Itronics Inc (ITRO)

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March 17 PR

Item 3 (pasted below) deals with the Rock Kleen technology which is apparently being launched in California.
There is a new (at least new to me) acronym; ICTMC. I'm assuming it stands for Itronics Clean Tech Materials Center. And that explains the purchase of the monster facility.

The tailings will be treated at the mine site then the enriched material will be shipped to the Itronics Nevada facility for final processing. This indicates another income stream for Itronics; selling the cleaned tailings in various forms; rock, crushed rock fines, clay, and base metals used for industrail applications. All of this after extracting the precious metals.
While the incredible sales of the fertilizer projected for this year is pleasing, the potential for the clean mining materials is the big bell ringer.
Wow, just wow!

"3 - Rock Kleen Tailings Processing is a revolutionary Itronics "Clean Tech Materials" development that cleans mine tailings of residual cyanide and makes the previously mined materials available for Industrial Mineral usage. This is Energy Saving Technology because it avoids the significant energy costs of mining and crushing the rock. Rock Kleen recovers residual metals including both precious and base metals that were not recovered by previous leaching processes. While Rock Kleen is used at the mine site or at a central location, final metal production will occur at the ICTMC. Industrial Minerals production and sales is a major growth market for Itronics. Producing crushed rock, clays, crushed rock fines and minerals from previously mined tailings provides huge opportunities for this Itronics Zero Waste Energy Saving Technology by saving energy and maximizing materials use. Up to 60 percent of the cost of mining is energy, so the energy cost savings are very substantial. Rock Kleen is produced by Itronics' proprietary GOLD'n GRO technology. The current Industrial Mineral market in California-Nevada approaches 300 million tons per year. A Whitney & Whitney marketing survey has identified over 400 million tons of treatable mine leach tails near rail service in the Yerington, Nevada to Tonopah, Nevada corridor. Rock Kleen Processing projects are designed as joint ventures. Forecast revenues for Rock Kleen Tailings Processing approach $12 million per year by 2025 for Itronics portion of the first project. Additional projects will produce ever increasing Rock Kleen revenue for Itronics."