{"id":805638,"date":"2018-06-28T15:28:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=805638"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:28:34","slug":"us-junior-secures-1m-for-superalloy-project-in-southeast-nebraska-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=805638","title":{"rendered":"US junior secures $1M for superalloy project in southeast Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/us-junior-secures-1-million-for-superalloy-project-in-southeast-nebraska\/\">Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>US miner NioCorp Developments (OTCMKTS:NIOBF)(TSX:NB) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/niocorp.com\/index.php\/press-releases\/385-niocorp-to-receive-1-million-in-funding-from-an-entity-managed-by-the-lind-partners\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed Thursday<\/a> is about to receive a $1 million-shot in the arm from an entity managed by The Lind Partners, a New York-based asset management firm.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado-based company, which expects to receive the funding on or around July 9, is in the midst of developing its huge Elk Creek superalloy project in southeast Nebraska, which some <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/nebraska-governor-says-niocorps-elk-creek-high-priority-project\/\" rel=\"noopener\">politicians believe it could produce American-made &#8220;super steels&#8221;<\/a> for existing infrastructure projects across all 50 states.<\/p>\n<p><q>NioCorp is developing the Elk Creek superalloy project in southeast Nebraska, which contains minerals regarded by the US Gov&#8217;t as \u2018critical&#8217;.<\/q><\/p>\n<p>All the metals NioCorp plans to mine at its Elk Creek project \u2014 niobium, scandium, and titanium \u2014 were included last month on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2018\/05\/18\/2018-10667\/final-list-of-critical-minerals-2018\" rel=\"noopener\">US government&#8217;s register of critical minerals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the miner, the project <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/niocorp.com\/index.php\/elkcreekniobium\" rel=\"noopener\">is the only primary niobium deposit in the US<\/a>, and the highest-grade, large-tonnage currently undeveloped in North America.<\/p>\n<p>NioCorp has completed a positive feasibility study for the minerals used in super-alloys and said it obtained key US federal permits to build the $1 billion mine with a mine life of 32 years. The company also said 75% of Elk Creek&#8217;s primary product \u2013 ferroniobium \u2013 is already under contract over the first 10 years of production.<\/p>\n<p>German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp is one of its early customers and NioCorp said the project is eligible for German Government loan guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>Based on current forecasts, Niobium demand is going to surpass the supply capacity from the three existing producers \u2014 CBMM, Anglo American and IAMGOLD&#8217;s Niobec.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/us-junior-secures-1-million-for-superalloy-project-in-southeast-nebraska\/\">US junior secures $1M for superalloy project in southeast Nebraska<\/a> appeared first on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/\">MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/us-junior-secures-1-million-for-superalloy-project-in-southeast-nebraska\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>From:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/us-junior-secures-1-million-for-superalloy-project-in-southeast-nebraska\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"US junior secures $1M for superalloy project in southeast Nebraska\">Infomine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cecilia Jamasmie US miner NioCorp Developments (OTCMKTS:NIOBF)(TSX:NB) revealed Thursday is about to receive a $1 million-shot in the arm from an entity managed by The Lind Partners, a New York-based asset management firm. The Colorado-based company, which expects to receive the funding on or around July 9, is in the midst of developing its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[360],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}