Interesting news as the Chinese are looking to acquire lithium projects and offer was made today for Lithium X Energy.

https://www.lithium-x.com/news-release/nextview-to-acquire-lithium-x-energy-corp/
  
https://www.resourcestockdigest.com/archives/index.php?content_id=5995

Sal de los Angeles lithium brine project. consists of approximately 8,747.50 hectares of Salar de Diablillos, and has an NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate of 1.037 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent in the indicated category and 1.007 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent in the inferred category

This deal  may have been reason for a boost in  many names in the region such as AAL, ML, ORL, LAC and NLC and so more deals could occur in 2018. ORL is the only producer in this list and hence it may be a prime takeover target.