Critical Elements Hires AMBUCK Associates to Assist With the Feasibility Study and Provide the Detailed Engineering for the Mining Plan
(firmenpresse) - MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwire) -- 01/31/12 -- Critical Elements Corporation (TSX VENTURE: CRE)(OTCQX: CRECF)(FRANKFURT: F12) is pleased to announce that they have hired AMBUCK associates for mine design and lead for the feasibility study.
The mining study, part of the feasibility study will include the following items:
Study Project Coordination
Mr. Malcolm Buck of AMBUCK Associates would also act as consultant project coordinator. He would aid Mr. Paul Bonneville in insuring all aspects of the Feasibility study are completed and the report prepared in compliance with NI 43-101, so it can be filed by Critical Elements with the appropriate regulatory authorities.
Critical Elements regrets to announce that Jean Rainville has resigned as a director of the Company, a position he had held since November 2010. The Board of Directors thanks Mr. Rainville for his hard work and wishes him all the best in his future endeavours.
About Critical Elements Corporation
Critical Elements is actively developing its 100%-owned Rose lithium-tantalum flagship project located in Quebec.
A recent financial analysis of the Rose Project based on price forecasts of US$260/kg ($118/lb) for Ta2O5 contained in a tantalite concentrate and US$6,000/t for lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) show an after-tax Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of an estimated 25% for the Rose Project, with an estimated Net Present Value (NPV) of CA$279 million at an 8% discount rate. The payback period is estimated at 4.1 years. The pre-tax IRR is estimated at 33% and the NPV at $488 million at a discount rate of 8%. (Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability).
The project hosts a current NI 43-101-compliant Indicated resource of 26.5 million tonnes of 1.30% Li2O Eq. or 0.98% Li2O and 163 ppm Ta2O5 and an Inferred resource of 10.7 million tonnes of 1.14% Li2O Eq. or 0.86% Li2O and 145 ppm Ta2O5.
Critical Elements is presently in the tendering process for the various aspects of the feasibility study and has commissioned Genivar to complete an environmental impact study of Rose deposit and Acme Metallurgical Ltd. of Vancouver is carrying out project metallurgy.
Critical Elements' portfolio also includes rare-earth and tantalum-niobium projects in the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and in Quebec, as well as a 50% interest in the Croinor project, which is located in Quebec and hosts a current NI 43-101-compliant measured and indicated resource of 814,228 tonnes at 9.11 g/t Au, for 238,414 ounces of gold at a 5 g/t cut-off.
Jean-Sebastien Lavallee (OGQ #773), geologist, shareholder and president and chief executive officer of the Company and a Qualified Person under NI 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical content of this release.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Contacts:
Critical Elements shareholders:
Jean-Sebastien Lavallee, P. Geo, President & CEO
819-354-5146
Paradox Public Relations
514-341-0408
Media:
Frederic Berard, Vice President, Financial
and Regulatory Affairs and General Manager, Montreal
HKDP Communications and Public Affairs
514-395-0375
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