−Removed: Minerals, Inc.
−Removed: (“Brazil Minerals”, the “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is
−Removed: mineral exploration and mining company with projects and properties in essentially all battery metals to power the Green Energy
−Removed: Revolution – lithium, rare earths, graphite, nickel, cobalt, and titanium.
−Removed: Our current focus is on developing our hard-rock lithium
−Removed: project located in a premier pegmatitic district in Brazil – as lithium is essential for batteries in electric vehicles.
+Added: Lithium Corporation (“Atlas Lithium”, the “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”
+Added: refer to Atlas Lithium Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries) is a mineral exploration and development company with lithium projects
+Added: and exploration properties in other critical and battery minerals, including nickel, rare earths, graphite, and titanium, to power the
+Added: increased demand for electrification in our daily living, as exemplified by the rise in demand for electric vehicles, and simultaneous
+Added: transition away from fossil fuels.
+Added: Our current focus is on developing our hard-rock lithium project located in Minas Gerais State in
+Added: Brazil at a well-known, premier pegmatitic district in Brazil.
+Added: We intend to produce and sell lithium concentrate, a key ingredient for
+Added: the global battery supply chain.
+Added: are also in the initial stages of planning to develop and own 100% of a plant capable of producing 150,000 tons of lithium concentrate
+Added: However, there can be no assurance that such a facility may ultimately come to fruition or, if developed, that the production
+Added: capacity will equal our expectations.
+Added: December 2022, we signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
+Added: a global enterprise headquartered in Tokyo.
+Added: The MOU contemplates potential funding from Mitsui to us of up to $65 million, to be made
+Added: in tranches and subject to the achievement of specific milestones acceptable to Mitsui, that would give Mitsui the right to buy, at market
+Added: price, up to 100% of our production from our planned plant with output capacity of 150,000 tons of lithium concentrate per year.
+Added: are no certainties that we will enter into a binding agreement with Mitsui, or that we will achieve any milestones acceptable to Mitsui
+Added: or receive any funding from them.
+Added: of our mineral projects and properties are located in Brazil and, as of the date of this Annual Report, our mineral rights portfolio
+Added: for critical and battery minerals includes approximately 75,040 acres (304 km2) for lithium in 64 mineral rights, 54,950 acres for nickel
+Added: (222 km2) in 15 mineral rights, 30,054 acres (122 km2) for rare earths in seven mineral rights, 22,050 acres (89 km2) for titanium in
+Added: seven mineral rights, and 13,766 acres (56 km2) for graphite in three mineral rights.
+Added: Gerais Lithium Project
+Added: Minas Gerais Lithium Project is currently our largest endeavor and primary focus.
+Added: This project is located in northeastern Minas Gerais,
+Added: Brazil along the prolific Eastern Brazilian Pegmatite Province (“EBP”) that extends more than 850 kilometers across eastern
+Added: Minas Gerais.
+Added: Pegmatites are igneous bodies derived during the final stages of crystallization of a larger parent igneous intrusion,
+Added: most commonly a granitic rock.
+Added: They are distinctive for their very coarse-grained crystalline texture, and in some instances, complex
+Added: composition with unusual minerals and rare elements.
+Added: Commercially productive lithium mineralization along the EBP is centered around
+Added: the Araçuaí mining district which is host to the majority of Brazil’s commercial lithium production and reported
+Added: mineral reserves.
+Added: current lithium property position in the State of Minas Gerais comprises 57 mineral rights totaling 58,774 acres (304
+Added: km 2 ) which include five main clusters of prospective mineralization:
+Added: Neves (currently being explored by drilling
+Added: campaign), Itinga, Salinas, Santa Clara, and Tesouras.
+Added: Our Neves and Santa Clara clusters are located directly adjacent to and
+Added: along trend of a large cluster of lithium deposits currently being developed by Sigma Lithium Resources (Nasdaq:
+Added: of the region’s long mining history, basic local infrastructure near our mineral properties ranges from adequate to robust, with
+Added: access to hydroelectric power and water supplies, a well-established road network with direct access to commercial ports.
+Added: and services, industrial suppliers and a skilled and semi-skilled labor force are also generally available from the surrounding communities
+Added: where we operate.
+Added: initiating exploration at our Minas Gerais Lithium Project in early 2021, we have confirmed the widespread presence of hard-rock lithium-bearing
+Added: pegmatites across our property portfolio.
+Added: the second quarter of 2022, we engaged SLR International Corporation (“SLR”) to prepare an initial Technical Report Summary
+Added: (“TRS”) compliant with the requirements of Items 1300 through 1305 of Regulation S-K (“Regulation S-K 1300”)
+Added: on the ongoing and planned exploration of our 100%-owned Neves Lithium Project, located in Araçuaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil
+Added: (the “Neves Project”).
+Added: SLR is a global technical consulting firm which is well-known in the mining industry as a premier provider of technical
+Added: reporting and certification.
+Added: SLR visited our project site and discussed technical details with our geologists during the preparation
+Added: TRS on the Neves Project is included as Exhibit 96.2 to this Annual Report.
+Added: The effective date of such report is August 10, 2022.
+Added: EBP is considered to be one of the world’s largest geologic belts of granites and related pegmatite intrusive bodies, encompassing
+Added: more than 150,000 km 2 and with more than 90% of the belt located in eastern Minas Gerais state.
+Added: Pegmatites are igneous rocks
+Added: that form during the final stages of a granitic magma’s crystallization.
+Added: They are readily identifiable by their exceptionally coarse
+Added: crystalline texture, with individual crystals averaging one centimeter or more in size.
+Added: Most pegmatites have a simple mineral composition
+Added: common to granitic rocks, however some may also contain less common minerals that are rarely found in other types of rocks.
+Added: These include
+Added: lithium minerals of commercial interest such as spodumene which can contain up to 3.73% Li (8.03% LiO 2 ), and petalite with
+Added: up to 2.09% Li (4.50% LiO 2 ).
+Added: project area encompasses multiple areas of mineralized pegmatites, in general occurring as series of sub-parallel elongate tabular bodies,
+Added: referred to as ‘pegmatite dike swarms,’ hosted in metamorphic shists.
+Added: Individual pegmatite bodies range from several meters
+Added: to more than 50 meters thick and from tens of meters up to one (1) kilometer in lateral strike length.
+Added: They are primarily composed of
+Added: the minerals quartz, feldspar and mica with localized concentrations of spodumene and petalite.
+Added: Individual feldspar and spodumene crystals
+Added: can reach up to two meters in length, but typically are more homogeneously distributed and ranging in size from one to a few centimeters
+Added: initiating our exploration program in 2021, our team has focused on evaluating the Neves target area through a systematic approach involving
+Added: a combination of basic prospecting, geologic field mapping, trenching and geochemical sampling, and diamond drilling.
+Added: From August 2021 to March 2023, 81 diamond drill holes totaling 9,285 meters
+Added: have been completed at Atlas’ flagship Das Neves (“Neves”) property.
+Added: At Neves, our current focus is on the Abelhas pegmatite
+Added: cluster, a system of northeasterly trending intrusive dikes (or ‘dike swarm’) that has been mapped over an approximate 1,000-meter
+Added: by 400-meter area.
+Added: diamond drill core rigs are currently operating, with an eighth drill expected for early April 2023.
+Added: we released assay results for the drill holes completed at Neves .
