{"id":845633,"date":"2018-07-13T19:18:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=845633"},"modified":"2018-07-13T19:18:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T19:18:17","slug":"mgx-belmont-set-lithium-joint-venture-in-nevada-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=845633","title":{"rendered":"MGX, Belmont set lithium joint venture in Nevada."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/mgx-belmont-set-lithium-joint-venture-nevada\/\">Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>MGX Minerals, the Canadian junior that grabbed headlines earlier this year for testing a technology that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/vancouver-company-obtains-positive-results-process-extracting-metals-petcoke\/\" rel=\"noopener\">turns oil and gas wastewater into lithium<\/a> is doubling down on North America as a future lithium heavyweight with a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mgxminerals.com\/investors\/news\/2018\/378-mgx-minerals-announces-nevada-lithium-brine-project-jv-with-belmont-resources-drilling-to-commence-at-kibby-basin-nv.html\" rel=\"noopener\">new joint venture.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver-based company has entered into a strategic JV with Belmont Resources, to acquire up to 50% interest in Belmont&#8217;s flagship Kibby Basin Lithium Brine Property, just north of Clayton Valley and the Tesla Gigafactory. It&#8217;s also where Abermarle&#8217;s Silver Peak mine, the only North American lithium producer, is located.<\/p>\n<p>MGX will fund up to Cdn$300,000 of exploration, namely drilling at Kibby. The junior will acquire an initial 25% interest, but can earn a further 25% stake in the project by funding another Cdn$300,000 in exploration for drilling at which time the project will become a 50:50 joint venture with access to MGX&#8217;s rapid lithium extraction technology. MGX will be operator.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/mgx-belmont-set-lithium-joint-venture-nevada\/\">MGX, Belmont set lithium joint venture in Nevada.<\/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\/mgx-belmont-set-lithium-joint-venture-nevada\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/mgx-belmont-set-lithium-joint-venture-nevada\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"MGX, Belmont set lithium joint venture in Nevada.\">Infomine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cecilia Jamasmie MGX Minerals, the Canadian junior that grabbed headlines earlier this year for testing a technology that turns oil and gas wastewater into lithium is doubling down on North America as a future lithium heavyweight with a new joint venture. The Vancouver-based company has entered into a strategic JV with Belmont Resources, to [&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":[360],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845633"}],"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=845633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}