+ Outcomes point out an after-tax IRR of 25.9% and an 8% low cost charge NPV of C$ 2,173 million based mostly on present pricing projections for flake focus.
+ The Uatnan Mining Venture helps NMG’s Part-3 growth plans with up to date operational parameters and manufacturing volumes in keeping with the Firm’s industrial discussions with OEMs and lithium-ion battery cell makers.
+ NMG has prolonged its imaginative and prescient of accountable mining to the Uatnan Mining Venture, together with transition plans for all-electric operations, superior environmental administration and proactive First Nation and group engagement, to supply battery and EV producers with responsibly extracted, environmentally reworked, and domestically sourced graphite-based options.
+ Shareholders and analysts are invited to attend an Investor Briefing right this moment at 10:30 a.m. ET hosted by NMG’s Administration Group by way of webcast: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PQUZCrddQuWmw0UUMersow
Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. (“NMG” or the “Firm”) ( NYSE: NMG , TSX.V: NOU ) in collaboration with Mason Graphite Inc. (“Mason Graphite”) (TSX.V: LLG, OTCQX: MGPHF) releases the outcomes of a preliminary financial evaluation (“PEA”), based on Nationwide Instrument 43-101 Requirements of Disclosure for Mineral Tasks (“NI 43-101”), for a brand new challenge masking Mason Graphite’s Lac Guéret graphite deposit, the Uatnan mining challenge (the “Uatnan Mining Venture”) situated in Québec, Canada.
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Location of the Uatnan Mining Venture (Photograph: Enterprise Wire)
The PEA, carried out by engineering corporations BBA Inc. (“BBA”) and GoldMinds Geoservices Inc. (“GMG”), exhibits sturdy economics for NMG’s up to date operational parameters and manufacturing volumes focusing on the manufacturing of roughly 500,000 tonnes of graphite focus every year over a 24-year lifetime of mine (“LOM”). The proposed Uatnan Mining Venture is presently one of many largest projected pure graphite productions on this planet as battery and electrical automobile (“EV”) producers search native options for sourcing their graphite-based options amidst rising demand and a projected structural deficit of manufacturing as of this yr as supported by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence (December 2022).
Arne H Frandsen, Chair of NMG, declared: “NMG’s imaginative and prescient is to change into North America’s most essential producer of battery grade graphite. The Uatnan Mining Venture aligns with our imaginative and prescient of progressive, built-in progress that caters to the market’s necessities for high-quality graphite supplies, native provides, ESG-driven growth, and enormous volumes to satisfy EV manufacturing ranges. Constructing on our Matawinie graphite operation’s successes, I’m assured that our prolonged technical group’s experience will allow us to develop what’s projected to change into one of many world’s largest graphite mines.”
Eric Desaulniers, Founder, President and CEO of NMG, added: “Whereas the core of NMG’s technical group is extraordinarily targeted on creating and advancing our Part-2 Matawinie Mine and Bécancour Battery Materials initiatives, it has change into more and more essential for our prospects and strategic for our shareholders to speed up the deployment of our Part 3. It’s our intention to seize as a lot market share as potential throughout this historic interval of progress of lithium-ion battery manufacturing in North America and Europe. I’m wanting to work with the Innu First Nation of Pessamit and stakeholders from the Manicouagan area to revive the mining growth of this world-class deposit. The PEA confirms the super potential of the Uatnan Mining Venture as a lever of decarbonization for cleantech markets and socioeconomic progress for native communities. We are going to leverage our current Part-1 services, the environmental stewardship measures being developed for our Part-2 operations, our proprietary applied sciences, and our demonstrated ESG credentials to advance the Uatnan Mining Venture towards growth. ”
PEA Outcomes: Uncovering the Potential of the Uatnan Mining Venture
NMG and its consultants revisited all parts of Mason Graphite’s unique mining challenge to align the event of the Lac Guéret graphite deposit with right this moment’s market alternative and potential prospects’ necessities. The latest technical report from Mason Graphite (SEDAR, Feasibility examine replace of the Lac Guéret Graphite Venture issued on December 11, 2018) deliberate for a manufacturing of 51,900 tonnes of graphite focus every year, with the concentrator and tailings storage facility situated offsite within the city of Baie-Comeau, roughly 285 km to the south by street from the mining operations.
