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Oct 6, 2026
Niobium, Scandium and Rare Earths in the US, But Can They Fund The Capex? | NioCorp CEO Interview
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34:28AntonioHOST
Enough smelling here, though, Mark.
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34:30AntonioHOST
Let's talk a little bit about the history of Elk Creek because it's got a history, right? It's been explored or it was explored extensively over a period of time, about 50 years ago at this point, briefly even by Cominco, but mostly by that company that we talked about earlier, Mollicorp.
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34:48AntonioHOST
They mostly drilled into the carbonitide in the late 70s through the mid-80s is what they've written down, drilled more than 100 holes, and they defined a historic niobium estimate on it.
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34:58AntonioHOST
So from the get-go, this was a niobium thing.
Nine Mile Metals (CSE:NINE) - Three Wedge Lenses and a Funded Path to Resource
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8:57Patrick CruickshankGUEST
So the historical numbers...
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9:00Patrick CruickshankGUEST
And we have all 300 drill holes that Cominco did back in the 50s and early 60s when it was in production.
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9:06Patrick CruickshankGUEST
We know what they never got to, but that was all that was known back then.
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9:10Patrick CruickshankGUEST
They didn't have the technology.