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In this new video, NioCorp leadership discusses the implications of recent testing that demonstrated its ability to potentially double the recovery of titanium from each tonne of ore the Company expects to mine at its Nebraska-based Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project, once project financing is obtained and the commercial plant is constructed. The new process is expected to produce a purer form of titanium that may command a higher price than is assumed in NioCorp’s June 2022 feasibility study for the Project.

NioCorp’s demonstration plant in Trois Rivieres, Quebec, has shown that the Company’s new and improved recovery process can likely achieve an 83.7% rate of overall titanium recovery to final product. This compares to a 40.3% titanium recovery rate in NioCorp’s previous process approach. This new result points to a potentially large increase in the amount of titanium that NioCorp can potentially produce at currently planned rates of mining.

NioCorp’s current Feasibility Study shows the Project producing approximately 431,793 tonnes of titanium dioxide. The titanium produced by NioCorp’s new process is in the form of titanium tetrachloride (“TiCl4”), known in commercial markets as “tickle.” This is a purer form of titanium than the synthetic rutile, and generally commands a higher market price. TiCl4 is an input for the production of high-purity titanium oxides and compounds, which are used primarily in the manufacture of white pigments, and titanium metal and aerospace-grade titanium alloys.
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As consumers embrace electric vehicles (EVs) in increasing numbers and automakers transform production, demand for the lithium used in EV batteries is expected to outstrip supply for years to come. 

Learn why lithium has earned its position as a critical mineral, and may be an investment opportunity, in our newest educational video. 

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Inomin's Beaver-Lynx project has the potential to be one of the world's largest greenest deposits of high-grade magnesium and other critical minerals: nickel, chromium, cobalt.

ADVANCING THE WORLD-CLASS CLAYTON VALLEY LITHIUM PROJECT TO PRODUCTION

Century Lithium Corp. (formerly Cypress Development Corp.) is a Canadian based advanced stage lithium Company, focused on developing its 100%-owned Clayton Valley Lithium Project in Nevada, USA. Century Lithium is actively testing material from its lithium-bearing claystone deposit at its Lithium Extraction Facility while moving toward the completion of a Feasibility Study, with the goal to become a domestic producer of lithium for the growing electric vehicle and battery storage market.

Defense Metals is an advanced mineral exploration company with an Indicated Mineral Resource of 5 million tons averaging 2.95% TREO (Total Rare Earth Oxide), and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 29.5 million tonnes averaging 1.83% TREO.

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Rockland Resources Ltd. (RKL-CSE) is a junior mineral exploration company.  The Issuer is engaged in the business of exploring its principal property, the leading claystone lithium project in Utah.

Interview with Bill Willoughby, CEO of Cypress Development Corp. (TSX-V: CYP)

Our previous interview: https://youtu.be/wrLI5Evrb-Q

Recording date: 4th November 2022

Cypress Development Corp. (TSX.V: CYP) (OTCQX: CYDVF) is a Canadian based advanced stage lithium company, focused on developing its 100%-owned Clayton Valley Lithium Project in Nevada, USA. Cypress is in the pilot stage of testing on material from its lithium-bearing claystone deposit and progressing towards completing a Feasibility Study and permitting, with the goal of becoming a domestic producer of lithium for the growing electric vehicle and battery storage market.

0:00 - Company Overview
0:32 - Map of the Project Location in Nevada Presentation & Discussion
4:19 - Bill’s Involvement in the Project since 2016
4:58 - Overview of the Lithium Clay Industry
5:54 - Differentiating Types of Lithium Clay
6:36 - Defining what “Lithium Clay” is
7:51 - Indicators that Showed Potential to the Lithium Clay Project
10:39 - Reason for Labeling the Hydrochloric Acid Approach as the “Greener Option”
11:39 - Availability in Connecting to a Power Grid
12:33 - Other Companies’ Approach to Developing their Lithium Clay
13:22 - Explaining the Pilot Plant Flow Diagram Presentation
22:22 - Perspective on the Future of Developing Lithium Clays
23:50 - Priority Order of the Company’s Agendas
25:48 - Being the First Lithium Carbonate Clay Producer & its Impact on the Company’s Bottomline
27:23 - Including the Marketing Study in the Upcoming Feasibility Study
28:21 - Projected News Flow in the Next Few Months
29:18 - Expected Delivery Time of the Feasibility Study
29:27 - Updates on the Permitting Process
33:43 - Other Companies that are using the Hydrochloric Acid Route
34:18 - Outro

