• Canadian marijuana market seen as C$2.8 billion by CY2020, a 30% YOY gain, research study projects.
• Extracts/oil from cannabis (CBD) sales by CY2020 will surpass dried marijuana by wide margin.
• Marijuana seen as being fully legalized in Canada by July 2018.

Algae Dynamics Corp. (OTCQB: ADYNF) sees opportunity and greater market share in a soon to be legalized marijuana industry in Canada, where registered clients are estimated to grow to 715,000 by CY2020, cumulatively purchasing 124,443 kilograms (kg) of dried medical marijuana annually, a 31% YOY increase, a study by Mackie Research found (http://dtn.fm/Fa7vW). If the Colorado model remains true, some 45% of those buyers will switch by 2018 from dried medical marijuana to marijuana extracts/oil, creating a market of 239,998 liters in extracts/oil alone.

That’s good news for ADYNF, a producer of health products and nutraceuticals that utilizes extraction of cannabis, hemp, and algae oils in its products. It is a development-stage company with a portfolio of intellectual property and a signed agreement with a Licensed Producer. ADYNF is an Ontario, Canada-based company, but it is publicly traded in the U.S. Because it is located in Canada, it is free of all exposure to any U.S. federal regulations or restrictions of cannabis.

Legalization of marijuana in Canada is widely expected by July 2018 (http://dtn.fm/To4tc). If that happens, Mackie research projects that the Canadian market for both dried marijuana and extracts/oil would be an estimated C2.8 billion in CY2018, a 30% YOY increase. By that year, sales of extracts/oil would surpass revenues from dried marijuana by C1.687 billion to C1.113 billion.

ADYNF collaborates with the University of Waterloo and University of Western Ontario in research, formulations and product development, with the company maintaining patent rights on the research findings. The goal is to develop premium, patented health products.

Most recently, in collaboration with the University of Western Ontario, it was found that higher levels of the brain chemical GABA can help reverse in adults the negative effects of THC-infused marijuana ingested when in adolescence. The findings, published in Nature Scientific Reports (http://dtn.fm/J2dqa), earned ADYNF international press recognition.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.AlgaeDynamics.com

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• The global online travel market is estimated to reach $1,091 billion by 2022
• Growth of online travel driven by social media, the Internet, disposable income, mobility
• Direct spending by domestic and international travelers in U.S. averaged $2.7 billion a day
• Proprietary back-end software opens distinctive online world travel portal that saves customers money

Cache Elite Inc. (OTC: ILUS) is a forward-thinking technology and service provider. The company provides homeowners with the latest in 3D designs, decorative hardware (http://www.eliteknobs.com), and travel and vacation services. Its foray into travel-related services can be found at the TripWitz website (http://www.tripwitz.com) where its proprietary back-end software, called Internet Travel Management Software, helps TripWitz provide its customers with a distinctive, cost-effective and perfect travel experience that sets it apart from other online travel agencies such as Expedia and Travelocity.

TripWitz provides real-time, dynamically packaged vacation quotes that include airfare, hotels, villas, ground transportation and activities. Every client searching for a smarter way to travel will find TripWitz is able to cut out the stress and frustrations found with other online travel agents. The company provides its intuitive travel services to clients searching vacations possibilities at more than 20,000 destinations around the globe.

TripWitz contracts with over 500,000 hotels and connects with the world’s airlines through Google’s ITA Gateway software that allows for advanced availability solutions to satisfy millions of queries per second at the lowest possible fares. Seasonal rate fluctuations for many travel services, including ground transportation options, are included in the company’s software, giving clients the best possible rates. TripWitz prides itself on giving users a friendly vacation experience that includes access to an experienced vacation destination specialist. Customers are never left to fend for themselves at any point of their vacation experience. TripWitz is also accepting Bitcoins, the international cryptocurrency, as payment for not only flights but vacations as well.

