** Shares of Australian lithium miner Kali Metals KM1.AX
surge as much as 90% to A$0.475 as it files for initial public
offering
** Miner with projects in Western Australia, New South Wales
and Victoria was spun off as a separate company from Kalamazoo
Resources KZR.AX
** IPO heavily subscribed, raising maximum amount of A$15
mln ($10.08 mln)
** Funds raised from IPO will be mainly used to develop
Higginsville Lithium Project in Western Australia's Eastern
Yilgarn region - co
** Adds initial drilling program for its lithium projects
are expected to start in H1 FY24
** Shares of Kalamazoo slump as much as 9.7%
($1 = 1.4888 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Archishma Iyer in Bengaluru)
((Archishma.Iyer@thomsonreuters.com;))