+Added: Significant highlights for such drill holes include:
+Added: Li 2 O over 3.5 meters Estimated True Width (“ETW”) in hole AB-11
+Added: Li 2 O over 17.3 meters ETW in hole AB-11B
+Added: Li2O over 4.8 meters ETW in hole AB-12
+Added: Li2O over 7.9 meters ETW in hole AB-13
+Added: Li 2 O over 18.2 meters ETW in hole AB-15
+Added: Li2O over 8.0 meters ETW in hole AB-18
+Added: Li 2 O over 21.2 meters ETW in hole AB-21
+Added: Li2O over 8.0 meters ETW in hole AB-39B
+Added: Li2O over 6.9 meters ETW in hole AB-39B
+Added: Li2O over 27.0 meters ETW in hole AB-41
+Added: Li2O over 14.0 meters ETW in hole AB-57
+Added: Li2O over 21.6 meters ETW in hole AB-64
+Added: drilling at Abelhas began immediately south of the historic working, returning multiple pegmatite intercepts over thicknesses ranging
+Added: from 1 to 11 meters ETW.
+Added: As the majority of these intercepts were relatively shallow and within 50 meters vertical depth from surface,
+Added: lithium contents were generally low due to the effects of near-surface weathering and oxidation.
+Added: Systematic step-out drilling to the
+Added: south has returned multiple intercepts of higher-grade lithium mineralization hosted in fresh un-weathered pegmatite with grades ranging
+Added: from 1.00% Li 2 O to as high as 3.26% Li 2 O.
+Added: February 2023, a new target named “Anitta” was intercepted, extending the “Neves” trend ore body to approximately
+Added: 1.1 kilometer.
+Added: The initial Anitta drilling holes (southeast of the mineralization trend) intersected pegmatite intervals with spodumene
+Added: mineralization, including a section of 4.40% Li 2 O.
+Added: A grid of 100 drill holes is currently being executed encompassing areas
+Added: on and around the Southwestern portion of Anitta, as well as areas connecting the Southwestern portion of Anitta to the original Abelhas
+Added: This drilling campaign phase is expected to be finalized in eight weeks.
+Added: intersects of the new target:
+Added: – 02 intersects totaling 16.0 meters of pegmatite.
+Added: – 04 intersects totaling 67.1 meters of pegmatite.
+Added: – 04 intersects totaling 44.6 meters of pegmatite.
+Added: – 02 intersects totaling 29.1 meters of pegmatite.
+Added: – 03 intersects totaling 28.3 meters of pegmatite.
Additionally,
−Removed: through subsidiaries, we participate in iron, gold, and quartzite projects.
−Removed: We also own multiple mining concessions for gold, diamond,
−Removed: and industrial sand.
−Removed: of our mineral projects and properties are located in Brazil and, as of the date of this Report, our mineral rights portfolio
−Removed: for battery metals includes approximately 60,077 acres (243 km 2 ) for lithium, 30,009 acres (121 km 2 ) for rare earths,
−Removed: 22,050 acres (89 km 2 ) for titanium, 14,507 acres (59 km 2 ) for graphite, and 7,509 acres (30 km 2 ) for
−Removed: nickel and cobalt.
−Removed: We believe we are among the largest listed companies by size and breadth in exploration projects for strategic
−Removed: minerals in Brazil, a premier mineral jurisdiction.
−Removed: are primarily focused on advancing and developing our hard-rock lithium project located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, where some
−Removed: of our high-potential mineral rights are adjacent to or near large lithium deposits that belong to a large, publicly traded competitor.
−Removed: Our Minas Gerais Lithium Project is our largest endeavor and consists of 44 mineral rights spread over 45,456 acres (184 km 2 )
−Removed: and predominantly located within the Brazilian Eastern Pegmatitic Province which has been surveyed by the Brazilian Geological Survey
−Removed: and is known for the presence of hard rock formations known as pegmatites which contain lithium-bearing minerals such as spodumene and
−Removed: In general, lithium derived from pegmatites is less costly to purify for uses in high technology applications than lithium
−Removed: obtained from brine.
−Removed: Such applications include the battery supply chain for electric vehicles (“EVs”), an area of expected
−Removed: high growth for the next several decades.
−Removed: believe that we can materially increase our value by the acceleration of our exploratory work and quantification of our lithium mineralization.
−Removed: Our initial commercial goal is to be able to enter production of lithium-bearing concentrate, a product which is highly sought after
−Removed: in the battery supply chain for EVs.
−Removed: also have 100%-ownership of early-stage projects and properties in other minerals that are needed in the battery supply chain and high
−Removed: technology applications such as rare earths, titanium, nickel, and cobalt.
−Removed: Our goal is to become “the Mineral Resources Company
−Removed: for the Green Energy Revolution”.
−Removed: We believe that the shift from fossil fuels to battery power will yield long-term opportunities
−Removed: for us not only in lithium but also in such other minerals.
+Added: through geological mapping in the identification of new outcrops and the soil geochemistry work carried out so far, new trends mineralized
+Added: in lithium to the East and Northwest of Abelhas were identified, as shown in the map below.
+Added: Exploration holes are planned for early April
+Added: 2023 in these respective areas.
+Added: map indicating potential mineralized pegmatite bodies northwest of the traverse.
+Added: November 2022, soil geochemistry campaigns have been started in the Neves project with the aim of identifying areas with the existence
+Added: of a lithium anomaly and also comparing the anomalies with data from the geological mapping already carried out.
+Added: survey was guided by NW-SE direction lines spaced every 100 meters.
+Added: Sampling points were defined along these lines, every 25 meters on
+Added: average, depending on physiographic conditions (topography, vegetation, obstacles such as outcrops).
+Added: For the process of collecting soil
+Added: samples, a portable mechanized auger equipped with a gasoline engine, rods and drills or shells was used.
+Added: The sample collection was carried
+Added: out with an average depth of 1 meter, in order to go beyond the layer of organic soil.
+Added: sampling machine.
+Added: first campaign was carried out in November 2022 with the results obtained in December.
+Added: A second campaign started at the end of January
+Added: 2023 and ended at the beginning of March 2023.
+Added: Part of the chemical results of the second campaign have already been made available and
+Added: Additional soil geochemistry campaigns are underway and planned.
+Added: results of the first soil campaign and part of the 2nd campaign.
+Added: General overview and planning of upcoming campaigns
+Added: parallel with our ongoing drilling campaign at Neves, our field crews have also been actively conducting field reconnaissance surveys
+Added: over our other exploration mineral rights in the district.
+Added: This work has so far resulted in the positive identification by our Qualified
+Added: Person for lithium of multiple pegmatite occurrences exposed in surface outcrops and historic artisanal mine workings.
+Added: the Tesouras Target, reconnaissance field mapping and sampling has returned multiple samples containing anomalous lithium in association
+Added: with petalite mineralization exposed at surface.
+Added: the Santa Clara Target, preliminary reconnaissance mapping has identified petalite-bearing pegmatite with anomalous concentrations of
+Added: lithium exposed in an inactive artisanal mine working and nearby outcrops that are exposed over an area measuring approximately 100 meters
+Added: long by 30 meters wide.
+Added: The three other pegmatites identified in the Santa Clara area have been mapped over areas ranging from 150 to
+Added: 240 meters in length by 10 to 15 meters in width.
+Added: All three of these bodies are only partially exposed at surface, remaining open in
+Added: both directions along strike and at depth.
+Added: the Salinas Target, preliminary field reconnaissance by our team of geologists has identified several spodumene-bearing pegmatites.
