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Oceana Lithium (ASX:OCN) CEO – well, former CEO – Caue Araujo has tendered his resignation to the board.

Perhaps interestingly, Mr. Araujo’s oft-updated Linkedin still displayed his role as CEO as of 9.45am on Wednesday Sydney time. He has been with the company for 11 months.

Araujo has previously been the MD of Tambourah Metals, the GM of a geoconsulting business in Brazil, and geologist at Vale. This is not an exhaustive list.

The company listed in July of 2022 at 30cps and has since fallen to 4cps after rising to 70cps in August of 2022. It never rose above 40c after January of last year.

To be fair, it’s not like lithium juniors have had it easy. In many ways, the company listed at the worst possible time: at the top of the lithium cycle.

In the meantime, chauir Dr. Qingtao Zeng will oversee the company.

While pork cycle theory harmonises with Battery Minerals Intelligence’s forecast for a 2028 recovery in lithium prices, it’s unclear if we’ll ever see lithium prices hit the highs they reached in the early 2020’s.

Long story short, there’s now a lot more lithium supply than there was in the COVID years.

Less shipping disruptions, too, ignoring the Panama Canal’s susceptibility to drought and radicals firing rockets off Yemen.

OCN last traded at 4cps.

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