manganese

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

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

“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.”

“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…”

“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…”