A new report published by Allied Market Research projects the global online travel market will reach an estimated $1,091 billion by 2022, with the Asia-Pacific region expected to witness the highest growth during the forecast period. Travelers are looking for sound help in making travel decisions that fit within their budgets. Younger travelers, those within the 21-31 year age bracket, are seen as a more mobile generation, using social media and smartphones for many of their travel planning and booking needs.

TripWitz is an accredited member of the CCRA (Travel Commerce Network), which connects the company to over 180,000 properties worldwide. TripWitz is also an ARC approval agency. ARC accredited agencies are the most select group of dedicated professionals in the U.S. travel industry and are recognized as having met stringent financial, personnel and security requirements.

The official press release announcing the recent launch of TripWitz can be found at the following link: Cache Elite Inc. (ILUS) Unveils New Venture Into the $341 Billion Travel Industry

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.CacheElite.com

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• Demand for Electric Vehicles is Growing
• Lithium Producer Valuations are on the Rise
• Junior Valuations Likely to Follow

The die is cast. There is no turning back the legion of electric vehicles (EVs) now making inroads in our cities. Americans are warming up to the idea of driving EVs. As a result, EV sales, running at a rate well above 40 percent compared to 2016, could reach 200,000 in 2017. Tesla, of course, is in the vanguard of this EV invasion, followed closely by General Motors (GM) and Toyota; but practically every other auto manufacturer, including BMW, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes, Nissan, Porsche, Volkswagen and Volvo, has gotten on board the EV wagon. This upsurge in EV sales is driving demand for automotive batteries and the lithium that powers them, which makes the lithium properties held by 92 Resources Corp. (TSX.V: NTY) (OTCQB: RGDCF) (FSE: R9G2) increasingly precious resources.

A recent article on NetworkNewsWire highlights how Lithium is Fuelling the New Millennium (http://dtn.fm/gZV5F). Apart from its use in automobiles, lithium is an essential component of the batteries that power the 8 million smart phones and other mobile devices now in use around the globe. Consequently, while the hunger for lithium will fluctuate in the short term; in the longer term, it is only likely to increase, as market signals indicate. Valuations of the leading lithium producers have been rising steadily. FMC Corp (NYSE: FMC) has appreciated by 87% over the past year; Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (NYSE: SQM) has shot up by over 109% and Albemarle Corporation (NYSE: ALB) has climbed some 62%.

As stock prices of the senior mining companies fully encapsulate the promising outlook for lithium, it is only a matter of time before the attention turns to junior exploration companies like 92 Resources. The company presently holds two lithium rich properties, at Hidden Lake and at their Corvette Property in Quebec. The Corvette Property is geologically situated within the Guyer Greenstone Belt and consists of 76 claims, totaling 3,891 hectares. The Corvette project has returned high-grade samples of 3.48% and 7.32% Li20 from spodumene bearing pegmatite exposed at surface. The Hidden Lake Lithium Property, located approximately 40 km northeast of the city of Yellowknife, NT, consists of two mineral claims, totaling approximately 1,100 hectares. It is highly prospective for spodumene-bearing lithium pegmatites, with samples indicating between 1.37% and 3.01% Li2O. The very high grades of lithium have been attributed to observed concentrations of coarse-grained spodumene and crystals of up to 36 inches long were also noted, with visual estimates across the dyke(s) in some places of 20 to 35%.

However, there’s more to 92 Resources than Hidden Lake and Corvette. The company recently acquired three new properties, believing it’s critical to maintain a pipeline of additional high quality, early staged lithium pegmatite projects, each with the potential as stand-alone properties. The new deposits are sited at Corvette, Eastmain, and Lac du Beryl, and consist of 115 mineral claims on a combined 14,710 acres, all rich in pegmatite. Pegmatite is a type of crystal-heavy igneous rock, and is a good source of ‘hard rock’ lithium, which represents about one-third of all global reserves.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.92Resources.com