+Added: exposed outcropping portion of one of these pegmatites measures approximately 200 meters in length by 40 meters in width.
+Added: This pegmatite
+Added: is located one kilometer from “Lavra do Oscar,” a large artisanal mining site that has produced spodumene in the past.
+Added: Itinga project includes four newly acquired mineral rights and two mineral rights previously owned by us
+Added: mapping work was carried out in these areas and areas with potential lithium mineralization were identified.
+Added: pegmatitic body outcropping in artisanal mines
+Added: Brazil Lithium Project
+Added: Northeastern Brazil Lithium Project encompasses seven mineral rights spread over approximately 16,266 acres (66 km 2 ) in the
+Added: States of Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, both located in Brazil’s Northeastern region.
+Added: We have identified pegmatites in
+Added: many of our areas, and several of our mineral rights are located near to or adjacent to areas known to have spodumene, a lithium-bearing
+Added: We plan to continue to explore our areas to assess whether we have any economic deposits.
+Added: Metallurgical
+Added: comprehensive metallurgical testing of a representative ore sample of our Neves Project has been carried out at the SGS analytical
+Added: laboratory in Lakefield, Canada (“SGS Lakefield”).
+Added: SGS Lakefield is a world-renowned testing facility within the mining
+Added: industry and has been providing independent assessments since 1941.
+Added: Preliminary results from studies with our ore indicate three
+Added: important characteristics:
+Added: easy separation of lithium, robust concentration of lithium, and low impurities such as iron.
+Added: Lakefield was able to process our ore to commercial grade spodumene concentrate (also called lithium concentrate) using standard
+Added: dense media separation (“DMS”) methods.
+Added: We expect to receive the complete report on such studies from SGS Lakefield in
+Added: forward, in parallel with our ongoing exploration program, we plan to conduct metallurgical testing on an ongoing basis as we continue
+Added: to drill test and delineate potential lithium mineral resources across our property portfolio.
+Added: 2021, the Global Lithium market was valued at USD 4,650 Million in 2021 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 13.5% during the forecast
+Added: period of 2023-2028.
+Added: The market for lithium-ion batteries is predicted to grow even larger over the forecast period as a result of the
+Added: electrification of cars.
+Added: to the strict rules that ICE automakers must adhere to in order to minimize carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles, the automotive
+Added: application market is predicted to increase significantly over the course of the projection period.
+Added: This has caused automakers to become
+Added: more interested in creating EVs, which is expected to increase demand for lithium and related goods.
+Added: Together with investments in this
+Added: area, government subsidies for Electric Vehicles (EVs) are projected to serve as an additional catalyst for the market’s expansion.”
+Added: Global Lithium Market (2023 Edition) - Analysis By Value and Volume, Source (Brine, Hardrock), Applications, End Users, By Region,
+Added: Market Size, Insights, Competition, Covid-19 Impact and Forecast (2023-2028).
+Added: Azoth Analytics.
+Added: February, 2023.
+Added: Vehicle Demand
+Added: demand for lithium for manufacturing EV batteries is another factor driving market revenue growth.
+Added: Despite the effects of COVID-19 in
+Added: the automobile industry, sales of EVs increased by almost 50% in 2020 and increased almost double to about seven million units in 2021.
+Added: When compared to a five-year average of about USD 14,500 per metric ton, lithium prices have risen by about 550% in a year due to surge
+Added: in EV demand.
+Added: By the beginning of March 2022, price of lithium carbonate had surpassed USD 75,000 per metric ton and price of lithium
+Added: hydroxide had surpassed USD 65,000 per metric ton.
+Added: Moreover, almost all traction batteries used currently in EVs and consumer gadgets
+Added: are produced using lithium, while other uses for lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries include everything from energy storage to air travel.
+Added: There are numerous unknowns regarding how the battery market will impact future lithium demand as battery content changes depending on
+Added: active materials mix and new battery technologies are entering the market.
+Added: For instance, compared to currently popular mixes using a
+Added: graphite anode and lithium metal anode, which increases energy density in batteries, has roughly quadruple lithium needs per kilowatt-hour.”
+Added: Lithium Mining Market, By Source, By Type (Chloride, Lithium Hydroxide, Carbonate, and Concentrate), By End-Use (Flux Powder, Polymers,
+Added: Batteries, Refrigeration, Air Conditioning Equipment, and Glass & Ceramics), By Region Forecast to 2030.
+Added: Emergen Research.
+Added: September, 2022.
+Added: Developments Potentially Affecting Lithium Demand
+Added: August 25, 2022, the Washington Post published an article titled “ Did California just kill the gas-powered car?
+Added: with the sub-heading “ California’s decision to ban the sales of combustion engine cars is the latest victory in the transition
+Added: to electric vehicles, ” stating among things that:
+Added: which already leads the nation with 18% of new cars sold electric, is expected to approve a regulation to ban the sales of
+Added: new gas-only powered vehicles by 2035.
+Added: In addition to EVs, only a limited number of plug-in hybrids will be allowed to be sold and that
+Added: in California’s car market is only slightly smaller than those of France, Italy and Britain - and while many countries have promised
+Added: to phase out sales of gas cars by such-and-such date, few have concrete regulations like California.”
+Added: EV battery demand is strong
+Added: June 8, 2022, the European Union Parliament voted to ban the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars and vans starting in 2035.
+Added: no assurances can be given, these recent developments, if left unchallenged, may potentially increase demand for lithium in the U.S.,
+Added: European Union and other jurisdictions adopting similar bans on gas-powered vehicles.
+Added: Dynamic Lithium Prices
+Added: Directly relevant to our goal to produce lithium concentrate (also
+Added: called spodumene concentrate) for sale, it is important to note that the prices of such commodity have been volatile.
+Added: According to Platts,
+Added: a unit of S&P Global, a market intelligence firm, the price of spodumene concentrate FOB Australia (ticker symbol:
+Added: BATSP03) was $6,300
+Added: per ton on January 13, 2023 and more recently, on March 27, 2023, it was $4,750.
+Added: Mineral Intelligence, a well-respected global consulting firm specializing in the battery supply chain market, predicts that:
+Added: for lithium-ion batteries is set to grow six-fold by 2032 as global automakers scale up production of EVs, and
+Added: meet the world’s lithium requirements would require 74 new lithium mines with an average size of 45,000 tonnes by 2035.
+Added: Production and Sales
+Added: expect the demand for our lithium concentrate, once in production, to be facilitated by Brazil’s strong mining tradition and its
+Added: substantial annual trade with China, the United States, and the European Union.
+Added: We intend to utilize third party intermediaries for the
+Added: sale of our products to allow us to focus on our core competencies of exploration and extraction.
+Added: Mineral Properties
+Added: We also have 100%-ownership of early-stage projects and properties in other
+Added: minerals that are needed in the battery supply chain and high technology applications such as nickel, rare earths, graphite, and titanium.
+Added: We believe that the shift from fossil fuels to battery power will yield long-term opportunities for us not only in lithium but also in
+Added: the other critical and battery minerals.
Additionally,
−Removed: we have 100%-ownership of several mining concessions for gold and diamonds.
−Removed: Historically we have had revenues from mining and selling
−Removed: gold and diamonds.
−Removed: More recently we have had revenues from mining and selling industrial sand for the local construction industry, which
−Removed: is at the time of this Annual Report on Form 10-K (this “Report”) our primary source of revenues.
