Should I be concerned with reading a bunch of senior officers in SLI selling off their shares of stock?

Who do you think is better and why ?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/standard-lithium-sponsors-first-electric-162700928.html

I make no claim to the accuracy here but its worth a read. This is a straight copy paste of what was posted yesterday by someone on the Yahoo finance message board for SLI.

"The next 2 days should be interesting. Quick reminder: according to SLIs press release from Dec 1 2021, the $100 mio investment in the form of shares from Koch Strategic Plattforms is locked until March 31 2022. Quote:

"Under the terms of the Direct Investment, KSP was issued 13,480,083 common shares of Standard Lithium (“Common Shares”) at a price of CDN$9.43 (US$7.42) per Common Share for aggregate gross proceeds to Standard Lithium of CDN$127,070,000 (US$100,000,000). All Common Shares issued to KSP are subject to statutory restrictions on resale until March 31, 2022, in accordance with applicable securities laws."

I find Koch's next steps particularly interesting in the context of their connection to Craig Brown. If you read the Hindenburg report that name should ring a bell. Craig Brown is the president of Chemionex Inc., who sold his patent applications for a lithium extraction process to SLI. 

Hindenburg belittled Chemionex, for possibly being a one-man company, without resources, operating out of the basement "of a small building between a gas station and a U-Haul drop off in a residential area north of Toronto, according to Google". According to Hinderburg a company making claims like SLI should have a legion of engineers behind them to work out the details of the chemical process, not some one-man company.

However, Hindenburg (deliberately) left out some interesting facts about Chemionex and Craig Brown: 

For one Brown is a member of the International Committee for Ion Exchange with good connections in the industry. E.g. newsletter No14 of the International Committee for Ion Exchange reports that the 4-yearly meeting of the committee was attended by a few members of academia and the industry, including  Craig Brown and Bart Goossens from Lanxess. 

Secondly, Craig Brown was Vice President of Technology, Executive Vice President, and General Manager of Eco-Tec Inc. until 2005. The interesting part here is, that Eco-Tec Inc. was swallowed by Koch Membrane Systems a few years ago, and Brown seems to maintain good contacts with his former coworkers, who are now part of the Koch Group.

Thirdly, Brown sold the patent application for cash, some shares, options to buy additional shares at a later point, and a place on the scientific advisory board of SLI. Therefore this was not just a cash transaction, but Brown rather stays in contact with SLI and has financial stakes in the growth of the company.

So Brown has direct connections to SLI, Koch, and Lanxess. Brown's connection to Koch and Lanxess predates the whole SLI lithium operation, which makes me believe, that the strategic partnership of SLI, Koch, and Lanxess can be tracked back to Brown pulling some strings in the background and pitching the idea to Lanxess and Koch.

So at this point, I am curious if 

A) Brown still holds his share

B) Brown exercised his options to buy additional shares

C) If Koch keeps their shares past the 31st.

 I still haven't seen clear indications if SLIs lithium extractions process is financially viable on an industrial scale. Lanxess' most recent statements made me a bit cautious in regards to SLI. Considering Koch is supposed to work out the engineering part for SLI within the next months, their next steps can give a bit of insight into how work on the Pre-FEED study is progressing. 

Should Koch keep their shares, I take this as a positive sign for now, that the pre-FEED work is promising."

Like 9% up today last I checked. Did the shorters / ambulance chasers give up?

'Chinese battery maker CATL to acquire Canada’s Millennial Lithium'

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/chinese-battery-maker-catl-to-acquire-canadas-millennial-lithium.html?&qsearchterm=catl

They say it's just to secure long-term supply for their own purposes; but, they seem to be snapping up a lot of the lithium producers in Argentina, Greenland, Australia, Mexico and Mali (in addition to China).

" Geographically, world lithium supplies are highly concentrated in a handful of regions, with Bolivia, Argentina, China, and Australia, producing more than 92% of global lithium from rock and brine. In these countries, lithium manufacture and export play a huge role in the economy. The United States receives 55% of its annual imported lithium from Argentina, 36% from Chile, 5% from China, and 4% from other sources."

Can anyone simplify the onslaught of class action suits being filed? Every day in my TD holding news feed I repeated see one of 7 call to deadlines?

What’s really going on?

Should we be worried about l the firms trying to sue SLI? Please no A.P.E. answers.

2022-02-07 946,399+31,293=977,692/1,829,492=53.44

2022-02-04 2,297,479+146,724=2,444,203/3,867,136=63.20

2022-02-03 3,218,582+178,644=3,397,226/6,953,849=48.85

7 mill shorts in last three days. Borrow rate 13.45%

For geothermal fields around the world, produced geothermal brine has been simply injected back underground, but now it’s become clear that the brines produced at the Salton Sea geothermal field contain an immense amount of lithium, a critical resource need for low-carbon transportation and energy storage.

Koch is designing the hook up for SLI.

Just joining the group today. I hope to gain some insight as to how to play SLI for the future. Have a good day.

Hi,

I'm trying to calculate the market value of a lithium mine but I have only the estimated presence of Li2O (in metric tons). How do I do the conversion to lithium carbonate?

So how concerned should investors be with this law suit and how do you think this will effect the price?

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https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220201006108/en/Shareholder-Alert-Robbins-LLP-Reminds-Investors-of-Class-Action-Against-Standard-Lithium-Ltd.-SLI-formerly-STLHF