Niocorp Developments Ltd (NB)

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Yeah I remember something similar to that as well...still looking for the article where the co. Estimates the cost..
Two extracts below suggest scandium just necessarily comes along for the ride on the niobium flowsheet:


Mark: "I would love to. We have scandium. It’s not strictly a high ore grade. It’s about 73 parts per million scandium in the part of the resource we plan to mine. By virtue of processing our mineral to extract the niobium we then necessarily start producing scandium. We’ll be able to produce about 97 tonnes a year of scandium trioxide.

Mark:
"This is very significant. The airline industry would love to use the scandium aluminum alloys in the construction of their planes. But there hasn’t been enough scandium available. We plan to start to address that issue by producing 97 tons of that material a year. Again as we produce niobium we necessarily produce scandium. I think the scandium market will take great pleasure in knowing that we have pledged 75% of our niobium in off-take agreements because that means scandium is going to be produced from this facility.