−Removed: Such endeavors have
−Removed: given us the critical management experience needed to take early-stage projects in Brazil from the exploration phase through successful
−Removed: licensing from regulators and to revenues.
−Removed: of the date of this Report, we also own 46.17% of the common shares of Apollo Resources Corporation (“Apollo Resources”),
−Removed: a private company currently primarily focused on the development of its initial iron mine, expected to start operations and revenues
−Removed: in early 2023.
−Removed: of the date of this Report, we also own approximately 24.56% of Jupiter Gold Corporation (“Jupiter Gold”), a company
−Removed: focused on the development of gold projects and of a quartzite mine, and whose common shares are quoted on the OTCQB under the symbol
−Removed: The quartzite mine is expected to start operations and revenues in 2022.
−Removed: results of operations from both Apollo Resources and Jupiter Gold are consolidated in our financial statements under US GAAP.
−Removed: the “Mineral Resources Company for the Green Energy Revolution” we are deeply committed to Environmental, Social, and Corporate
−Removed: Governance (“ESG”) causes.
−Removed: We have an ESG Chief who coordinates our efforts in these important matters.
−Removed: Within the last few
−Removed: years, we planted more than 6,000 trees of diverse types for the benefit of local populations in areas in which we operate and constructed
−Removed: over 1,000 small retention walls to preserve and enhance dirt access roads used by such communities.
−Removed: Separately, many of our work needs
−Removed: have been specifically delegated to firms owned or managed by women and minorities.
−Removed: is on the list of the 35 minerals considered critical to the economic and national security of the United States, as first published
+Added: we have 100%-ownership of several mining concessions for gold and diamonds, two of which also include industrial sand.
+Added: As our corporate
+Added: focus became our lithium properties and those of other critical minerals, we stopped alluvial gold and diamond exploration efforts in
+Added: 2018 and the sale of our industrial sand in 2022.
+Added: of the date of this Annual Report we also own:
+Added: (i) 45.11% of the common stock of Apollo Resources Corporation (“Apollo Resources”),
+Added: a private company with exploration projects for iron in Brazil, and primarily focused on the development of its initial iron mine, located
+Added: in the municipality of Rio Piracicaba in the state of Minas Gerais, for which it received in October 2022 a permit to mine from Agencia
+Added: Nacional de Mineracao (“ANM”, the Brazilian mining department) and awaits the operational license from Superintendencia do
+Added: Meio Ambiente (“SUPRAM”, the State of Minas Gerais environmental department) within the next 12 months and (ii) 28.72% of
+Added: Jupiter Gold Corporation (“Jupiter Gold”), a publicly-traded company with exploration projects for gold and a developing
+Added: quartzite quarry operation, all in Brazil, and whose common stock is quoted on the OTCQB under the symbol “JUPGF”.
+Added: The quartzite
+Added: mine is fully permitted by ANM and SUPRAM and is expected to start operations later in 2023
+Added: have determined that Apollo Resources and Jupiter Gold represent Variable Interest Entities (see our “Variable Interest Entities”
+Added: discussion on page [34] of this Annual Report).
+Added: As a result of such determination, the results of operations from both Apollo Resources
+Added: and Jupiter Gold are consolidated in our financial statements under the United States general accepted accounting principles (“U.S.
+Added: and cobalt are key battery minerals needed for the growth phase in EV production.
+Added: Cobalt is on the list of the 35 minerals considered
+Added: critical to the economic and national security of the United States as first published by the U.S.
Department of the Interior on May
−Removed: In June 2021, the U.S.
−Removed: Department of Energy published a report titled “National
−Removed: Blueprint for Lithium Batteries 2021-2030” (henceforth, the “NBLB Report”) which was developed by the Federal Consortium
−Removed: for Advanced Batteries (“FCAB”), a collaboration by the U.S.
−Removed: Departments of Energy, Defense, Commerce, and State.
−Removed: to the Report, one of the main goals of this U.S.
−Removed: government effort is to “secure U.S.
−Removed: access to raw materials for lithium batteries.”
−Removed: In the NBLB Report, Ms.
−Removed: Granholm, the U.S.
−Removed: Secretary of Energy, states:
−Removed: “Lithium-based batteries power our daily
−Removed: lives from consumer electronics to national defense.
−Removed: They enable electrification of the transportation sector and provide stationary
−Removed: grid storage, critical to developing the clean-energy economy.”
−Removed: NBLB Report summarizes as follows the U.S.
−Removed: government’s views on the needs for lithium and the expected growth of the lithium battery
−Removed: robust, secure, domestic industrial base for lithium-based batteries requires access to a reliable supply of raw, refined, and processed
−Removed: material inputs…”
−Removed: worldwide lithium battery market is expected to grow by a factor of 5 to 10 in the next decade.”
−Removed: Vehicle Demand
−Removed: growth in electric vehicles (“EVs”) will provide the greatest needs for lithium-based batteries The NBLB Report states:
−Removed: projects worldwide sales of 56 million passenger electric vehicles in 2040, of which 17% (about 9.6 million EVs) will be in the U.S.
−Removed: following graph shows the actual and estimated global annual sales of passenger EVs, including both Battery Electric Vehicles (“BEVs”)
−Removed: and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (“PHEVs”).
−Removed: NBLB Report (defined above).
−Removed: Original Source:
−Removed: BloombergNEF Long-Term Electric Vehicle Outlook 2019.
−Removed: a February 2021 report, Canalys, a global technology
−Removed: market analyst firm, states that global sales of EVs in 2020 increased by 39% year over
−Removed: year to 3.1 million units.
−Removed: This compares with a sales decline of 14% of the total passenger car market in 2020.
−Removed: Canalys forecasts that
−Removed: the number of EVs sold will rise to 30 million in 2028 and EVs will represent nearly half of all passenger cars sold globally by 2030.
−Removed: Long-Term Electric Vehicle Outlook 2021 report states:
−Removed: “The outlook for EV adoption is getting much brighter, due to a combination
−Removed: of more policy support, further improvements in battery density and cost, more charging infrastructure being built, and rising commitments
−Removed: from automakers.
−Removed: Passenger EV sales are set to increase sharply in the next few years, rising from 3.1 million in 2020 to 14 million
−Removed: Globally, this represents around 16% of passenger vehicle sales in 2025, but some countries achieve much higher shares.
−Removed: for example, EVs represent nearly 40% of total sales by 2025, while China – the world’s largest auto market – hits
−Removed: Storage Demand
−Removed: the lithium battery growth derived from grid storage demands, the NBLB Report states:
−Removed: “In addition to the EV market, grid storage
−Removed: uses of advanced batteries are also anticipated to grow, with Bloomberg projecting total global deployment to reach over 1,095 GW by
−Removed: 2040, growing substantially from 9 GW in 2018;” and “Bloomberg forecasts 3.2 million EV sales in the U.S.
−Removed: for 2028, and
−Removed: over 200 GW of lithium-ion battery-based grid storage deployed globally by 2028.
−Removed: With an average EV battery capacity of 100 kWh, 320
−Removed: GWh of domestic lithium-ion battery production capacity will be needed just to meet passenger EV demand.
−Removed: Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
−Removed: forecasts U.S.
−Removed: lithium-ion battery production capacity of 148 GWh by 2028 less than 50% of projected demand.”
