Australian Mines upgrades Sconi cobalt-nickel resource to 75+ million tonnes
The revised resource is expected to boost optimised BFS potential and increase financial outcomes for the Sconi project.
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Australian Mines Limited is an ASX-listed exploration and development company focused on gold, critical metals and energy-storage technology across Australia and Brazil. The company is building a diversified portfolio that combines near-term gold exploration at Boa Vista with longer-term exposure to scandium, nickel, cobalt, tin, lithium and rare earth elements through its critical metals projects.
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The revised resource is expected to boost optimised BFS potential and increase financial outcomes for the Sconi project.
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The event will attract “the who’s who of the junior and mid-cap market CEOs” and will have a “bustling exhibition area”.
The market study demonstrates that there will be a significant opportunity for new nickel sulphate and cobalt sulphate market entrants.
Declaring this status by the State Government helps to streamline approvals and fast-track delivery of the cobalt-nickel-scandium project.
90% of planned operating expenditure aims to be spent on businesses from the region.
Typically, above 0.1% cobalt is considered high-grade, AUZ intersected 3.4% cobalt.
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Despite a sharp price correction in 2018, shrinking supply sources and growing demand for battery chemicals are predicted to sustain cobalt prices into the 2020s.
The company's flagship project is its Sconi Cobalt-Nickel-Scandium Project in Queensland.
Both parties remain fully committed to the previously signed binding term sheet and aim to finalise and execute the offtake agreement this quarter.
The company recently acquired a secondary project alongside its flagship Sconi Project.
The supply situation is severely limited with literally only a few tons of product hitting the market each year.
The goal is for Flemington to act as a second production source of cobalt, nickel and scandium to the company’s flagship Sconi Project.
Norwest intends to aggressively explore its portfolio of 19 granted tenements in WA.
A bankable feasibility study was recently completed for the Sconi Cobalt-Nickel-Scandium Project.
The company's chairman Michael Ramsden addressed shareholders at this morning's meeting.
The study estimates that the Queensland mine would cost US$31 million to build and processing plant capex is US$730 million.
The company is focused on its flagship Sconi Cobalt-Nickel-Scandium Project in Queensland.
The IPO offered 33 million shares priced at 20 cents each to raise $6.6 million.
The conference will be held at the Westin Hotel in Perth next Tuesday and Wednesday, November 13 and 14.
The oxide has met all the requirements for use in an aluminium-scandium feedstock to support master alloy development.