SIGMA LITHIUM INCREASES PROVEN & PROBABLE OPEN PIT MINERAL RESERVE BY 40% TO 77Mt EXTENDING OPERATIONS TO 25 YEARS
SÃO PAULO, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sigma Lithium Corporation ("Sigma Lithium" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SGML, BVMF: S2GM34, TSXV: SGML), a leading global lithium producer dedicated to powering the next generation of electric vehicles with carbon neutral, socially and environmentally sustainable lithium concentrate, announces it is increasing its Proven and Probable Mineral Reserves at its 100% owned Grota do Cirilo operation at Vale do Jequitinhonha by 40%, equivalent to 22.2 million tonnes.
- Sigma Lithium is increasing its Proven and Probable Reserve balance by 40% to 77.0 million tonnes from 54.8 million tonnes.
- The entirety of this mineral Reserve balance is feasible through low-cost, open pit, mining operations, consolidating the Company's position as a low-cost producer of Quintuple Zero High Purity Lithium materials.
- Increased Proven and Probable Reserves lengthens the duration of Sigma's integrated industrial-mining operations to an estimated 25 years at two phases of processing capacity at 520,000 tonnes/year.
- The Company is increasing its consolidated Proven and Probable Reserve balance to 77.0 million tonnes at 1.40% lithium oxide (Li2O) from 54.8 million tonnes at 1.44% prior.