−Removed: in Lithium Prices
−Removed: relevant to our goal to produce spodumene concentrate for sale, the chart below indicates the price of spodumene concentrate in USD/ton
−Removed: from February 2019 to February 2022.
+Added: In general, the greater the amount of nickel and cobalt, the greater the energy density of an EV battery, a factor that contributes
+Added: to the storage of more energy.
+Added: As a practical example of the importance of nickel and cobalt, EVs whose batteries have a higher energy
+Added: density can run more kilometers before a recharge is needed.
+Added: According to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence,
+Added: 72 mining projects with an average size of 42,500 tonnes will be required to meet battery demand for refined nickel by
of Our Opportunity
−Removed: Gerais Lithium Project
−Removed: Minas Gerais Lithium Project currently encompasses 44 mineral rights spread over approximately 45,456 acres (184 km 2 ).
−Removed: of our mineral rights are located adjacent to or near mineral rights that belong to a large publicly traded competitor company (“Competitor”)
−Removed: which has demonstrated through extensive drilling the presence of lithium deposits totaling over 20 million tons, according to its publicly-available
−Removed: The map below indicates our mineral rights in our Minas Gerais Lithium Project and those mineral rights that belong to the Competitor.
−Removed: exploratory work to date in some mineral rights in our Minas Gerais Lithium Project, including trenching and drilling with subsequent
−Removed: geochemical analysis of samples, has determined the existence of hard rock pegmatites with lithium mineralization.
−Removed: Given the proximity
−Removed: to areas of economically significant lithium deposits from the Competitor, our technical experts believe that one or more areas of our
−Removed: Minas Gerais Lithium Project may also contain similar lithium deposits.
−Removed: are currently focused on expanding and accelerating
−Removed: our exploration program leading to the identification and quantitative measurement of our prospective lithium deposits.
−Removed: Our exploratory
−Removed: program at the Minas Gerais Lithium Project is supervised by two lithium experts which meet the “Qualified Persons” definition
−Removed: under Regulation S-K 1300.
−Removed: Brazil Lithium Project
−Removed: Northeastern Brazil Lithium Project encompasses 7 mineral rights spread over approximately 14,621 acres (59 km 2 ) in the States
−Removed: of Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, both located in Brazil’s Northeastern region.
−Removed: We have identified pegmatites in many
−Removed: of our areas, and several of our mineral rights are located near to or adjacent to areas known to have spodumene, a lithium-bearing mineral.
−Removed: We plan to continue to explore our areas to assess as to whether we have any economic deposits.
+Added: own 15 mineral rights for nickel (including two mineral rights for both nickel and cobalt) totaling approximately 54,950 acres (222 km 2 ).
+Added: These mineral rights are divided in two sub-groups according to geography:
+Added: Nickel I Properties in the State of Goiás and Nickel
+Added: II Properties in the State of Piauí.
+Added: Several of our mineral rights are located near to or adjacent to areas of known nickel and
+Added: associated cobalt mineralization.
+Added: and associated cobalt mineralization often occurs as near-surface deposits hosted within a large complex of magnesium and iron rich
+Added: plutonic rocks, referred to as ultramafics, that originally formed in the earth’s lower crust and upper mantle.
+Added: In addition to
+Added: magnesium and iron, ultramafic rocks typically contain minor amounts of nickel along with lesser amounts of cobalt.
+Added: Tectonic uplift of
+Added: the ultramafic sequence followed by exposure to intense tropical weathering processes has resulted in the formation of a nickel and cobalt
+Added: enriched rock commonly referred to as nickel laterite.
+Added: Nickel laterite deposits currently account for 40% of global nickel production
+Added: are becoming an increasingly important source of nickel metal for world demand.
+Added: They typically occur as very large tonnage, low grade
+Added: deposits, and being close to the surface, are very amenable to open pit mining methods.
+Added: Nickel I property located in the Niquelandia district in north-central Goiás state has been Brazil’s national center of
+Added: commercial nickel production since the early 1980’s.
+Added: Here nickel laterite mineralization is reported to occur in nickel-bearing
+Added: iron oxides and clays which are processed via pyrometallurgical recovery methods.
+Added: Cobalt is recovered as a secondary by-product.
+Added: Nickel II property in southeastern Piauí state is located in the general area of a newly commissioned open pit mining operation
+Added: which commenced commercial production earlier this year.
+Added: Based on reports published by the mine operator, a publicly traded company,
+Added: nickel laterite mineralization in the area occurs as clay-poor, oxide rich material amenable to lower cost heap leach recovery methods.
+Added: This relatively new approach to nickel ore processing and recovery offers the potential for the commercial development of lower grade
+Added: resources that would otherwise be uneconomic using more conventional pyrometallurgical recovery methods.
+Added: plan to assess the potential of our nickel-cobalt properties through a systematic three-phase exploration approach.
+Added: The first phase will
+Added: involve a combination of analysis and interpretation of commercially available remote sensing satellite data, followed by geologic field
+Added: reconnaissance and regional scale geochemical stream sediment sampling to identify areas offering the best potential for new nickel-cobalt
+Added: Based on the results of the first phase, the second phase will involve a combination of more detailed geologic mapping,
+Added: geochemical soil and rock grid sampling, and airborne and ground-based geophysical surveys to identify and prioritize the most prospective
+Added: areas for drill targeting.
+Added: The third phase will involve first pass reconnaissance drilling of selected targets to test the presence and
+Added: distribution of prospective mineralization, with additional follow-up drilling to be conducted as results warrant.
rare earth elements (“REE”) are on the list of the 35 minerals considered critical to the economic and national security
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Light REEs (LREEs) are comprised of lanthanum through gadolinium (atomic numbers 57 through 64).
−Removed: Heavy REEs (“HREEs”) are comprised of terbium through lutetium (atomic numbers 65 through 71) and yttrium (atomic
−Removed: number 39), which has similar chemical and physical attributes to the HREEs.
−Removed: Neodymium and praseodymium are key critical materials in
−Removed: the manufacturing of magnets that have the highest magnetic strength among commercially available magnets and enable high energy density
−Removed: and high energy efficiency in diverse uses.
−Removed: Dysprosium and terbium are key critical materials often added to the magnet alloys to increase
−Removed: the operating temperature.
−Removed: HREEs tend to be less abundant and more expensive than LREEs.
+Added: Heavy REEs (HREEs) are
+Added: comprised of terbium through lutetium (atomic numbers 65 through 71) and yttrium (atomic number 39), which has similar chemical and physical
+Added: attributes to the HREEs.
+Added: Neodymium and praseodymium are key critical materials in the manufacturing of magnets that have the highest
+Added: magnetic strength among commercially available magnets and enable high energy density and high energy efficiency in diverse uses.
+Added: and terbium are key critical materials often added to the magnet alloys to increase the operating temperature.
+Added: HREEs tend to be less
+Added: abundant and more expensive than LREEs.
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whether we have any economic deposits.
−Removed: Our detailed exploration plans and their associated costs have not been finalized at this time.
is on the list of the 35 minerals considered critical to the economic and national security of the United States as first published by
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It has widespread use in high-technology and aerospace applications.
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own seven mineral rights for titanium totaling approximately 22,050 acres (89 km 2 ).
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We plan to explore our areas to assess as to whether we have any economic deposits.
−Removed: detailed exploration plans and their associated costs have not been finalized at this time.
is on the list of the 35 minerals considered critical to the economic and national security of the United States as first published by
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discussed above.