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Nano One's patented One-Pot and M2CAM (Metal direct to Cathode Active Materials) technologies reduce complexity, cost, and environmental footprint in the lithium-ion battery cathode supply chain. Applies to Niobium Coated Single Crystal Cathodes like NMC, LNMO, LFP, and more. Nano One is changing how the world makes battery materials while transforming the supply chain to a cleaner more sustainable approach.

UPDATED: The advantages of Nano One's One Pot Process on performance and cost. 2 minute video explaining how Nano One's Coated Single Crystal Cathode materials differ from conventional cathode materials using coating materials like Niobium.

Click the link to read the full News Release:
https://nanoone.ca/news/news-releases/nano-one-and-rio-tinto-announce-strategic-partnership-and-us-10m-investment/ 

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Liquid air battery explained - rival to ion batteries? The lithium ion battery is great. They power much of the world around us and in our pockets, but trying to scale the technology up for renewable energy grid battery storage is challenging. What if there was another way? A method that used air to store energy? 

Lithium mining makes the batteries for our phones, cars, and power grid possible, but where does lithium come from? Mining lithium happens in one of two ways normally. Liquid brines and hard rock spodumene are the major sources of lithium.

Mining spodumene and filtering brine for lithium can take a lot of time or use a lot of energy. However, mining for lithium could change radically in the future.

Digging up clay and extracting lithium could revolutionize the lithium mining industry. Clay minerals are softer, more accessible, and less energy-intensive to extract lithium from. Tesla is even looking to get involved!

0:00 Why Lithium Mining matters
0:53 Lithium in liquid brines
1:41 Liquid brine processing for lithium extraction
2:07 Pros and Cons of Brines
3:01 Mining Spodumene for lithium
3:30 Extracting lithium from spodumene ore
4:17 Pros and Cons of Spodumene mining
5:13 Australian spodumene mining projects
6:00 Mining clay for lithium
6:43 Current state of the clay mining industry in Nevada
7:49 American Lithium clay mining strategy
8:25 Tesla and lithium clay mining
9:50 Pros and Cons of clay mining
10:31 Wrap-up
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Batteries are everywhere in today’s hyperconnected electrically propelled society. What if your electric car could travel 1000 miles on a single charge, charge in 10 minutes, and last for 1 million miles?

Today just about every electric car uses lithium ion batteries. They’re pretty good, but ultimately are heavy and have long charging times for the amount of energy they can store.

According to Elon Musk, battery modules are the main limiting factor in electric vehicle life. In 2019 he said the Tesla Model 3 drive unit is rated for 1 million miles, but the battery isn’t as long lasting.

To handle the predicted demand explosion for electric vehicles over the coming decades, we’ll need to create a breakthrough battery that is cheaper, longer lasting, more durable, and more efficient. We must also address the issues of political and environmental sustainability to ensure batteries remain tenable in an increasingly electric future.

Over 80% of world’s lithium deposits are found in China, and current technology also relies heavily on cobalt, an element mostly found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

After Tesla’s recent battery day, where Elon Musk announced a larger, tabless 4680 battery cell with improved energy density, greater ease of manufacturing, and lower cost. The world’s attention is now more focused on batteries than ever before, but Tesla isn’t the only show in town.

