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Canada has ordered the Chinese investors of three junior lithium explorers to divest from the Canadian companies, citing national security concerns, reported Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The news agency said that Canadian Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne ordered the divestitures after “rigorous scrutiny” of foreign firms by Canada’s national security and intelligence community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sinomine (Hong Kong) Rare Metals Resources was asked to sell its investment in Power Metals. The company had made an equity investment of C$1.5 million into the mining company and was in the process of negotiating an offtake agreement with regard to the Power Metal\u2019s Case Lake project in northeastern Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chengze Lithium must divest its investment in Lithium Chile. The Chinese firm was a strategic investor in Lithium Chile and sought to advance the company\u2019s Salar de Arizaro property in Argentina. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Lastly, Zangge Mining must exit Ultra Lithium. In June, Zangge agreed to pay US$10 million, in staged payments, to the exploration and development company, as well as invest $40 million in its Laguna Verde project as work expenditures for a 65% stake in its subsidiary Ultra Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In response, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said the Canadian government was using national security as a pretext to block normal cooperation between Chinese and Canadian companies and was damaging global supply chains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cChina urges Canada to stop the unreasonably targeting Chinese companies (in Canada) and provide (them) with a fair, impartial and non-discriminatory business environment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources: <\/em>Reuters<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Power Metals<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Lithium Chile<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Ultra Lithium<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Canada has ordered the Chinese investors of three junior lithium explorers to divest from the Canadian companies, citing national security concerns, reported Reuters. The news agency said that Canadian Industry Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne ordered the divestitures after “rigorous scrutiny” of foreign firms by Canada’s national security and intelligence community. Sinomine (Hong Kong) Rare Metals Resources was asked to sell its…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[495,12],"tags":[1574,694,1573,1572,1575],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-the-headlines","tag-chengze-lithium","tag-lithium","tag-lithium-chile","tag-sinomine","tag-zangge-mining"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t