One World Lithium closes first C$264,150 tranche of C$910,000 placement
What's the deal? One World LithiumDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has closed the first tranche of a non-brokered private placement, raising C$264,150 (about $190,700) toward a planned C$910,000 offering. The Vancouver company issued 7,547,142 units at C$0.035 each, with each unit including one common share and half a warrant.
The terms: Each warrant is exercisable at C$0.08 for 36 months. The securities carry a four-month exchange hold under Canadian Securities Exchange policies, on top of the statutory hold period.
Where the money goes: One World Lithium plans to use net proceeds to advance its patent-pending lithium extraction technologies. That includes continued laboratory testing, engineering evaluation, and working capital.
What's the endgame? The company is developing proprietary methods to produce lithium from brines and clay slurries. It says it is pursuing strategic partnerships to commercialise lower-impact, scalable production.
Who's in? An officer and director, plus another director, took part in the tranche. Because insiders participated, the deal counts as a related party transaction under Multilateral Instrument 61-101, though it is exempt from formal valuation and minority approval rules since the amounts fall below 25% of the company's market capitalisation.
The signal: The modest first close underscores how small-cap developers are chipping away at financings in tranches to fund early-stage lithium technology. With commercialisation still ahead, One World Lithium's raise buys runway to keep testing its extraction methods rather than deploy them at scale.
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