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accession: "0001193125-26-391409"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FEAM"
cik: "0001888654"
company_name: "5E Advanced Materials, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-09-15T13:00:18+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-09-15T13:01:22.753610+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# 5E Advanced Materials wins bid for Searles Valley Minerals assets: $3.4M cash, 8.3M shares, $6.2M note

## Summary
- Consideration: ~$3.4M cash (less $300k deposit), 8.3M FEAM shares, ~$6.2M senior unsecured note at 14.5% PIK.
- Assets include Argus, Westend, Trona production facilities, ~9,000 acres Searles Lake brine, Trona Railway, water utilities.
- Conditions: Bankruptcy Court approval, STB authorization for railroad, and $10M bridge facility from Nirma Limited (8% PIK, 270-day maturity).
- Transformative: moves 5E from pre-revenue to operating borates producer; would be only American-owned US borate producer with ~200-year resource life.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-391409
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FEAM
- cik: 0001888654
- company_name: 5E Advanced Materials, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-09-15T13:00:18+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1888654/000119312526391409/0001193125-26-391409-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1888654/000119312526391409/feam-20260914.htm

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