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• Delivery technology with application to all non-psychoactive cannabinoids
• Company is an enabler rather than competitor to hemp oil producers
• Revenue from licensing DehydraTECH oral digestion technology

Thanks to Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (CSE: LXX) (OTCQB: LXRP), there’s no need for a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. This innovative biotech has developed technology that masks the strong taste and odor of hemp oil products, eschewing the need for artificial sweeteners, which tend to come with their own fallout to heart and health. Lexaria’s DehydraTECH oral digestion technology is a ‘back office’ process that solves the taste and odor issues that confront all hemp oil producers. With the hemp oil market set to grow 38 percent annually for the near future, Lexaria is well positioned to benefit from the expansion as an enabler rather than competitor. The company intends to license its technology to hemp oil producers, whose numbers continue to rise, and has already tightened its grip on the market with a number of patent filings and registrations.

Hemp might be palatable to a troglodyte, but since it ‘tastes like a handful of grass and dirt’, according to the ‘Made by Hemp’ blog (http://dtn.fm/y1OII), a modern homo sapien, accustomed to his burger and fries, is unlikely to find it palatable. The obvious solution is to complement the intake of hemp with sugars or sweeteners. However, while sugars occurring naturally in fruits and other foods will usually pose no health problem, processed sugar and artificial sweeteners are quite the opposite. “Refined, concentrated sugar consumed in large amounts rapidly increases blood glucose and insulin levels, increases triglycerides, inflammatory mediators and oxygen radicals, and with them, the risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses,” according to Harvard Health (http://dtn.fm/UhVt0). Moreover, artificial sweeteners can be addictive. One pre-clinical study worryingly demonstrated that rodents, when given a choice between intravenous cocaine and oral saccharine, mostly chose the saccharine.

The prospects for Lexaria’s DehydraTECH technology are decidedly upbeat. According to this Forbes piece (http://dtn.fm/CbE4N), the hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) market is growing at a steady clip, citing statistics by the Hemp Business Journal that show sales of $90 million in 2015 rising to $450 million by 2020. That 38% CAGR will, undoubtedly, be boosted if and when legalization of recreational cannabis becomes a reality in Canada on July 1, 2018. Lexaria is poised to ride that wave to the crest. At present, the company is in negotiations with major cannabinoid companies to license its technology. The smallest deal with any one of these could increase revenues by over $1 million; the largest could increase them by much, much more, as noted by CEO Chris Bunka in a recent interview (http://dtn.fm/mu1ZI). Since Lexaria is employing a lucrative licensing model that is likely to yield 90-100% of revenues as profit, the bottom line won’t be far below the revenue figure. The company expects to have its first major agreement wrapped up by the end of the year.

Presently, Lexaria is the only company in the world that has been awarded a patent for the improved (oral or ingestible, including pills) delivery of all non-psychoactive cannabinoids. Patents have been awarded in the U.S. and Australia and are pending in 40 more countries. This puts the company in the unusually advantageous position of owning proprietary technology that can deliver a vast range of non-psychoactive cannabinoid-based drugs. Rather than being a competitor to clinical stage biotech companies, Lexaria is an enabler by offering its molecular delivery technology for licensing.

The results are beginning to show. So far in 2017, revenues have exceeded the total for all of 2016. That trend is likely to continue, since Lexaria’s DehydraTECH technology offers oral digestion of hemp oil in a most delightful way.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.LexariaEnergy.com

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• Global games industry to reach $108.9 billion this year
• Mobile segment accounts for 42 percent of market, or $46.1 billion
• AppSwarm offers investors the chance to tap into mobile game and app development segment via partnerships with developers

With the global games market growing steadily every year, the number of investment opportunities available in this multibillion dollar industry are also on the rise. Typically dominated by venture capital firms and billionaire investments, this fast-growing, highly lucrative industry also presents unique opportunities for regular investors, with the help of companies such as AppSwarm, Inc. (OTC: SWRM), an innovative incubation acceleration and technology development firm.

