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🇺🇸U.S. Backs AVZ in Congo. Lithium developer 🇦🇺Australian $AVZ Minerals in 🇨🇩DRCongo Today's The Australian

China’s clean tech exports are surging amid the oil shock, with lithium battery shipments up 50% and EV exports jumping 77.5% in Q1 as high fuel prices drive demand. #EnergyTransition #EVs #China oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-…

U.S.-DRC Mineral Partnership Information Session 🇺🇸🇨🇩 $AVZ time stamp 1:18:30 Manono #lithium "Jewel in the crown" to the accord. Michael Hunter represents client @AvzMinerals Positive momentum 2 weeks ago with KoBold stalled, hoping neg. pick up again youtube.com/live/HHFCK1Dvp…

$AVZ : "Rio Tinto has held talks with DRC about developing one of the world’s biggest hard rock lithium deposits, in the latest sign of the miner’s enthusiasm for the battery metal. ..focused on Rio getting involved in transforming the #RocheDure into a lithium mine" Bloomberg

"minimum $1.50, but I think circa $2-2.50 is the true value (MC $10B) as per $AVZ compensation claim against DRC." #Lithium Manono #RocheDure #AVZ

@emil_jens @newbs230 @DaveEva12049801 @mjkcongo @markets @KoBold_Metals @Presidence_RDC @iccwbo @ICC_arbitration @icsid kobold knows that they can't get the land without AVZ because the court proceedings are still pending at the ICC and ICSID, so the price has to be higher before AVZ says yes, I think the 10 billion dollars that AVZ is demanding in court is the minimum

#DRC: Not too surprising but a *major* development for Congo, the US, and long suffering $AVZ investors. This is a clear sign the talks between the Trump Admin + @Presidence_RDC are going well. I can also confirm there are now 3 other US-based, investor groups in the discussion (inc Kobold) regarding this deal with interest in DRC's massive copper, cobalt, lithium, 3T's, REE, coltan, uranium, and zinc/germanium reserves (all 13-14 of these minerals are considered strategic minerals by the @DeptofDefense). #CriticalMinerals #Africa #M23_AFC

"President Trump is really interested, and a deal to satisfy $AVZ 🇦🇺 the 🇨🇩DRC and the 🇺🇸US is imminent. CATL will be looked after as the U.S. has little experience in the manufacturing conversion of Lithium to Batteries. Tesla is developing Links with CATL" @AvzMinerals #Lithium

Cominiere ordered to pay €39M. @cominiereSA had contravened the emergency orders in several ways, it had: a) sought & obtained the extension of $AVZ PR13359 in its name from CAMI b) Solicited and obtained the split of #AVZ #PR13359; and c) assigned #PR15775 to @ManonoLithium SAS

#SADC Sth African Troops to Pull out of DRC as #M23 Gains Ground. $AVZ Minerals: will we see a quick deal signed between the 🇺🇸U.S. and DRC President Tshisekedi for #CriticalMinerals pact in exchange for security in the DRC. #AVZ 🇦🇺🇨🇩 Lithium Manono bbc.com/news/articles/…

$AVZ follow up from yesterdays breaking article from The Australia, Michael Rubin @mrubin1971 today “Canberra, like Washington, may have been slow to gauge Beijing’s threat correctly, but many Australians have now learned the lesson. As China seeks to bribe and coerce Congo through illicit means to push Australian firms out of Congo’s mining sector, the Trump administration must defend Australia’s interests both diplomatically and with economic sanctions on Chinese firms. The logic of the #Lobito corridor is to direct African trade westward into the Atlantic basin in order to better orient African trade away from China. China, however, is fighting dirty to hamper Australian mining in Africa. Consider the case of $AVZ Minerals, an Australian firm seeking to extract lithium and tin from Manono in southern Congo. Exploratory digging shows the lithium deposits in the region are huge. Colloquially, AVZ hit the motherlode.  But Congolese corruption, abetted by the People’s Republic of China, seek to deny them their contractual right. AVZ now has International Court of Arbitration cases pending before involving La Congolaise d’Exploitation Minière, Jin Cheng Mining Company, and Dathomir Mining Resources SARLU, and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes against the Democratic Republic of Congo itself. While AVZ does not seek to marginalize China entirely—economically it makes no sense for them to do so—they seek balance between East and West. China, however, rejects balance in favor of its own maximalist approach. It has corrupted at least 13 Congolese media outlets. Ten of millions of dollars held in escrow disappeared, a theft in which Chinese officials appear complicit. The Congolese government proceeded to arrest journalists pursuing the story. A March 2022 forensic investigation based on AVZ and Congolese documents showed hard evidence of Chinese bribery. Chinese mining interests fund “non-governmental organizations” whose sole purpose appears to be to undermine Australia’s interest. Congolese public companies also sold shares to Chinese firms at fire sale prices in contravention of the law in a scheme to quadruple personal profits for Congolese officials up to and including the prime minister. Zijin and the Congolese government’s strategy appears to be economic attrition, to steal and filibuster until AVZ has no choice but to suspend operations and give up. Zijin’s latest strategy appears to be to stop paying arbitration costs in the hope the court ceases its work. AVZ is just one case among many that exposes how Chinese interests leverage Congo’s corruption to try to corner the market in strategic metals. The nature of the U.S. intelligence, national security, and diplomatic bureaucracy is compartmentalized. Analysts spent their careers focused on the weeds, never getting to the trees let alone spotting the forest. While the National Security Council is supposed to coordinate, it seldom effectively pieces together disparate problems, especially when they span bureaucracies let alone continents. Rather than just chalk up AVZ’s difficulties extracting lithium and tin from Congo, it is important to understand how Beijing takes a “whole of government” approach to harass and cheat competitors, and the general shenanigans in which they engage. Americans increasingly throw around the phrase “fake news” to discredit anything with which they disagree, the Congo dispute shows how China wholesale purchases and promotes fake stories in pursuit of its commercial monopolies and strategic interests. If Trump seeks to counter China, it is essential he recognize the battle will not only be in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, but also in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s forests and mines, international arbitration courts, and the boardrooms of Australia. Incoming Secretary of State Marco Rubio should direct diplomats in Kinshasa to spend more time in southern Congo where the action is… aei.org/op-eds/donald-…