The PEA optimizes the Mineral Assets and goals to broaden the unique mining challenge tenfold by focusing on the manufacturing of roughly 500,000 tonnes of graphite focus every year, totally destined for the anode materials manufacturing market. The concentrator has been relocated to be close to the deposit with electrical wants that could possibly be sourced from the Manic-5 hydroelectric energy station, situated 70 km away.
According to NMG’s accountable mining method, plans embrace progressive website closure with backfilling of the pit with waste rock as a lot as potential. Further characterization of waste rock and tailings shall be included within the subsequent engineering section to pick correct tailings and waste rock administration applied sciences. Current baseline research shall be up to date based mostly on the examine space to determine any environmental points, consider potential impacts and develop options for the Uatnan Mining Venture.
Business parameters have been set utilizing present projections of pricing ready by a third-party professional for flake focus. Design of the Uatnan Mining Venture has been tailor-made to the wants of the battery and EV market, orienting manufacturing volumes for beneficiation to be able to produce energetic anode materials. Pure flake graphite is predicted to enter a structural deficit as of 2023 as a result of continued progress of lithium-ion battery manufacturing, outpacing provide capability from graphite producers (Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, December 2022). Therefore, market views and NMG’s energetic industrial discussions point out favorable situations for commercializing the Uatnan Mining Venture manufacturing.
The next lists the financial highlights and operational parameters developed within the PEA. Graphite is expressed in graphitic carbon (“Cg”):
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Desk 1: Operational Parameters of the Uatnan Mining Venture |
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OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS |
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LOM |
24 years |
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Nominal annual processing charge |
3.4 M tonnes |
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Stripping ratio (LOM) |
1.3:1 |
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Common grade (LOM) |
17.5% Cg |
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Common graphite restoration |
85% |
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Common annual graphite focus manufacturing (LOM) |
500,000 tonnes |
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Completed product purity |
94% Cg |
Cautionary Notice: The PEA is preliminary in nature and contains Inferred Mineral Assets, thought of too speculative geologically to have the financial issues utilized to them that might allow them to be categorized as Mineral Reserves, and there’s no certainty that the PEA shall be realized. Mineral sources that aren’t mineral reserves haven’t demonstrated financial viability. Further trenching and/or drilling shall be required to transform inferred mineral sources to indicated or measured mineral sources. There is no such thing as a certainty that the sources growth, manufacturing, and financial forecasts on which this PEA is predicated shall be realized.
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Desk 2: Financial Highlights of the Uatnan Mining Venture |
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ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS |
Uatnan Mining Venture |
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Pre-tax NPV (8% low cost charge) |
C$ 3,613 M |
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After-tax NPV (8 % low cost charge) |
C$ 2,173 M |
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Pre-tax IRR |
32.6% |
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After-tax IRR |
25.9% |
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Pre-tax payback |
2.8 years |
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After-tax payback |
3.2 years |
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Preliminary CAPEX |
C$ 1,417 M |
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Sustaining CAPEX |
C$ 147 M |
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LOM OPEX |
C$ 3,236 M |
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Annual OPEX |
C$ 135 M |
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OPEX per tonne of graphite focus |
C$ 268/tonne |
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Focus promoting worth |
US$ 1,100/tonne |
All prices are in Canadian {dollars} aside from the graphite sale worth which is supplied in US {dollars}.
Capital expenditure (“CAPEX”) and operational expenditure (“OPEX”) have been established from check work outcomes, provider quotations and marketing consultant in-house databases. Estimates presently being on the market’s peak as influenced by inflationary traits, NMG, Mason Graphite and their consulting corporations have refined design, engineering, and building parameters to allow price optimization and aggressive pricing. Québec’s inexpensive clear hydropower underpins the Uatnan Mining Venture’s financial construction and helps NMG’s undeterred carbon-neutrality dedication.
Contemplating the numerous modifications to Mason Graphite’s unique challenge, NMG initiated a reputation change with the collaboration of the Innu First Nation of Pessamit. The deposit is situated on the Nitassinan, the Innu of Pessamit’s ancestral territory, in a sector known as Ka uatshinakanishkat which means “the place there may be Tamarack”. Therefore, the identify Uatnan which means Tamarack, a conifer distinguished within the space, was chosen to determine the property and challenge. The graphite deposit recognized on the property continues to be known as the Lac Guéret deposit.
Preliminary modelling signifies that the Uatnan Mining Venture would create roughly 300 direct jobs.
