Switch Metals PLC. Stock Analysis SWT.L

Switch Metals Plc operates as a special purpose acquisition company, with a view to refocus the energy market, primarily away from coal. The company holds coltan (tantalum and niobium) and lithium licenses in Cote d'Ivoire with over 3,000 square kilometers (km2), including its license applications. Its portfolio is comprised of three primary projects: Issia, Tiassale and Bouake. Its flagship project is the ISSIA coltan project, covering 112 km2 license. ISSIA features both shallow placer deposits and hard rock coltan discoveries. TIASSALE is a lithium spodumene project, covering 990 km2 across three licenses, provides exploration upside, with historically identified spodumene in outcrops. The project is located within 80km from Abidjan port and identified multiple large soil anomalies. BOUAKE offers additional exploration potential for coltan with a first 370 km2 license granted. BOUAKE has multiple unexplored pegmatite occurrences and past findings of coltan and associated rare earth minerals, such as monazite and xenotime, in pan concentrates.