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+Added: According to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, to meet demand for anode materials, an estimated 97 natural flake graphite
+Added: mines will need to be built by 2035, assuming an average size of 56,000 tonnes a year and no contribution from recycling.
own three mineral rights for graphite totaling approximately 13,766 acres (56 km 2 ).
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We plan to explore our areas to assess as to whether we have any economic deposits.
−Removed: exploration plans and their associated costs have not been finalized at this time.
−Removed: and cobalt are key battery metals needed for the growth phase in EV production.
−Removed: Cobalt is on the list of the 35 minerals considered critical
−Removed: to the economic and national security of the United States as first published by the U.S.
−Removed: Department of the Interior on May 18, 2018.
−Removed: In general, the greater the amount of nickel and cobalt, the greater the energy density of an EV battery, a factor that contributes to
−Removed: the storage of more energy.
−Removed: As a practical example of the importance of nickel and cobalt, EVs whose batteries have a higher energy density
−Removed: can run more kilometers before a recharge is needed.
−Removed: of Our Opportunity
−Removed: own four mineral rights for nickel and cobalt totaling approximately 7,509 acres (30 km 2 ).
−Removed: These mineral rights are divided in two sub-groups according to geography:
−Removed: Nickel/Cobalt I Properties in the State of Goiás and
−Removed: Nickel/Cobalt II Properties in the State of Piauí.
−Removed: Several of our mineral rights are located near to or adjacent to areas known
−Removed: to have nickel and/or cobalt deposits.
−Removed: We plan to explore our areas to assess as to whether we have any economic deposits.
−Removed: exploration plans and their associated costs have not been finalized at this time.
−Removed: (though our partial ownership of Apollo Resources Corporation)
+Added: (Through Our Partial Ownership of Apollo Resources Corporation)
Historically,
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iron ore is used in steel manufacturing.
−Removed: Brazil exported over $20 billion in iron ore in 2019 and is the second biggest iron ore producer
−Removed: and exporter in the world, after Australia.
−Removed: Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, iron ore prices reached a 6-year high in 2021
−Removed: primarily fueled by demand from China, the largest importer, while demand from India continues to increase, according to Trading Economics,
−Removed: a market intelligence firm.
+Added: Brazil is the second biggest iron ore producer and exporter in the world, after Australia.
+Added: the COVID-19 pandemic, iron ore prices reached a six-year high in 2021 primarily fueled by demand from China, the largest importer, while
+Added: demand from India continues to increase, according to Trading Economics, a market intelligence firm.
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Apollo Resources currently owns 56,290 acres of mineral rights for
−Removed: iron distributed in six projects, five of which are in early stage while its Iron Quadrangle Project is being advanced towards an iron
−Removed: mine, expected to begin operations during the fourth quarter of 2022.
−Removed: As its name indicates, this project is located within the well-known
−Removed: Iron Quadrangle mining district, one of the premier iron producing regions in the world.
−Removed: Resources acquired from a third-party in 2020 for the equivalent of $925,000 the 641-acre mineral right where its Iron Quadrangle Project
−Removed: is now located.
−Removed: This mineral right sits immediately adjacent to a producing iron mine from a global iron producing company.
+Added: iron distributed in six projects, five of which are in early stage while its Rio Piracicaba Project in Brazil’s well-known Iron
+Added: Quadrangle mining district is being advanced towards an iron mine, expected to begin operations in 2024 (the “Rio Piracicaba Project”).
+Added: The Iron Quadrangle is one of the premier iron producing regions in the world.
+Added: 2020, Apollo Resources acquired from a third-party 641-acre mineral right where its Rio Piracicaba Project is now located.
+Added: right sits immediately adjacent to Agua Limpa, a producing iron mine owned and operated by Vale S.A.
the first and second quarters of 2021, detailed drilling and trenching under the supervision of iron geologists was carried out in approximately
−Removed: 10% of the mineral right area encompassing the Iron Quadrangle Project.
−Removed: 2021, SGS-Geosol, an independent analytical laboratory and technical advisory firm, conducted initial studies on the processing route
−Removed: for a representative sample of iron ore collected from deeper layers during drilling at the Iron Quadrangle Project.
−Removed: The initial results,
−Removed: obtained by a combination of crushing and dry magnetic separation, with no water involvement, has been concentration to 64.4% iron.
−Removed: level of iron on a commercial product would constitute what is known in the industry as a “premium” product.
−Removed: 2021, Geoline, an independent engineering and environmental licensing consultancy, worked on detailed technical studies, both in “dry”
−Removed: and “wet” climate seasons of the year, needed to file Apollo Resources’ standard petition to the applicable local regulatory
−Removed: body for an operation license for an open pit iron mire at its Iron Quadrangle Project.
−Removed: to the aforementioned independent technical report, the primary mineable iron ore at the Iron Quadrangle Project exists on a continual
−Removed: basis, and almost without interruptions, from the surface down to a level of approximately 150 feet.
−Removed: Apollo Resources’ technical
−Removed: team believes ore retrieval should be a straightforward process though standard open pit excavation.
−Removed: As of the date of this Report,
−Removed: Apollo Resources expects to have its first iron ore revenues from its Iron Quadrangle Project mine during the first quarter of 2023.
−Removed: While selling raw iron ore is the easiest pathway to cash flows, Apollo Resources is also considering verticalization of its business,
−Removed: and processing of its iron ore to a higher concentration product prior to sale at possibly substantially higher margins.
−Removed: by the initial result of 64.4% iron obtained by SGS-Geosol from project samples, there is a possibility of production of a “premium”
−Removed: iron product.
−Removed: of the date of this Report, Brazil Minerals owns 46.17% of the common shares of Apollo Resources.
−Removed: (though our partial ownership of Jupiter Gold Corporation)
+Added: 10% of the mineral right area encompassing the Rio Piracicaba Project.
+Added: Subsequently, a Qualified Person for iron, as the term is defined
+Added: in Regulation S-K 1300, worked on the analysis and interpretation of the geotechnical work performed.
+Added: Technical Report Summary of the Rio Piracicaba Project (the “Rio Piracicaba TRS”) prepared in accordance with the
+Added: requirements of Regulation S-K 1300 is included as Exhibit 96.1 to this Annual Report.
+Added: The effective date of Rio Piracicaba TRS is
+Added: March 30, 2022.
+Added: This report was prepared by Orlando Garcia Rocha Filho, a principal at RCS Geologia e Meio Ambiente Ltda., and
+Added: Volodymyr Myadzel, PhD, an independent consultant at the time, and currently a member of
+Added: our internal lithium geological team.
+Added: With respect to the Rio Piracicaba TRS, Mr.
+Added: Rocha Filho and Dr, Myadzel are Qualified Persons
+Added: for Iron according to Regulation S - K 1300.
+Added: Resources has full and titled ownership of the mineral right in which the Rio Piracicaba Project is being developed and 100%-ownership
+Added: of such project.
+Added: Therefore, the resources presented in the Rio Piracicaba TRS are attributable to Apollo Resources’ interest in
+Added: such property.
+Added: A summary table for each class of mineral resource (measured, indicated, and inferred) as found in the Rio Piracicaba
+Added: TRS is also included below:
+Added: Mineral Resource
+Added: Mineral Resource
+Added: Mineral Resource
+Added: - Rio Piracicaba Project
+Added: following disclosures apply to the summary table above:
+Added: “Mineral Resources” is defined in accordance with the requirements of Regulation S-K 1300.