The Property
The Uatnan property presently consists of 74 map-designated claims totalling 3,999.52 hectares (“ha”), wholly owned (100%) by Mason Graphite. The Uatnan Mining Venture lies inside Nitassinan, the Innu of Pessamit’s ancestral territory and the Rivière-aux-Outardes municipality situated within the Côte-Nord administrative area, Québec, Canada, roughly 220 km because the crow flies, north northwest of the closest group, the city of Baie-Comeau. The Uatnan Mining Venture is accessible by street 389 after which by following Class 1 forestry roads.
Exploration work on the Uatnan property focused graphite mineralization and consists thus far of airborne geophysics, prospecting, floor geophysics, trenching/channel sampling and core drilling. Bulk floor samples and core samples have been additionally collected for metallurgical and geomechanical assessments. Exploration work uncovered important crystalline flake graphite mineralization, finally resulting in the identification of Mineral Assets and Mineral Reserves (see Mason Graphite’s press launch dated November 9, 2015). On account of important modifications to the challenge scope, as talked about above, it was determined that the Uatnan Mining Venture would revert to a Preliminary Financial Evaluation degree.
On Might 15, 2022, NMG concluded an funding to discover the potential growth of the Lac Guéret graphite property (now the Uatnan Property). This settlement aligns with NMG’s progress technique with a view to establishing a big, scalable, and absolutely vertically built-in pure graphite manufacturing, from ore to battery supplies, on the western markets’ doorstep.
Mineral Assets
Present Mineral Assets (Desk 3) have been estimated for the Uatnan property based mostly on 25,956 assay intervals collected from 43,343.1 m of core drilling and 4 floor trenches offering 207 channel samples totalling 721.7 m. Correct high quality management measures, together with the insertion of duplicate, clean and customary samples, have been used all through the exploration applications and returned inside acceptable limits. Though parameters to find out affordable prospects for eventual financial extraction (RPEE) have been up to date (Desk 4), there are not any important modifications between the present Mineral Assets and the Mineral Assets final printed on November 9, 2015.
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Desk 3: Present Pit-Constrained Mineral Useful resource Estimate |
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IN-PIT CONSTRAINED MINERAL |
Tonnes (Mt) |
Grade (% Cg) |
Cg (Mt) |
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Measured 5.75% |
15.65 |
15.2 |
2.38 |
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Measured Cg > 25% |
3.35 |
30.6 |
1.02 |
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Complete Measured |
19.02 |
17.9 |
3.40 |
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Indicated 5.75% |
40.29 |
14.6 |
5.89 |
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Indicated Cg > 25% |
6.33 |
31.6 |
2.00 |
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Complete Indicated |
46.62 |
16.9 |
7.89 |
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Indicated + Measured 5.75% |
55.94 |
14.8 |
8.27 |
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Indicated + Measured Cg > 25% |
9.70 |
31.2 |
3.03 |
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Complete Measured + Indicated |
65.64 |
17.2 |
11.30 |
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Inferred 5.75% |
15.35 |
14.9 |
2.28 |
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Inferred Cg > 25% |
2.47 |
31.8 |
0.79 |
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Complete Inferred |
17.82 |
17.2 |
3.07 |
Notes :
- The Mineral Assets supplied on this desk have been estimated by M. Rachidi P.Geo., and C. Duplessis, Eng., (QPs) of GoldMinds Geoservices Inc., utilizing present Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) Requirements on Mineral Assets and Reserves, Definitions and Tips.
- Mineral Assets which aren’t Mineral Reserves don’t have demonstrated financial viability. The estimate of Mineral Assets could also be materially affected by environmental, allowing, authorized, title, market or different related points. The amount and grade of reported Inferred Mineral Assets are unsure in nature and there has not been ample work to outline these Inferred Mineral Assets as indicated or Measured Mineral Assets. There is no such thing as a certainty that any a part of a Mineral Useful resource will ever be transformed into Mineral Reserves.
- The Mineral Assets introduced right here have been estimated with a block measurement of 3mE x 3mN x 3mZ. The blocks have been interpolated from equal-length composites (3 m) calculated from the mineralized intervals.
- The Mineral Useful resource estimate was accomplished utilizing the inverse distance to the sq. methodology using three runs. For run 1, the variety of composites was restricted to 10 with a most of two composites from the identical drillhole. For runs two and three the variety of composites was restricted to 10 with a most of 1 composite from the identical drillhole.
