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Cornish Lithium raises £5.1m in one of the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ's largest crowdfunding campaigns of 2023

The Penryn-based mining company launched the campaign through Crowdcube earlier in September

Cornish Lithium's DLE test facility in Cornwall

Cornish Lithium has raised £5.1m in its crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to build a sustainable, battery-grade º£½ÇÊÓÆµ lithium supply.

The Penryn-based company, which has undertaken a number of projects to demonstrate the commercial capability of lithium production in Cornwall, launched the campaign earlier in September.

The crowdfunding is one of the largest undertaken in the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ this year and is the largest on Crowdcube by a B2B business in 2023.

The crowdfunding was launched to provide Cornish Lithium’s existing shareholders, as well as new retail shareholders, the opportunity to invest alongside the £53.6m investment announced on August 8 this year by the º£½ÇÊÓÆµ Infrastructure Bank, the Energy and Minerals Group and TechMet.

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Existing shareholders received priority access to the financing round with Crowdcube, investing a milestone £1m in just 27 minutes.

The investment package together with the funds raised through the crowdfunding will enable Cornish Lithium to progress its hard rock lithium project to a construction-ready status, as well as complete the engineering design work required to build a demonstration-scale geothermal waters extraction facility.

Jeremy Wrathall, founder and chief executive of Cornish Lithium said: “We were delighted to be able to offer our loyal existing shareholders the opportunity to invest alongside our institutional investors following our landmark £53.6m fundraise.