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14 www.resourceworld.com A U G U S T / S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 tion and development business to include its cobalt assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Through its wholly-owned DRC subsidiary, it holds processing and export licenses for tin, tantalum, tungsten, cop - per and cobalt. COBC is the first mining and min- eral trade company set up specifically to procure cobalt in compliance with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development due diligence frame- work. COBC and its partners have developed and are implementing a Blockchain-based traceability and report- ing platform to provide greater certainty of provenance and further assurance that all minerals procured are ethically-sourced. MANGANESE Manganese X Energy Corp. [MN-TSXV; SNCGF-OTC; 9SC2-FSE; SSM-Lima] is planning a fall drill program to complete a NI 43-101 resource estimate with the inten - tion of upgrading the current classification of mineralization to the indicated resource status at the 100%-optioned Battery Hill manganese project in New Brunswick. The program will focus on near surface, higher grade areas of the deposit such as the Moody Hill sector. The company has been working with the National Research Council Canada studying the potential for ore upgrading and purification techniques to produce battery grade material. American Manganese Inc.'s [AMY- TSXV; AMYZF-OTC; 2AM-FSE] contract lab, Kemetco Research Inc., has produced a high-purity NMC (nickel-manganese- cobalt) hydroxide filter cake during the final stages of the RecycLiCo pilot plant project. In a press release, the company said that the advance in the company's lithium-ion battery cathode recycling process has led to extensive interest worldwide, with 31 non-disclosure agreements signed so far with a variety of industry players in nine different countries, all of which are or have conducted due diligence and feasibil - ity studies on the RecycLiCo process with the hope of entering into licensing or joint venture arrangements with the company. VANADIUM Largo Resources Ltd. [LGO-TSX; LGORF- OTCQX] owns and operates the Maracas Menchen open pit vanadium mine in Bahia state, Brazil, which produces vana- dium flake, high-purity vanadium flake and high-purity vanadium powder. O. 604.687.1828 | M. 778.686.0135 | TF. 1.800.901.0058 • Preliminary Economic Assessment • Low Cost Processing • Updated Uranium/Vanadium Mineral Resource Estimate • District Scale Uranium/Vanadium Potential along 145 km Trend TSX.V: BSK | OTC: BKUCF ENERGY METALS