Sigma Lithium Corporation (NASDAQ: SGML) (TSXV: SGML) (BVMF: S2GM34) (“Sigma Lithium” or the “Company”), the largest producer of lithium oxide concentrate in the Americas¹ and dedicated to industrializing socially and environmentally sustainable lithium materials to supply global producers of batteries for energy security, announces that it has resumed sales of high-grade premium lithium oxide in 1Q26, achieving industrial production cadence.
In the 1Q26, the Company expects to generate gross revenues equivalent to the sale of approximately 28,000 tonnes of high-purity premium lithium oxide at a grade-adjusted price of approximately US$1,712 per tonne. This performance reflects Sigma Lithium’s ability of industrially beneficiating its dry-stacked tailings of fines, as well an existing inventory of raw materials into both premium high-grade lithium oxide and high-purity lithium fines.
The Company has also executed its inaugural sale of 400,000 tonnes of high-purity lithium fines at the plant gate to be delivered on an ex-works EXW basis at a binding fixed price of US$50 per tonne. This transaction is expected to generate approximately US$20 million in profit.
Following this sale, Sigma Lithium retains an inventory of approximately 300,000 tonnes of high-purity lithium fines at its plant, which is expected to generate at least an additional US$15 million in profit considering the robust conditions for the lithium market expected to prevail during the next few months. The commercialization of low-grade lithium fines by Sigma Lithium demonstrates a considerable “sustainability reward and green premium” to its shareholders.
Ana Cabral, Co-Chairperson of Sigma Lithium, said:
“The resumption of sales of high-grade premium lithium oxide is in accordance with the outlook we highlighted at our investor presentations this year. By recovering, reprocessing and thus, upgrading, through our proprietary Greentech technology, the previously untapped lithium materials idling at our dry stacked piles, Sigma Lithium delivered a direct financial return on its investment in the clean technology developed for its Greentech Industrial Plant’s dry stacking processing module and reprocessing lithium circuits, while creating a permanent new business unit that increases the volume of high-purity lithium materials delivered to our customers, enhancing the diversification of our product portfolio.
Sigma Lithium’s VP of Business Development Marina Bernardini said: “Our inaugural sales of high-purity lithium fines, delivered at the plant on an ex works basis, confirms the profitability of these sales and highlights the potential for future cash flow to be generated from the remaining inventories of high-purity fines currently at the plant. They also further reinforce the sustainability reward for shareholders that we have demonstrated through successive profitable sales of these products.”
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