- The Measured Mineral Assets labeled utilizing a minimal of 4 drillholes. Indicated sources labeled utilizing a minimal of two drillholes. The Inferred Mineral Assets have been labeled by a minimal of 1 drillholes.
- Tonnage estimates are based mostly on a hard and fast density of two.9 t/m 3 .
- A pit shell to constrain the Mineral Assets was developed utilizing the parameters introduced in Desk 4 . The efficient date of the present Mineral Assets is January 10, 2023.
- Mineral Assets are acknowledged at a cut-off grade of 5.75% C(g).
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Desk 4: Parameters used to develop the pit shell to constrain the Mineral Assets |
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PARAMETERS |
Worth |
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Mining price |
C$ 4.00/t mined |
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Processing price |
C$ 36.00/t milled |
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Tailings administration price |
C$ 2.00/t milled |
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G&A value |
C$ 5.00/t milled |
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Mill restoration |
85% |
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Focus grade |
94% |
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Focus worth |
C$ 1,500 /t |
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Manufacturing charge |
3.4 Mtpa |
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Total pit slope |
50% |
Mining
The mining technique chosen for the Uatnan Mining Venture is a standard open pit, truck and shovel, drill, and blast operation. Topsoil and overburden can be stripped and stockpiled for future reclamation use. The mineralization and waste rock can be mined with 9-m excessive benches, drilled, blasted, and loaded into 60-tonne rigid-frame haul vehicles with backhoe excavators.
To reduce the environmental footprint of the Uatnan Mining Venture, waste rock can be hauled to the tailings storage facility the place it will be disposed of with the tailings. As of yr 5 of operations, waste rock can be backfilled into the mined-out open pit when potential. The next desk presents the subset of Mineral Assets throughout the pit design for the PEA.
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Desk 5: Subset of Mineral Assets throughout the Pit Design for the PEA |
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DESCRIPTION |
Tonnes |
Cg Grade |
In-Situ Graphite |
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Measured sources |
18.7 |
17.9 |
3.3 |
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Indicated sources |
43.5 |
17.1 |
7.4 |
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Complete M&I sources |
62.2 |
17.3 |
10.8 |
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Inferred sources |
14.2 |
18.0 |
2.6 |
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Overburden & waste rock |
102.6 |
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The mine can be operated by an proprietor fleet, seven days per week, 24 hours per day and be comprised of a 4‑crew system engaged on a two-week in, two-week out rotation. NMG intends to deploy a zero-emission working technique with a battery-powered fleet of haul vehicles and electrical gear because the know-how turns into accessible. Within the meantime, the PEA used a base case with a diesel-operated fleet.
Processing & Restoration
The method circulation sheet was developed utilizing the identical metallurgical foundation used for Mason Graphite’s up to date Feasibility Examine issued on December 11, 2018. The primary distinction between the 2 flowsheets, aside from the elevated plant capability, is the meant end-use of the fabric. Provided that 100% of the graphite focus produced from the Uatnan Mining Venture is destined for the battery market, preserving flake sizes is not thought of within the processing route. Given this consideration, the flowsheet was simplified by lowering the variety of each sprucing and cleaner flotation phases from 4 to 2. This alteration minimizes the variety of grinding mills and flotation cells required, lowering each the capital and working prices for the Uatnan Mining Venture.
The flowsheet consists of a mineral sizer to cut back the scale of the run of mine (“ROM”) mineral earlier than it’s fed to a SAG mill for major grinding. The bottom mineral then undergoes rougher flotation, after which the reground and scavenged focus is mixed with the rougher focus for additional processing. The focus then undergoes two extra phases of regrinding, first in a ball mill forward of the primary cleansing step, then a second regrind in a tower mill forward of secondary cleansing. The ensuing focus undergoes a last deliming stage to take away low-grade minus 20-micron particles to maximise the ultimate focus grade. The concentrator tailings are filtered and delivered to the tailings storage facility. The focus is filtered and dried earlier than being trucked 285 km to Baie-Comeau for transport to market.
Financial Analysis
The CAPEX, summarized under, covers the event of the mine, processing services, and infrastructure required for the Uatnan Mining Venture. It’s based mostly on the applying of ordinary costing strategies of reaching a PEA which supplies the accuracy of -30% to +50%. The working price covers mining, processing, focus haulage, tailings and water administration, basic and administration charges, in addition to infrastructure and providers.