Marking a 7.8 percent growth since last year, the global games market is expected to reach $108.9 billion in 2017, generated by roughly 2.2 billion games worldwide, according to the latest Global Games Market Report by Newzoo (http://dtn.fm/g7Tzi). Roughly 87 percent of the global market is held by digital game revenues, accounting for $94.4 billion.

The most lucrative segment remains mobile gaming, which stands at 42 percent of the market, or $46.1 billion. According to the report, the tablet and smartphone gaming apps segment is growing at a rate of 19 percent year over year, a trend that’s expected to continue in the future. It is estimated that by 2020, mobile gaming will cover half of the global gaming market, or approximately $64.9 billion of an industry totaling $128.5 billion in revenues, per the Newzoo report.

The Asia-Pacific region is responsible for 47 percent of total gaming revenues this year, being expected to generate $51.2 billion. The largely mobile Chinese market will cover one quarter of all global game revenues and is projected to reach $27.5 billion in 2017. The second-largest region is North America, with revenues of $27 billion this year, most ($25.1 billion) of which are generated by the U.S. Europe comes third, with $26.2 billion this year, while Latin America closes the ranking with $4.4 billion and an impressive 13.9 percent increase since last year, the highest rate among all regions.

With a significant portion of global gaming revenues generated by mobile apps, there are multiple investment opportunities available in the field of mobile app and game development, funding and marketing via partnerships with developers, according to AppSwarm. Despite the multiple opportunities present, there are very few companies actually focusing on this kind of investment, something that AppSwarm intends to change by offering regular investors a chance to take part in a massive and fast-growing industry.

The company is more than an incubator; it partners with developers through marketing partnerships, royalty agreements, joint ventures and purchase agreements to provide them with all the support they need to complete their products and release them on the market (http://dtn.fm/2Tcsj). With a focus on mobile gaming and apps, the company provides all resources needed for engagement, retention, virality and monetization of the completed products – a proprietary process known as the “Swarm.” AppSwarm offers funding, as well as technology and marketing expertise built around this unique system that integrates user acquisition and commercialization strategies. At the moment, there are five mobile game apps offered under the AppSwarm umbrella, which are available for download on both iOS and Android devices (http://dtn.fm/4BF4o).

In addition to gaming, the company is also focusing on the development of mobile business applications for small businesses aimed at increasing productivity and improving data management with cloud storage support. Data encryption, digital payments, automation, content management and delivery and customer loyalty solutions are some of the other opportunities that the company will target with its mobile business app suite.

As it continues to tap into the expanding gaming industry and with its expansion in the mobile business app segment, the company is uniquely positioned for growth, making it very likely to reach its $6-7 million revenue target by the end of 2018.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.App-Swarm.com

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• Multi-division holding company focusing on industries with high growth, immediate revenue potential
• Specialty niche markets include healthcare services, green technology, and industrial sectors
• Contracts for subsidiary IOSOFT’s proprietary software expected to generate $9.6 million

RJD Green Inc. (OTC: RJDG) is a holding company with a focus on acquiring and managing assets and companies in three divisions. These initial high-growth enterprise opportunities offer diversity in separate recession resistant markets. The division holdings include:

• RJD Green Healthcare Services – provides services to reduce cost and enhance management and operational capabilities in the healthcare sector.
• Earthlinc Environmental Services – provides green environmental services and technologies.
• Silex Holdings – acquires specialty construction and industrial manufacturing assets.

RJD Green Healthcare Services, through its wholly owned subsidiary IOSOFT Inc., provides proprietary software and IT support for medical billing, healthcare claims adjudication, and electronic payments between healthcare payers and providers. IOSOFT’s unique payment technologies and services or software can be integrated with existing systems of healthcare payers such as Blue Cross, Aetna, CIGNA and others. IOSOFT provides targeted offerings for healthcare providers, provider networks, physicians and hospitals, and clearinghouse companies.

