Manganese

“With the recent crash of the cobalt price and nickel For all sorts of reasons, and that's the topic for a whole different discussion, but particularly those two metals with the depression on their prices, our project remains profitable, and the reason it's pro…”

“60% of manganese comes from South Africa, China, and Australia, and China sources 80% of the world's graphite.”

“On the refining side, China controls 80% of manganese refining, more than 70% of cobalt and nickel refining, more than 60% of lithium refining. And then you get to the most valuable components, the cathodes, the anodes, right? China controls more than 75% of c…”

“We have a world-class zinc deposit and a world-class manganese deposit, so it's the only mine development project in the United States. That would produce two critical minerals designated on the US Geological Survey's critical minerals list, so those being zin…”

“The typical electric vehicle battery right now has about 17% manganese. Manganese only constitutes about one percent of the cost, so it's a very low cost metal in the chemistry of the battery.”

“One is you can completely displace the cobalt in the battery by increasing the manganese content.”

“We have devised, ah, Hermosa, or designed Hermosa as an underground operation. We can mine both the manganese and the zinc resource with less than 600 acres of total disturbance, compared to upwards of 10,000 for many other mining projects. And the vast majori…”

“The US hasn't mined manganese in 50 years, since the early seventies.”