+Added: Mineral Resources are estimated at a cut-off grade of 20% iron.
+Added: Mineral Resources are estimated using a long-term iron ore price of US$90 per dry metric tonne for the Platts/IODEX 62% iron fines CFR
+Added: China, and US$/BRL exchange rate of 5.25.
+Added: Reasonable prospects for economic extraction were determined by benchmarking similar operations and developing a 20% iron cut-off grade
+Added: based on operating costs.
+Added: The effective date is March 30, 2022.
+Added: specific point of reference for the mineral resources estimated in the Rio Piracicaba Project has the following coordinates:
+Added: 56’ 24.40” S and 43 o 12’ 7.58” W.
+Added: The specific point of reference is also identified in the
+Added: October 2022, Apollo Resources received from ANM, an initial permit to commercially mine its Rio Piracicaba Project.
+Added: During 2021 and
+Added: part of 2022, all studies required for the operational licensing of an iron mine have been completed and such permit application
+Added: submitted by Apollo Resources to SUPRAM, where the analysis of such request takes place, may take an additional 12 months from the
+Added: date of this Annual Report.
+Added: of the date of this Report, Atlas Lithium owns 45.11% of the common stock of Apollo Resources.
+Added: (Through Our Subsidiary Jupiter Gold Corporation)
is a very hard rock composed predominantly of an interlocking mosaic of quartz crystals.
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sought after as a higher-end substitute to granite in kitchen countertops and tiles.
−Removed: Brazil has a flourishing quartzite mining industry
+Added: Brazil has a robust quartzite mining industry
centered in the neighboring the States of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo with smaller producers being the norm.
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of Minas Gerais in Brazil, in a region known for quartzite mining.
−Removed: 2021, Jupiter Gold studied the Quartzite Project with detailed drilling and a preliminary estimate of a quartzite deposit was obtained.
−Removed: In 2021, Yan Taffner Binda, a mining engineer with vast experience in quartzite
−Removed: who meets the “Qualified Person” criteria under Regulation S-K 1300, prepared the mining plan for an open pit quarry at the
−Removed: Quartzite Project.
−Removed: An initial mining license from the Brazilian mining department, has been obtained.
+Added: 2021, Jupiter Gold studied the Quartzite Project with detailed drilling, and a preliminary volumetric estimate of a deposit was
+Added: In 2021, Yan Taffner Binda, a mining engineer with vast experience in quartzite, who meets the definition of a Qualified
+Added: Person in Regulation S-K 1300, prepared the operational plan for an open pit quarry at the Quartzite Project.
+Added: An initial mining license
+Added: from ANM has been obtained.
2021, Geoline, an independent engineering and environmental licensing consultancy, performed the field studies needed to file Jupiter
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of the quartzite anticipated to be mined range from $1,200 to $2,000 per cubic meter.
−Removed: of the date of this Report, Brazil Minerals owns 24.56% of the common shares of Jupiter Gold.
−Removed: (though our partial ownership of Jupiter Gold Corporation)
−Removed: it is estimated that, of the gold being produced, 50% is used in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.
−Removed: Brazil has been a
−Removed: gold producer for over two hundred years ago.
−Removed: According to the World Gold Council, in 2020 Brazil produced 107 tons of gold and was the
−Removed: 7 th largest gold producer country.
−Removed: Minas Gerais was the largest gold producing state
−Removed: in the country, accounting for around 34% of the gold output that year according to Statista, a market intelligence firm.
+Added: In December 2022, Jupiter Gold received the operational
+Added: license for its quartzite mine, and plans to begin operations in 2023.
+Added: of the date of this Report, we own 28.72% of the common stock of Jupiter Gold.
+Added: (Through Our Subsidiary Jupiter Gold Corporation)
+Added: has been a gold producer for over 200 years.
+Added: According to the World Gold Council, in 2021 Brazil produced 90.1 tons of gold
+Added: and was the 14 th largest gold producer country.
+Added: Minas Gerais was the largest gold producing
+Added: state in Brazil, accounting for over half of the country’s production in 2021, according to Statista, a market intelligence firm.
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while one of them, the “Alpha Project,” has been preliminarily researched and is being developed towards a gold mine.
−Removed: The Alpha Project
−Removed: is located in the state of Minas Gerais at the eastern edge of the Iron Quadrangle mining district, the number one gold-producing region
+Added: Alpha Project is located in the State of Minas Gerais at the eastern edge of the Iron Quadrangle mining district, the number one gold-producing
+Added: region in Brazil.
Gold’s 100%-owned Alpha Project encompasses 31,650 acres distributed in twelve mineral rights for gold.
Approximately 2% of this
−Removed: total area has been studied over fifteen years ago by a prior owner, by drilling superficial terrain layers of saprolite and colluvium
−Removed: and identifying gold in multiple targets.
−Removed: In 2020, detailed trenching under the supervision
−Removed: of gold geologists was carried out in approximately 2% of the mineral right area encompassing the Alpha Project.
−Removed: In 2021, Oxford Geoconsultants,
−Removed: a technical consulting firm with a geologist that meets the “Qualified Person” criteria for gold under Regulation S-K 1300,
−Removed: released its independent technical report on the project.
−Removed: In 2021, RCS, a technical consulting
−Removed: firm with a geologist that meets the “Qualified Person” criteria for gold under Regulation S-K 1300, has indicated that
−Removed: the gold deposits at the Alpha Project are of greenstone belt type.
−Removed: Further work is ongoing at the Alpha Project to expand the knowledge
−Removed: of and the measured size of the deposit.
−Removed: As of the date of this Report, Brazil Minerals owns 24.56% of
−Removed: the common shares of Jupiter Gold.
+Added: total area has been studied over 15 years ago by a prior owner, by drilling superficial terrain layers of saprolite and colluvium and
+Added: identifying gold in multiple targets.
+Added: The technical report produced at that time under the ANM standard had an estimated gold mineralization
+Added: for the small area of the deposit in which work was performed.
+Added: 2020, detailed trenching under the supervision of gold geologists was carried out in approximately 2% of the mineral right area encompassing
+Added: the Alpha Project.
+Added: In 2021, Oxford Geoconsultants, a technical consulting firm with a geologist that meets the Qualified Person definition
+Added: of Regulation S-K 1300, released an independent technical report on the project.
+Added: an independent advisory firm with a gold geologist that meets the Qualified Person definition of Regulation S-K 1300, has preliminarily
+Added: indicated that the gold deposits at the Alpha Project are of greenstone belt type.
+Added: Further work is planned for 2023 and 2024at the Alpha
+Added: Project to expand the knowledge of and the measured size of the deposit.
+Added: of the date of this Report, Atlas Lithium owns 28.72% of the common stock of Jupiter Gold.
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where gold and diamonds have been mined for more than 200 years.
−Removed: own an alluvial diamond and gold processing plant which was built by the prior owner at an estimated cost of $2.5 million.
+Added: predecessor owner of one of our current mining concessions for gold and diamonds was Valdiaam, a TSXV-listed company.
+Added: Such company performed
+Added: detailed drilling and other studies leading to the publication of technical reports.
+Added: own an alluvial diamond and gold processing plant which was built by such prior owner at an estimated cost of $2.5 million.
of our knowledge, this plant is the largest such type of alluvial recovery plant in Brazil.
−Removed: are not currently engaged in alluvial diamond and gold mining as we are focusing our limited capital and team on lithium and other strategic
−Removed: minerals because of the exceptional growth drivers for these minerals at the present time.