Earthlinc Environmental Solutions was formed to bring forward green-applied technologies and offer environmental services with a focus on North America. The division’s first acquisition, Animal Waste Management, is launching operations of a patented, fully developed technology for processing waste produced on commercial poultry and hog farms. Development of this technology was supported by the University of Arkansas and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. This important technology improves the farm’s productivity and is competitively priced with the current expense of handling waste removal at these sites.

The company’s third division – Silex Holdings Inc. – was formed to acquire and manage high-growth assets and business enterprises in the industrial and construction specialty services sectors. With its first acquisition of Silex Interiors, a manufacturer, distributor and installer of counter tops, cabinets and related kitchen and bath products, the division is poised to expand into major national markets through internal expansion, acquisition and franchising. The company is modeled to operate a minimum of four corporately owned locations with 12 to 18 franchise locations nationwide.

RJD Green seeks to participate as owners, partners or in joint ventures in a wide range of business enterprises. The company’s goal of creating a successful, enjoyable business enterprise for its company team and staff, along with its business partners and investors, is paired with the goal of maximizing the business potential of the enterprise by enhancing profits and the quality of the company.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.RJDGreen.com

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• Construction of underground 786 BCF natural gas storage facility to be first in Mexico
• Engineering designs completed for bi-directional natural gas pipelines between Mexico and U.S.
• Overall demand for natural gas in Mexico expected to grow by 22 percent over next 15 years

Mirage Energy Corp. (OTC: MRGE), a natural gas storage and pipeline company based in Texas, intends to construct a first-of-its-kind massive underground natural gas storage facility with connecting bi-directional transmission pipelines in Mexico. The company has completed the engineering designs and schematics for the transmission pipelines that will run from various border locations in Texas to the company’s storage facility in Mexico. The company and its wholly owned subsidiaries are in the process of applying for and obtaining the necessary permits from the associated regulatory agencies in Mexico and the United States.

Mirage Energy Corp.’s underground natural gas storage facility will, for the first time, give Mexico the ability to balance peak loads by consumers, play price arbitrage on natural gas and create a Mexico Natural Gas hub for gas pricing and stability. The identified facility is a depleted natural gas reservoir with the ability to store 786 billion cubic feet (BCF) of natural gas. The first phase of the project includes construction of an initial storage field with capacity set to house 52 BCF of natural gas (http://dtn.fm/sE5Dp).

The project includes four 36-inch bi-directional transmission pipelines that vary in length from 27 miles to 95 miles, with two of the transmission lines boring underneath the Rio Grande. The pipelines, which are engineered to move 500 million cubic feet per day, will be used to inject natural gas into the company’s storage field and then to extract the fuel which can then be delivered to various customers in Mexico.

Recent reforms in Mexico’s electricity sector, intended to reduce government controls and create a more competitive market by opening it up to private investment, are expected to help the country build out its energy infrastructure and stabilize prices (http://dtn.fm/DN0Yk). Much of Mexico’s electricity is generated by natural gas-powered plants, and the bulk of that natural gas is imported from the United States, giving companies like Mirage Energy Corp. and their investors significant opportunities to benefit from the country’s booming natural gas market.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.MirageEnergyCorp.com

• China will see nearly $2 trillion in new consumer-driven consumption by 2021
• Moxian facilitates Chinese consumer consumption
• Tweaked business model positions Moxian for more rapid expansion

China’s overall economic growth has slowed from its nearly 30 years of 10 percent annual improvement, but the Chinese consumer economy is still massive in absolute terms and poised for steadily increased expansion. With a population of 1.3 billion, China now comprises the world’s second-largest economy. Since the market reforms in 1978, China has shifted from a central government planned economy to a market-based economy and has experienced rapid consumer-driven economic development. China is now an upper middle-income country that sustains a targeted 6.5 percent GDP growth rate and has lifted nearly a billion people out of poverty. From centrally planned to consumer-driven, China’s growth is now consumer reliant.

