Intelligence<\/a> and get rich insights about miners, juniors and projects. Our online tool puts rich data at your fingertips.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Creative Commons image of calculator provided by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/157270154@N05\/\">Mike Lawrence<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/battery-material-financings-big-q1\/\">It was a big Q1 for battery material financings<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/battery-material-financings-big-q1\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/battery-material-financings-big-q1\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"It was a big Q1 for battery material financings\">Mining.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Allan McCrae Investors gave a leg up to companies raising money for lithium, copper or nickel during the first quarter in 2018. Investors pored US$325M into lithium companies. Most of the money went to Orocobre. Toyota bought 15% of the Australian-based lithium company. As usual gold was on top. Half the US$832M closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=748627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=748627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=748627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=748627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}