Clean Air Metals Inc (TSX-V:AIR, OTCQB:CLRMF) has reported that it ended its third quarter with working capital of around C$1.9 million to advance its flagship platinum, palladium, copper, nickel Thunder Bay North project in Ontario.
The company had total cash as at October 31, 2021, of C$36.7 million, compared to C$27.1 million at the beginning of its fiscal year on January 31, 2021.
Post period-end, recently the company reported the results of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) completed on the Current and Escape deposits at the project, which had shown "robust metrics". The after-tax net present value (NPV) came in at C$378.4 million, using a 5% discount rate, as well as an after-tax internal rate of return (IRR) of 29.8%.
READ: Clean Air Metals says PEA results from its Thunder Bay North project show “robust financial metrics”
Clean Air Metals also noted that in the nine months to end-October, drilling at Thunder Bay had focused on step-out holes between resources within the Escape Lake Deposit to add to the 505,369 oz palladium equivalent (PdEq) indicated resource at 3.67g/t PdEq, which had been published in January this year.
The company also carried out further resource delineation drilling at the adjacent Current Lake deposit, building on the indicated mineral resource of 1,328,789 oz PdEq at an average grade of 3.44 g/t PdEq, also published in January this year, it said.
The resource firm also continued with metallurgical studies as a precursor to smelter offtake analysis and underground mine modelling as key inputs into the recently published PEA.
Clean Air Metals' flagship asset is its high-grade Thunder Bay North project, a platinum, palladium, copper, nickel project located near the city of Thunder Bay and the Lac des Iles mine owned by Impala Platinum.
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