China will see nearly $2 trillion in new consumer-driven consumption by 2021, which equates to about 27 percent of “total consumption growth” that will occur in the world’s major economies during the same period (http://dtn.fm/p4EEb). Over the next several years, China will prove to be one of the greatest opportunities in the world for consumer-oriented companies.

Technology is stoking China’s consumer growth. Skipping historic hard wired infrastructure, the Chinese consumer is mobile and internet savvy. About twice the percentage of Chinese consumers are likely to use a mobile device to make retail purchases as their counterparts in Europe and the United States.

Recently upgrading its mobile payments capability, Moxian, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOXC) is bridging e-commerce to brick and mortar retail. Moxian’s creative and socially interactive online platforms and mobile applications are moving the Chinese consumer from online views to retail purchases at Moxian’s brick and mortar client locations. The company’s seductive social network integrates social media and business into a single platform that offers products, features and services that appeal to consumers, keeping them engaged and referring new customers.

The company’s ingenious and captivating online platforms and mobile applications, the Moxian+ User app and the Moxian+ Business app, allow businesses to interface with both new and existing customers. These online interactions provide each business with the data to analyze consumer likes, dislikes and trends. Moxian’s platforms provide businesses with the ability to create, manage and promote individualized customer loyalty programs, targeted advertising campaigns and special promotions. These interactions between users and Moxian’s merchant clients drive retail traffic into the brick and mortar locations and give merchant client the ability to study consumer behavior and custom-tailor offerings to consumers.

To exploit the immense upside trend, Moxian recently tweaked its business model to grow even more rapidly by utilizing a joint venture strategy and leveraging entrenched businesses to efficiently penetrate China’s top four markets. MOXC’s relationship with China’s dominant payment processor, UnionPay, is integral to the new strategy. A UnionPay processing module on the Moxian+ platform allows MOXC to attract new joint venture partners in China and neighboring Asian markets. The Moxian+ Merchant platform now offers digital processing modules for UnionPay, Alipay, and WeChatPay. These modules allow payment processing as Moxian drives evermore traffic and engages evermore consumers. These changes place Moxian even more in the mix and poised to reap substantial rewards by facilitating the immense growth of the Chinese consumer market.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com

• China is the second-largest global cosmetics consumer, representing $30 billion annually
• Savvy industry veteran recruited for vast untapped CBD skin care market
• 100% of cannabis skin care product market in China up for grabs

It comes as little surprise that cannabidiol (CBD) likely possesses skin healing properties. Found in the marijuana plant, CBD is one of over 80 natural compounds in marijuana that have been used for centuries as natural medicines and therapeutics. Cannabis is a known anti-inflammatory, containing antioxidants and anti-aging elements, while hemp seed oil contains both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids.

In spite of vast anecdotal evidence, science has not yet definitively settled on the positive effects of CBD skin care. However, the recent article “The Role of Cannabinoids in Dermatology,” published in the prestigious Journal of American Academy of Dermatology, suggests efficacy in CBD use for the treatment of several dermatologic conditions, including pruritus, inflammatory skin disease and skin cancer (http://dtn.fm/tQ6BS). It’s likely that even more beneficial effects will be found.

Further scientific validation will be icing on the cake for ChineseInvestors.com, Inc. (OTCQB: CIIX). With the introduction of its line of cannabidiol-based skin care products, CIIX is primed and fast moving into the multi-billion dollar Chinese skin care industry. The company has already filed a record of its first line of hemp-infused skin care products with the China Food and Drug Administration and expects to launch it in the next couple months. As the company stated in a recent press release, “Although ancient Chinese recognized the medicinal properties of the cannabis plant, CBD extract appears to be largely unrecognized in China today for its benefits, including but not limited to, its potential benefits to the largest visible human organ, the skin.”

