** Analysts at Macquarie cut price target on Argosy Minerals
AGY.AX to A$0.75 from A$0.80, retains "outperform" rating
** Brokerage says the decline in price target reflects
increased equity dilution in our funding assumption for Rincon
project, due to the fall in AGY's share price
** Lithium explorer AGY said on Thursday pumping tests at
co's Rincon lithium project confirm that brine can be
economically abstracted from the deep sand aquifer
** Test work suggests that the economics of extracting brine
from the black sand aquifer could be better than originally
anticipated - Macquarie
** AGY stock trades 5.9% lower
** Two analysts rate the stock "buy" or higher; their median
PT is A$0.80 – Refinitiv data
** Stock down 40.4% this year, as of last close
(Reporting by Aishwarya Nair in Bengaluru)
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