Essential Metals terminates deed with Tianqi-IGO JV as shareholders disapprove

Essential Metals

21/04/2023 24:14

April 21 (Reuters) - Australia's Essential Metals Ltd
 ESS.AX  said on Friday it had terminated a scheme
implementation deed signed with Tianqi Lithium  002466.SZ  in
January this year.
    The news comes a day after the lithium miner's shareholders
knocked down a A$136 million bid from a joint venture between
China's Tianqi Lithium and Australian miner IGO Ltd  IGO.AX . 

 (Reporting by Rishav Chatterjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Shweta
Agarwal)
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