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http://www.stockhouse.com/news/usreleasesdetail.aspx?n=86793… Highlights of the PEA Include: •Net Present Value (NPV): $577M at a 10% discount rate, pre-tax. •Internal Rate of Return (IRR): 43%. •Payback Period: 2.3 years. •Capital Cost: $221M, including a complete on-site rare earth oxide (REO) separation plant, and a contingency provision in the amount of $25M. Among the lowest capital outlays in the rare earth mining sector. •Mining Rate: 1,500 tonnes per day (TPD), 75% of mill feed is eliminated via the use of Dual Energy X-Ray Transmission (DEXRT) sorting and magnetic separation, netting approximately 375 TPD to feed the leach circuit. •Average Total Rare Earth Recoveries: 81.6% •Production of REOs at site: Deployment of Solid Phase Extraction (SPE) technology to generate high purity individual rare earth oxides at the site. •REO Production: Averaging 2,250 tonnes per year (TPY) during the first five years at full production, including 95 tonnes of dysprosium oxide, 14 tonnes of terbium oxide, and 515 tonnes of yttrium oxide. •Mine Life: 11 years, based on existing Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate (April 21, 2011), excluding highly prospective expansion at depth, along strike, and other exploration targets at the I&L Zone and beyond. •Direct Employment: 170 employees. •Ease of Shipping Access: Only rare earth project with immediate deep water shipping facilities, resulting in prospective mine-mouth shipping rates among the lowest in the industry. •Elimination of Tailings on Surface at Closure: Only known mine to eliminate tailings on surface at closure. All tailings will be placed underground via cemented paste backfill. The processing plant will generate approximately 735 TPD of tailings, significantly less than the mine requirement of approximately 1,030 TPD backfill. •Recycling of Nitric Acid: Nitric acid that is not consumed in the leach circuit will be recycled through the use of diffusion dialysis, greatly reducing acid consumption by more than 75%, resulting in significant financial and environmental benefits. •Near Term, High Value Production: Relative high percentage of rare earth metals strategically critical to the US defence, clean energy, aerospace, supercomputing and transportation sectors: including Tb, Dy and Y. •Excellent Geopolitical Support: Offset of completion risk through strong legislative and financial support at state and federal levels. |
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