The Australian understands both 🇺🇸White House officials and the 🇨🇩DRC want Manono to end up in US hands via $AVZ US & DRC officials have discussed the ownership of Manono & #AVZ claims to the project, according to a source who attended talks but not authorised to speak publicly.

The Trump administration is poised to insist control of a massive lithium deposit be handed back to $AVZ Minerals Australian company as it advances its critical minerals interests in the resource-rich DRC If AVZ regains control of Manono, it is likely to be on-sold to a US entity

So IF your President @realDonaldTrump @SecRubio 🇺🇸 is going to be less dependent on China (CATL worlds global leader supplier), where will you acquire all the #Lithium needed ?! Look no further than $AVZ Minerals @AvzMinerals in DRC Congo - worlds largest hard rock battery grade deposit ‼️ #CriticalMineralsAct static1.squarespace.com/static/5934d2a…

@Manonolithium @MinMinesRDC @Presidence_RDC @AssembleeNatRDC 谁挽救刚果人民！给刚果一个公平的营商环境！答案是依法处置Celestin Kibeya刚果历史最大贪污犯挪用公款、接受中国紫金矿业公司巨额贿赂问题. 将导致刚果共和国破产. AVZ在刚果银行存款也被偷走！世界人民在看着刚果总统的失职和不作为！世界各国投资者在等待国际法庭的最后裁决！这次投资必将写进史书

🚨🇨🇩U.S. IN TALKS FOR MINERAL DEAL WITH DR CONGO IN EXCHANGE FOR MILITARY SUPPORT The U.S. and DR Congo are in discussions over a deal that would grant American companies access to critical minerals—including copper, cobalt, and uranium—in exchange for military aid to Congolese forces fighting M23 rebels. - Trump administration sees this as a way to secure strategic resources and counter China's dominance in Congo’s mining sector. - DR Congo seeks US military training and equipment as conflict with Rwanda-backed rebels escalates. - Political instability raises doubts over the deal’s viability, with some calling it an act of desperation by the Congolese government. Source: FT

🇨🇩🇺🇸U.S. OPEN TO MINERAL DEALS WITH DR CONGO AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EYES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP The United States is open to negotiating critical mineral partnerships with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as Trump’s America First Agenda looks to secure cobalt, lithium, and uranium—essential for advanced technologies. The Congo government has been in talks with U.S. officials, seeking diversified partnerships. A Congolese delegation recently traveled to Washington, and behind-the-scenes negotiations are underway. With Ukraine also in discussions for a minerals pact, the U.S. is strategically positioning itself in the global resource race. Source: Reuters

DRCongo could give U.S. companies mining extraction rights, In exchange, for American support for training & equipping Congolese armed forces Congolese officials hope a minerals deal will shore up support for Tshisekedi as he struggles with armed conflict with M23 $AVZ 🇦🇺 Lithium

@emil_jens @POTUS @VP @ZelenskyyUa The blow up was when Zelensky said to JD Vance "what Diplomacy are you thinking of" They both took it as tongue in cheek basically saying there's no peace talks with Putin for Zelensky coz zelensky personal opinion 👇 Why Russia is at war with Ukraine x.com/NationFirstAus…

Yesterday’s breakdown #WhiteHouse @POTUS @VP - I think the breakdown was due to “lost in translation” and @ZelenskyyUa Zelenskyy should have used his translator, as his English is not good enough (just like he did later on Fox interview) but it really started when Z called VP “JD” whilst JD said or addressed Z as Mr President. Also lost in translation when Z said “what do you mean” I know Ukraine people use that in English but in the West it’s not understood that way. @ZelenskyyUa today tweets greatful to the USA including @realDonaldTrump POTUS

Trump was right. Zelenskyy has never had the cards. He isn’t some brave leader calling the shots. He’s a desperate man, clinging to power in a collapsing regime—propped up by Western money, weapons & propaganda. And with Ukraine losing the PR war & real war, he's panicking. 3/22