First Cobalt to get $600,000 in US DoE funding over two years for collaborative mineral processing research program
The funds will go towards research conducted in conjunction with the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy at the Colorado School of Mines, to identify efficient and environmentally friendly methods to process cobalt ore from pyrite
More than 200kg of drill core material has been shipped to the Colorado School of Mines, which will work to further characterize the physical properties of cobalt ore
First Cobalt Corp (CVE:FCC) (OTCQX:FTSSF) (FRA:18P) announced that it has been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy's Critical Materials Institute (CMI) to research innovative mineral processing techniques for its Iron Creek copper-cobalt project in Idaho.