First Cobalt Corp (CVE: FCC- OTCQX: FTSSF) CEO Trent Mell joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share details the company has been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy's Critical Materials Institute for research on innovative mineral processing techniques for the Iron Creek copper-cobalt project in Idaho. First Cobalt was one of only four projects selected for funding.
Mell telling Proactive the funding will be for 600,000 over a two-year period to work with the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines to optimize the recovery of cobalt. First Cobalt was one of only four projects selected for this funding.