Close to USD 10 Billion Scandium reserves in Crater Lake?This is not an investm,ent advide. However, think abouta that.
Supposing the coming NI 43-101 Report results 600 x 200 x 80 m volume of Scandium Ore averaging 300 ppm Sc2O3 gives almost 30 Million tonnes of Ore. With these numbers the total Sc2O3 content is 8 928 tonnes. Upgrading with 85% recovery in minerals processig and 87% recovery in hydrothermal extraction gives 6 602 tonnes of saleable Sc2O3 product. Using the price of 1250 USD/kg for Sc2O3 this is wort of 8.25 Billion USD. Can you imagine that!
With annual 100 tonnes production the life of mine is 89 years wit annual sales of 125 Million USD. (notice capex and opex not included).