−Removed: mine and sell sand for construction usage from a sand mine located on the banks of the Jequitinhonha River in the State of Minas Gerais.
−Removed: January 19, 2022, Diário Oficial da União (the Brazilian Government’s official
−Removed: gazette) published the formal authorization for operations at our second sand mine in another one of our mineral rights.
−Removed: Such authorization
−Removed: permits us to mine and sell sand for the next ten years, after which we can apply for renewal an unlimited number of times.
−Removed: operation, sand retrieval will be by a dredge boat on the river.
−Removed: Since the logistics of this operation are simple and sand is continuously
−Removed: replaced by the river, this mine could become an attractive source of revenues.
−Removed: We plan to have this new sand mine online during the
−Removed: second quarter of 2022.
−Removed: Production and Sales
−Removed: expect the demand for our minerals, once in production, to be facilitated by Brazil’s strong mining tradition and its substantial
−Removed: annual trade with China, the United States, and the European Union.
−Removed: We intend on utilizing intermediaries for sales as to focus on our
−Removed: core competencies of exploration and extraction.
+Added: are not currently engaged in alluvial diamond and gold mining operations as we are focusing our limited capital and team on lithium because
+Added: of its exceptional growth in demand at the present time.
do not have any material dependence on any raw materials or raw material supplier.
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Regulation and Compliance
−Removed: regulation in Brazil is carried out by the mining department, a federal entity, and each state in Brazil has an office of this federal
−Removed: For each mineral right that we own, we file any paperwork related to it in the office of the mining department in the state in
−Removed: which such mineral right is located.
−Removed: We believe that we maintain a good relationship with the mining department and that our methods
−Removed: of monitoring are adequate for our current needs.
−Removed: mining department normally inspects our operations once a year via an unannounced visit.
−Removed: We estimate that it costs us $25,000-$50,000
−Removed: annually to maintain compliance with various mining regulations.
+Added: regulation in Brazil is carried out by ANM, a federal entity, with offices in each state in Brazil..
+Added: For each mineral right that we
+Added: own, we file the required paperwork with the ANM office of the state in which such mineral right is located.
+Added: We believe that we
+Added: maintain a good relationship with ANM and that our methods of monitoring are adequate for our current needs.
+Added: For mineral rights
+Added: which have an operating mine, ANM will normally inspect such projects once a year through an unannounced visit.
Environmental
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regulation in Brazil is carried out by a state-level agency, which may have multiple offices, one for each region of the state.
−Removed: mineral right that we own, we file any paperwork related to it in the local office of the environmental agency that has the applicable
−Removed: geographical jurisdiction.
−Removed: We believe that we maintain a good relationship with the offices of the environmental agency and believe that
−Removed: our methods of monitoring are adequate for our current needs.
−Removed: environmental agency normally inspects our operations once every one or two years which is the standard practice for companies in good
−Removed: We estimate that it costs us $25,000-$50,000 annually to maintain compliance with various environmental regulations.
−Removed: disturbance from any open pit mining performed by us is in full compliance with our mining plan as approved by the local regulatory agencies.
+Added: instance, in Minas Gerais State, such agency is called SUPRAM.
+Added: For each mineral right that we own, after sufficient exploration work
+Added: has been conducted, we may apply for operational permitting towards mining by filing any such paperwork with the local office of
+Added: the environmental agency that has the applicable geographical jurisdiction.
+Added: We believe that we maintain a good relationship with the
+Added: offices of the environmental agency and believe that our methods of monitoring are adequate for our current needs.
+Added: The environmental
+Added: agency normally inspects our operations once every one or two years which is the standard practice for companies in good
+Added: disturbance from any open pit mining performed by us is in full compliance with our mining plan as approved by the local regulatory
We regularly restore areas that have been exploited by us.
−Removed: The current environmental regulations state that after all mining has ceased
−Removed: (however long that may take), there would still be five years of available time for any necessary recuperation to be performed.
−Removed: and recovery processing for diamonds and gold does not use any chemical products.
−Removed: Tests are conducted regularly and there are no records
−Removed: of groundwater contamination that has occurred to date.
−Removed: and Independent Contractors
−Removed: of December 31, 2021, we had the equivalent of 11 full-time employees.
−Removed: We also retain consultants to provide specific services deemed
−Removed: We consider our employee relations to be
+Added: The current environmental regulations state that for a period
+Added: of five years after all mining operations have ceased (however long that may take), we would still be required to perform any
+Added: necessary recuperation work.
+Added: Environmental,
+Added: Social and Governance
+Added: are committed to Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (“ESG”) causes.
+Added: Our Chief of Environmental, Social and Corporate
+Added: Governance coordinates our efforts in these important matters.
+Added: We believe that our efforts make a difference in the communities in which
+Added: For example, in the period from 2018 to 2020e planted more than 6,000 trees of diverse types for the benefit of local populations
+Added: in areas in which we operate.
+Added: During this same period, we also constructed over 1,000 small retention walls to preserve and enhance dirt
+Added: access roads used by such communities.
+Added: Our current efforts are focused on hiring workers from communities near our project areas.
+Added: such communities have high levels of unemployment and we thus believe that we are making a positive contribution.
and Year of Organization & History to Date
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From inception until December
−Removed: we were focused on the software business, which was discontinued when the current management team and business focus began.
+Added: 18, 2012, we were focused on the software business, which business was discontinued after entering into a Contribution Agreement with
+Added: Brazil Mining, Inc.
+Added: (“Brazil Mining”), pursuant to which, in exchange for 51% of the outstanding shares of common stock of
+Added: the Company, Brazil Mining contributed to the Company by way of an Assignment of Mineral Rights, certain mineral exploration rights.
+Added: Since then, our management team has been focused on the exploration and development of certain mineral rights in Brazil.
+Added: In October 2022,
+Added: the Company changed its name from “Brazil Minerals, Inc.” to “Atlas Lithium Corporation.” On January 12, 2023,
+Added: the Company completed its firm underwritten public offering of 776,250 shares of the Company’s common stock (which includes the
+Added: shares subject to the overallotment option, exercised by the underwriter in full), for aggregate gross proceeds of $4,657,500, prior
+Added: to deducting any underwriting discounts, commissions, and other offering expenses.
+Added: Our common stock began trading on the Nasdaq Capital
+Added: Market under the ticker symbol “ATLX” on January 10, 2023.
are not a party to any material legal proceedings.
−Removed: maintain a website at www.brazil-minerals.com.
+Added: maintain a website at www.atlas-lithium.com.
We make available free of charge, through the Public Filings section of the Investors
tab on our website, our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K, and all amendments
−Removed: to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”),
−Removed: as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange Commission
−Removed: The information on our website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part hereof or incorporated into this
−Removed: or any of our other filings with the SEC.
+Added: to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, as soon as reasonably practicable after
+Added: such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
+Added: information on our website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part hereof or incorporated into this or any of our other
+Added: filings with the SEC.
SEC filings are available from the SEC’s internet website at www.sec.gov which contains reports, proxy and information statements
and other information regarding issuers that file electronically.
−Removed: These reports, proxy statements and other information may also be inspected
−Removed: and copied at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C.
+Added: of the date of this Annual Report, we have 30 full-time employees and 3 part time employees.
+Added: None of our employees are represented by
+Added: labor unions or covered by collective bargaining agreements.
+Added: We consider our relationship with our employees to be good.
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