{"id":631161,"date":"2024-01-24T10:26:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T04:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=631161"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:05:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T06:35:36","slug":"codelco-gets-go-ahead-to-acquire-first-lithium-asset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/codelco-gets-go-ahead-to-acquire-first-lithium-asset\/","title":{"rendered":"Codelco gets go-ahead to acquire first lithium asset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chilean state-owned Codelco, the world\u2019s biggest copper producer has got approval to buy Lithium Power International after shareholders of the Australian junior voted in favor of a takeover that diversifies the Chilean miner\u2019s portfolio of key energy transition metals.<\/p>\n<p>Shareholders on Tuesday agreed almost unanimously to greenlight the acquisition of the Sydney-based company in a deal that values it at A$385 million ($253 million). The purchase is Codelco\u2019s first in lithium as the state-owned firm targets Lithium Power\u2019s project in the Maricunga salt flat of northern Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chilean state-owned Codelco, the world\u2019s biggest copper producer has got approval to buy Lithium Power International after shareholders of the Australian junior voted in favor of a takeover that diversifies the Chilean miner\u2019s portfolio of key energy transition metals. Shareholders on Tuesday agreed almost unanimously to greenlight the acquisition of the Sydney-based company in a deal that values it at A$385 million ($253 million). The purchase is Codelco\u2019s first in lithium as the state-owned firm targets Lithium Power\u2019s project in the Maricunga salt flat of northern Chile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,240,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}