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Desk 6: Abstract of Uatnan Mining Venture CAPEX Prices |
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SECTOR |
LOM CAPEX ($M) |
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Mining |
61 |
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Web site infrastructure |
55 |
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Offsite infrastructure |
184 |
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Water remedy and tailings |
118 |
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Ore crushing and course of plant |
548 |
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Oblique |
319 |
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Contingency |
279 |
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TOTAL CAPEX |
1,564 |
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Preliminary CAPEX |
1,417 |
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Sustaining CAPEX |
147 |
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Desk 7: Abstract of Most important Uatnan Mining Venture OPEX Prices |
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SECTOR |
LOM OPEX Price ($M) |
C$/t Conc. |
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Mining and tailings |
917 |
76 |
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Processing |
1,620 |
134 |
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Water administration |
134 |
11 |
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G&A |
565 |
47 |
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TOTAL |
3,236 |
268 |
Subsequent Steps and High quality Assurance
The PEA exhibits that the Uatnan Mining Venture is technically possible in addition to economically viable. It additional strengthens NMG’s energetic industrial discussions and the Firm’s plans for progress via a Part-3 growth.
On the premise of those constructive outcomes, NMG intends to launch an up to date feasibility examine in compliance with the possibility and three way partnership settlement signed with Mason Graphite . The Uatnan Mining Venture should undergo the method of the Authorities of Québec’s Setting High quality Act with the target of acquiring a ministerial decree.
NMG is dedicated to extending its method of open and proactive engagement with Indigenous Peoples and native stakeholders to the Uatnan Mining Venture. The Firm plans to keep up a clear dialogue with the Innu First Nation of Pessamit because it advances the challenge growth to make sure the respect of their rights, the safety of the atmosphere, their tradition, lifestyle and spirituality, in addition to the inclusion of their perspective, and conventional data. NMG additionally pledges to broaden its relationships with stakeholders from all horizons to foster mechanisms for collaboration and form a challenge producing shared worth.
Shareholders and analysts are invited to attend a webcast Investor Briefing this morning, Tuesday, January 10, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. ET. Hosted by President and CEO Eric Desaulniers with the participation of NMG’s Administration Group, the briefing will entail a technical presentation adopted by a question-and-answer session. Registration ought to be accomplished previous to the beginning of the briefing at: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PQUZCrddQuWmw0UUMersow .
There is no such thing as a certainty that the financial forecasts on which this PEA is predicated shall be realized. The PEA is preliminary in nature and contains Inferred Mineral Assets which can be thought of too speculative geologically to have the financial issues utilized to them that might allow them to be categorized as Mineral Reserves, and there’s no certainty that the PEA shall be realized. Mineral Assets that aren’t Mineral Reserves haven’t demonstrated financial viability. Further trenching and/or drilling shall be required to transform Inferred Mineral Assets to Indicated or Measured Mineral Assets. There is no such thing as a certainty that the sources growth, manufacturing, and financial forecasts on which this PEA is predicated shall be realized. There are a variety of dangers and uncertainties identifiable to any new challenge and normally cowl the mineralization, mineral processing, monetary, environmental and allowing points. NMG’s Part-3 is not any completely different, and an analysis of the potential dangers was undertaken as a part of the PEA.
Scientific and technical info introduced on this press launch was reviewed and accredited by André Allaire, P.Eng. (BBA), Jeffrey Cassoff, P.Eng. (BBA), Claude Duplessis (GoldMinds Geoservices), and Merouane Rachidi, P.Geo. (GoldMinds Geoservices) Certified Individuals as outlined below NI 43-101.
The PEA for the Uatnan Mining Venture, ready in accordance with NI 43-101 pointers, shall be filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com , EDGAR at www.sec.gov and on the Firm’s web site at www.NMG.com inside 45 days of this press launch. Readers are inspired to learn the PEA in its entirety, together with all {qualifications}, assumptions and exclusions that relate to the main points summarized on this press launch. The PEA is meant to be learn as an entire, and sections shouldn’t be learn or relied upon out of context.
