Usually after PDAC the large mining convention in Toronto ends there tends to be a hang over from all the partying and promoting. Stocks have tended to pullback and volume dwindled. However, I am keeping a close eye on the lithium sector which continues to be quite exciting and generating a lot of investment interest as the lithium price continues to soar. "For 10 or 12 years, (Argentina) was a do-not-invest zone. The tone of doing business has just swung 180 degrees," said Tom Hodgson, the chief executive of Western Lithium, which is developing a project in the country due to begin production next year. Argentina now has a "major opportunity" to build a lithium export business, Hodgson told Reuters earlier this month at a mining conference in Toronto. Western Lithium is working with Korean steelmaker POSCO, whose chairman was in Argentina last month to meet with Macri and begin the construction of a new lithium plant, due to begin commercial production within a year..."
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