Lithium air batteries. Metal air batteries have been around for a while. You might find a little zinc air button cell in a hearing aid, for example, but scaled up aluminum and lithium air chemistries are also promising for the automotive and aerospace industries. The potential for lightweight batteries with high energy storage makes this battery technology promising. Lithium air batteries could have a maximum theoretical specific energy of 3,460 W h/kg , almost 10 times more than lithium ion. NASA researchers have also been investigating lithium air batteries for use in aircraft. This technology still has a long way to go before your take your next business trip is in an electric plane.

Nanotech Batteries. Nanotechnology has been a buzzword for several decades, but is now finding applications in everything from nanoelectronics to biomedical engineering, and body armor to extra-slippery clothing irons. Nanomaterials make use of particles and structures 1-100 nanometers in size, essentially one size up from the molecular scale. Carbon nanostructures also show great promise. Graphene is one of the most exciting of these. Amprius go one stage further with their anodes of ‘100% silicon nanowire’. The maker claims that they can achieve 500 Wh/kg which is in the range suitable for enabling electric aircraft in partnership with Airbus. Nanomaterial research is promising

Lithium sulphur batteries are one emerging technology that can offer greatly improved energy densities compared to lithium-ion. The theoretical maximum specific energy of this chemistry is 2,567 Wh/kg compared to lithium ion’s 350 Wh/kg maximum.

Solid state electrolytes. A common theme in emerging technologies so far has been researchers’ desire to develop solid state electrolytes. These would replace flammable organic liquids with stable, crystalline or glassy-state solids, or polymer-base. It is hoped that using these solid electrolytes would enable the use of metallic lithium electrodes to provide higher output voltages and allow for increased energy density. Panasonic have also been looking into solid state electrolytes. It is notable that Tesla have been partnered with Panasonic in their existing lithium-ion manufacturing capacity, but it is Toyota who have publicly announced their collaboration with Panasonic to develop next generation solid state batteries.
Samsung too are working on solid state batteries.

Dual carbon batteries. Two carbon electrodes and a non-toxic electrolyte with the ability to extract more power than from conventional lithium ion, and their ability to charge 20 times faster, and these lithium-ion variants could be the future for electric vehicles.

Better batteries are also important for the advancement of stationary storage from renewable energy sources such as solar power. Tesla is also making headway into this sector, with products like the powerwall home battery, and powerpack commercial energy storage products.

The technologies discussed in this video could have huge implications on different battery powered transportation options besides just electric cars. Imagine the potential in everything from electric bikes to electric scooters and electric boats to electric airplanes. Consumer electronics also stand to experience vast improvements in battery life in devices such as smart phones, laptops, cameras, and more. The future is electric!

Tesla's primary barrier to growth is battery supply and they are likely to take some production in house to address this. If Tesla is going to produce batteries at a large scale, they'll need raw material. So in this video, I speculate on the possibility of a Tesla mining operation.

Critics say the state's dependence on solar and wind have made the power grid unreliable and overly expensive.

California's rolling blackouts this summer were caused by decades of costly and poorly planned decisions to replace coal, nuclear, and gas-powered plants with solar and wind, according to some energy experts.

"It speaks to the delusion of California policymakers," says Michael Shellenberger, the president of Environmental Progress, which advocates for greater reliance on nuclear power as a way to reduce CO2 emissions and provide reliable energy. "They really convinced themselves that they could manage all of this increased demand on renewables, which are fundamentally unreliable." 

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Say you were building a gigafactory, scratch that: a terafactory, you would want to make sure you have the raw minerals to feed your monster plant and drive growth in the EV market, right?

So your biggest input is: lithium? nickel? cobalt? No, no no!! Graphite exceeds all others by far.
No worries, we've got you covered: battery-grade graphite–by the tonne!–with a clean, carbon-neutral footprint to build the truly sustainable EV of your dreams.

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First Cobalt Refinery project can become a viable, globally competitive player in the North American and European electric vehicle (EV) supply chain.