Plugged in tech-metal juniors
From graphite to vanadium, high-tech minerals and metals are sure to see growing use in the future from applications such as smart phones, cars and energy storage. Here’s a look…
Technology Metals 2016
Site visit: Largo is ‘all smiles’ in Brazil
MARACAS, BRAZIL — About an hour’s drive from Maracas — the city of flowers — is the first producing vanadium mine in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia. Toronto-based Largo Resources’…
Flinders eyes Tasman merger to tap emerging green economy
VANCOUVER — Two years ago Flinders Resources (TSXV: FDR; US-OTC: FLNXF) was flying high as the “only Western producer of natural flake graphite” at its historic Woxna mine, 8 km northwest of the town…
Nouveau Monde outlines economics for Matawinie
VANCOUVER — Eric Desaulniers, president and CEO of Nouveau Monde Mining (TSXV: NOU; US-OTC: NMGRF), reckons that lithium explorers aren’t the only ones that stand to benefit from Tesla Motors…
Sparton banks on vanadium
Over the course of his 54 years in the business, Canadian geologist and engineer Lee Barker has had many rewarding moments. In the early 1970s he recognized and staked the…