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Update on Economics of Raleigh Lake Project in Ontario
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 9, 2026) - International Lithium Corp. (TS...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Update on Economics of Raleigh Lake Project in OntarioVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 9, 2026) - International Lithium Corp. (TSXV: ILC) (OTCQB: ILHMF) (FSE: IAH) (\"ILC\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to note the upturn in lithium prices from their low in June 2025, and wishes to give guidance and clarification to the wider investor community for what this means for ILC's Raleigh Lake project. The financial projections and assumptions in this release are already in the public domain as they were included in the Company's previously published disclosures. Since June 30, 2025, the price of Lithium Carbonate, the main lithium benchmark, has risen from USD 8,535 per tonne to USD 19,747 on January 8, 2026, a rise of 131%, while the price of Spodumene Concentrate containing 6% Lithium Oxide (\"SC6\") in the same period has risen from USD 630 to USD1,800 per tonne, a rise of 185%. The source for these prices is @LithiumPriceBot on X. The rise in SC6 has well outperformed even silver since June 2025. Obviously the low in June 2025 followed a very difficult previous 2 ½ years for lithium prices. At the present exchange rate of USD=CAD 1.3880, that means a SC6 price measured in CAD$ of CAD$2,498.40 per tonne. When ILC published the technical report for its Preliminary Economic Assessment (\"PEA\") for Raleigh Lake on January 18, 2024*, ILC's board and management had the foresight to request and publish some sensitivity analysis of the results, as any NPV or IRR calculation is critically dependent on the commodity sale price assumption. The relevant table in the Technical Report (Lithium only) is Table 22-6 shown below, and the sensitivity to the SC6 price assumption at the time of the Technical Report on Raleigh Lake was as per that table.Interpolating this table linearly between the two numbers modelled in the PEA for the Spodumene SC6 price of CAD$ 2,100 per tonne and CAD$ 2,500 per tonne would mean that using as an input the spot price on January 8, 2026, of CAD$ 2,498.40 per tonne the Net Present Value and Internal Rate of Return for the lithium only at the Raleigh Lake project calculated in the same way as in the table below and subject to the same disclaimers would give the following numbers using a discount rate of 8% p.a.:Raleigh Lake Project, lithium onlyPre-tax Post-tax NPV (CAD$) 223.1 million...