China is the second-largest consumer of skin care products in the world and generates nearly $30 billion in annual retail sales. Since no other notable manufacturers have entered the cannabis skin care product market in China, CIIX would be first to market and anticipates capturing “100% of China’s market share in this novel skin care products category.” The market potential is immense.

To facilitate and expedite market dominance, CIIX recently appointed skin care industry veteran and Shanghai beauty influencer Fannie (Chun Fang) Tang as marketing director of its wholly-owned CBD Biotechnology Co., Ltd. enterprise. Well known in China, Tang will be responsible for developing and implementing branding strategies for the company’s CBD Magic Hemp Series skin care line (http://dtn.fm/ilH21).

Tang has proven success in the industry, bringing more than two decades of industry experience and previously serving as the CEO of L.D. Waxson, a leading skin care company with a footprint throughout China and much of Southeast Asia. Moving from CEO to director of marketing is a strong testament to the opportunity. There’s little doubt that with Tang’s experience, guidance and industry connections, CBD Biotechnology will position itself to become a leader in China’s skin care industry.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ChineseInvestors.com

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• STLHF adds 6,000 more acres to its Bristol Dry Lake Lithium Project, and aims to be a significant low-cost, domestic producer of battery-grade lithium materials
• Electric cars and smart phones use ion-lithium rechargeable batteries — driving prices and demand. According to Platt’s, lithium production can be expected to grow to 500,000 metric tons by 2020 from 200,000 today
• Goldman Sachs terms lithium “the new gasoline” as it projects that electric cars will have 61% market penetration by 2040, when it sees sales of electric cars outnumbering gasoline units

Standard Lithium Ltd. (TSX.V: SLL) (FRA: S5L) (OTCQX: STLHF) is part of a worldwide race to produce enough lithium to satisfy the growing demand for the ore from electric car makers and smart phone makers. The question now is how soon miners can bring their lithium supply online to meet that demand. Companies such as Tesla have an insatiable demand for lithium, with Platt’s projecting that production could grow to 500,000 metric tons by 2020 from 200,000 today (http://dtn.fm/0wIWS).

STLHF is a junior lithium mining company with a market cap of only $62 million. Along with others, it is aggressively seeking to fill increased worldwide demand for lithium for the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries used in the manufacture of electric cars and smart phones. Goldman Sachs has termed lithium as “the new gasoline”, according to an article titled, “The Global Scramble For Lithium” (http://dtn.fm/Ze2yY). STLHF is focused on finding more lithium in the Bristol Dry Lake project to boost its valuation for investors as a significant low-cost, domestic producer of battery-grade lithium materials.

While Australia, Chile and China are top producers of lithium globally, according to Lithium Investing News (http://dtn.fm/5M5lO), STLHF has announced that its subsidiary, California Lithium Ltd., has signed an amendment agreement with National Chloride Company of America to expand its land production lease in California (http://dtn.fm/4SujJ). The U.S. is only the eighth-ranked lithium producer worldwide. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, “The U.S. has a lot more untapped lithium resources than economically mined reserves at this point” (Feb, 2017). Standard Lithium believes significant opportunity exists to develop geopolitically secure domestic U.S. lithium assets. The amended agreement adds 6,000 acres to STLHF’s land holdings in the Bristol Dry Lake Lithium Project, now totaling 25,000 acres in the Mojave region of San Bernardino County in California.

Lithium Investing News reports that lithium production rose 12% in 2016 to 35,000 metric tons. Morgan Stanley projects that more electric cars will be sold by 2040 than gas-powered cars, with market penetration growing from 16% in 2030 to 51% by 2040 (http://dtn.fm/w9RyQ). In its most bullish scenario, projections are that electric cars will reach 60% market penetration by 2040 and 90% by 2045. Whichever projection comes true, 159,000 more electric vehicles were on the road in 2016, and sales were up 38% over 2015 levels, according to research from FleetCarma (http://dtn.fm/aFHJ8).

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.StandardLithium.com