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Sigma Lithium Highlights the Issuance of an Official Technical Statement Declaring the Safety of Its Waste Piles by Brazil's National Mining Agency
HIGHLIGHTS Brazil's mining regulator, Agencia Nacional de Mineracao ("ANM or Mining R...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Sigma Lithium Highlights the Issuance of an Official Technical Statement Declaring the Safety of Its Waste Piles by Brazil's National Mining AgencyHIGHLIGHTS Brazil's mining regulator, Agencia Nacional de Mineracao (\"ANM or Mining Regulator\") issued an official technical statement about Sigma Lithium's waste piles, directly attesting their safety. The Mining Regulator unequivocally stated that it did not encounter any legal prerequisites for the adoption of precautionary measures of closure of Sigma Lithium's operations or waste piles.ANM is the regulatory authority with powers over mining activities in Brazil. It is the body of the Brazilian Government with a team that is equipped with the capabilities to execute technical mining audits. Sigma Lithium restates that the administrative enquiry opened by the Brazilian Ministry of Labor and Employment during a regular inspection regarding health and safety in December 2025 has no material effect on the Company's capacity to continue to execute its mining activities, which are in the process of being ramped up to mine plan capacity.During the abovementioned inspection, the Brazilian Ministry of Labor and Employment had the opportunity of verifying the Sigma Lithium's impeccable safety record, with over 2 years without labor accidents with lost time.The scale of the Company's environmentally licensed areas for its Mine 1 operations (received in 2019 and 2022) endows it with several options for the location of piles of waste rock removed from its mining pits. São Paulo, Brazil--(Newsfile Corp. - February 4, 2026) - Sigma Lithium Corporation (TSXV: SGML) (NASDAQ: SGML) (BVMF: S2GM34) (\"Sigma Lithium\" or \"the Company\"), a leading global lithium producer dedicated to powering the next generation of electric batteries with socially and environmentally sustainable lithium concentrate, highlights the issuance of a publicly disseminated official technical statement (\"Statement\") by Brazil's mining industry regulator, Agencia Nacional de Mineracao (\"ANM\" or \"Mining Regulator\"), explicitly attesting the safety of Sigma Lithium's waste piles. The Mining Regulator unequivocally confirmed in the Statement the absence of evidence of serious technical risk and that it did not encounter any legal prerequisites to adopt precautionary measures of closure.The Statement, issued on ...