CENTENNIAL, Colo., June 28, 2018 -- NioCorp Developments Ltd. is pleased to provide an update on the progress of the detailed engineering study being conducted by the Nordmin Group of Companies on NioCorp’s proposed Elk Creek Nebraska, Critical Minerals Mine . The work has determined that incorporating industry-standard ground freezing technology during shaft sinking, coupled with the reduction in underground [...]
NioCorp Developments Ltd. , a developer of superalloy metals, has awarded a major contract to Rockwell Automation to engineer, design and procure process automation and instrumentation for NioCorp’s proposed critical minerals, mining and processing facility in Elk Creek, Nebraska. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180521005228/en/ Three [...]
CENTENNIAL, Colo., May 17, 2018 -- The Trump Administration will officially designate as “Critical Minerals” the entire planned product suite of superalloy metals that NioCorp Developments Ltd. proposes to mine and process at its Elk Creek, Nebraska Superalloy Materials project. The designation establishes the Elk Creek Project as one of the few polymetallic greenfield mining projects in the U.S. that proposes [...]
CENTENNIAL, Colo., March 09, 2018 -- NioCorp Developments Ltd. is pleased to announce the completion of an independent technical review of the Company’s Elk Creek Superalloy & Critical Minerals Project . The independent technical review, conducted by independent engineering firm RPM Global USA Inc., was commissioned by Northcott Capital Limited, which is leading NioCorp’s effort to assemble financing for the [...]
The Trump Administration has proposed including the superalloy metals niobium, scandium, and titanium among 35 “Critical Minerals” that are to be considered “vital to the Nation’s security and economic prosperity.” With its entire planned product suite now proposed as strategically vital by the U.S. Government, NioCorp’s Elk Creek Project is emerging as a highly unique “Critical [...]
NioCorp Awards Contract to The Nordmin Group for Detailed Engineeering of the Elk Creek Underground Mine Nordmin’s Primary Objectives are to Shorten the Project’s Time to Commercial Production, Reduce Environmental Impacts, and Reduce CAPEX and OPEX THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Feb. 07, 2018 -- NioCorp Developments Ltd. and the Nordmin Group of Companies are pleased to jointly announce the signing of an agreement for [...]
CENTENNIAL, Colo. , Jan. 24, 2018 -- NioCorp Developments Ltd. is pleased to announce that an entity managed by The Lind Partners, a New York-based asset management firm , will invest an additional US$2.5 million in the form of a convertible security under the second and final tranche of the convertible security funding agreement between NioCorp and Lind dated December 14, 2015, as amended . In addition, NioCorp has [...]
CENTENNIAL, Colo., Jan. 17, 2018 -- NioCorp Developments Ltd. today praised the efforts of U.S. Congressmen Don Bacon and Adrian Smith to have the Administration include Scandium in the “Critical Minerals” list now being developed in response to President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order of December 20, 2017 Nebraska stands to emerge as a major global producer of Scandium once NioCorp’s Elk Creek [...]
CENTENNIAL, Colo., Dec. 21, 2017 -- NioCorp Developments Ltd. today applauded the leadership of the White House in issuing an Executive Order yesterday aimed at accelerating U.S. production of critical minerals upon which the U.S. is largely import dependent. “The Executive Order signed this week by President Donald J. Trump marks a significant departure from U.S. Executive Branch policy priorities of recent years [...]
NioCorp Developments is pleased to announce that the State of Nebraska has conditionally approved a package of tax incentives for the Company’s Elk Creek Superalloy Project that may be worth more than $100 million over the first 10 years of the Project’s commercial operation. Even with these incentives, the Project is estimated to generate cumulative tax revenue to state and local Nebraska units of government [...]
CENTENNIAL, Colo., Dec. 15, 2017 -- NioCorp Developments Ltd. announces that, in connection with a review by the Ontario Securities Commission , it has filed a Revised Technical Report related to the Feasibility Study of the Company’s Elk Creek Superalloy Materials Project in Nebraska. The Revised Technical Report, which is available for download on SEDAR and on the Company’s website at www.niocorp.com [...]
CENTENNIAL, Colo., Nov. 10, 2017 -- NioCorp Developments Ltd. is pleased to announce the results of its 2017 Annual General Meeting , held on Thursday, November 9, 2017. Among the motions approved by NioCorp’s shareholders included the following: Approval of the number of directors; Re-election of all of NioCorp’s current Board members: Mark A. Smith, Joseph A. Carrabba, Michael Morris, David C. Beling, Anna [...]