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Green Lithium: How A10 Invest Built a NASDAQ Listed Sustainable Industrial-Mining Integrated Startup into a Major Producer

Name: Green Lithium: How A10 Invest Built a NASDAQ Listed Sustainable Industrial-Mining Integrated Startup into a Major Producer (English version)
SKU: IN-2121

Greve Henrich

Product #:IN-2121

Supplier:INSEAD

Discipline:Strategy

Details:Case (PDF) • 17 pages • 2025-09-19

Subjects:

Strategy Entrepreneurship

Industries:

Fabrication and manufacturing

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The case presents the decision facing Sigma Lithium, and its main owner A10, on how to respond to the 2024 crash in the price of lithium. It traces the start-up’s history from the acquisition of a property with mining potential in Brazil to the development of environmentally-friendly mining and processing plant, with community improvement as a central goal. Having succeeded in creating value despite turbulence in the lithium market and other setbacks, should it now expand operations, keep the operation ‘as is’ or sell the venture?

Learning Objectives

How a financial investment entity acquires the capabilities to build and operate a mine. How to combine a cost focus with environmentally sustainable operations and community outreach. How to respond to volatile economic and social conditions, notably wildly fluctuating prices of mining output, i.e., lithium pre-chemicals.