About Nouveau Monde Graphite
Nouveau Monde Graphite is striving to change into a key contributor to the sustainable power revolution. The Firm is working in direction of creating a completely built-in supply of carbon-neutral battery anode materials in Québec, Canada for the rising lithium-ion and gas cell markets. With low-cost operations and enviable ESG requirements, NMG aspires to change into a strategic provider to the world’s main battery and car producers, offering high-performing and dependable superior supplies whereas selling sustainability and provide chain traceability. www.NMG.com
About Mason Graphite
Mason Graphite is a Canadian company targeted on looking for funding alternatives. Its technique is to develop vertical and horizontal integration within the mining business, with a particular give attention to industrial and specialty minerals, notably battery-related supplies and their by-products. Its technique additionally contains the event of value-added merchandise, notably for inexperienced applied sciences like transport electrification. The Firm presently owns 100% of the rights to the Lac Guéret deposit, one of many richest graphite deposits on this planet, which is below an Choice and Joint Enterprise Settlement with Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. (TSX-V: NOU) (NYSE: NMG). Mason Graphite can also be the most important shareholder of Black Swan Graphene Inc., a Canadian publicly traded firm (TSX-V: SWAN) (OTCQB: BSWGF) specializing in the large-scale manufacturing and commercialization of patented high-performance and low-cost graphene merchandise geared toward a number of industrial sectors, together with concrete, polymers, Li-ion batteries and others.
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All statements, aside from statements of historic reality, contained on this press launch together with, however not restricted to these describing the affect of the foregoing on the Uatnan Mining Venture economics, PEA outcomes (as such outcomes are set out within the varied tables featured above, and are commented within the textual content of this press launch), together with CAPEX, OPEX, NPV and IRR, the estimated worth of the Uatnan Mining Venture, operations growth eventualities for the Uatnan Mining Venture, industrial and technical parameters, the enticing economics for the Uatnan Mining Venture, LOM plans, the Firm’s meant advertising and marketing technique, , market traits, future graphite costs, the affect of the Uatnan Mining Venture on the native communities, together with job creation, the projected annual manufacturing of the Firm’s Part-3 operations, the anticipated electrification technique and its meant outcomes and advantages, the potential outcomes and advantages of the Firm’s proprietary applied sciences, the timelines and prices associated to the assorted initiatives, deliverables and milestones described on this press launch and their anticipated outcomes, the Firm’s anticipated monetary and operational efficiency, the character of relationships with stakeholders comparable to the local people together with the Innu First Nation of Pessamit, future demand for batteries and EVs, the target of creating one of many largest absolutely built-in pure graphite operations within the World, the manufacturing of carbon-neutral anode materials, Mineral Useful resource estimates (together with assumptions and estimates utilized in making ready the Mineral Useful resource estimates), the final enterprise and operational outlook of the Firm, the Firm’s future progress and enterprise prospects, the Firm’s ESG commitments, initiatives and objectives, and people statements that are mentioned below the “About Nouveau Monde” paragraph and elsewhere within the press launch which primarily describe the Firm’s outlook and goals, represent “forward-looking info” or “forward-looking statements” (collectively, “forward-looking statements”) throughout the which means of Canadian and United States securities legal guidelines, and are based mostly on expectations, estimates and projections as of the time of this press launch. Ahead-looking statements are essentially based mostly upon numerous estimates and assumptions that, whereas thought of affordable by the Firm as of the time of such statements, are inherently topic to important enterprise, financial and aggressive uncertainties and contingencies. These estimates and assumptions could show to be incorrect. Furthermore, these forward-looking statements have been based mostly upon varied underlying elements and assumptions, together with the present technological traits, the enterprise relationship between the Firm and its stakeholders, the flexibility to function in a secure and efficient method, the well timed supply and set up at estimated costs of the gear supporting the manufacturing, assumed sale costs for graphite focus , the accuracy of any Mineral Useful resource estimates, future foreign money alternate charges and rates of interest, political and regulatory stability, costs of commodity and manufacturing prices, the receipt of governmental, regulatory and third social gathering approvals, licenses and permits on favorable phrases, sustained labor stability, stability in monetary and capital markets, availability of apparatus and important provides, spare elements and consumables, the assorted tax assumptions, CAPEX and OPEX estimates, the Uatnan Mining Venture permits’ standing, all financial and operational projections referring to the challenge, native infrastructures, the Firm’s enterprise prospects and alternatives and estimates of the operational efficiency of the gear, and usually are not ensures of future efficiency.
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Director, Investor Relations
+1-450-757-8905 #993
[email protected]
