Time will tell, but my interest in CLQ's scandium deposit was piqued by articles such as that which I have posted a link to below.
http://www.techmetalsresearch.com/2014/03/fuel-cell-vehicles-and-critical-metals-supply-and-demand/
'The thing that all current fuel-cell technologies have in common, is that they rely for their operation on large amounts of very scarce materials such as PGMs or Sc, as in the discussion above.'
'The best solution for constructing fuel cells is not to use environmentally precious Pd or any other PGM in such a horribly wasteful way. Unfortunately, the best SOFC, based on Sc, is an even worse solution. There simply is not enough Sc produced in the world. Currently just a few tons a year are produced, so it is believed, in the former Soviet Union.'
'There is a real analogy here to the REE supply issue now facing the world, and even an interface, since Sc is only likely ever to be produced as a byproduct of REE production (which itself is ironically usually produced as a byproduct of iron mining).'
'What little Sc is produced in the world may be augmented by the three processes above, but officially there is no verifiable Sc production anywhere. So, if there is to be a fuel-cell-powered OEM automotive power-train revolution, it will have to be itself driven by a fuel-cell technology that as of now is unproven, and does not involve a need for large quantities of either PGMs or Sc.'
'At the moment, supplies of PGMs and Sc globally are either insufficient or unavailable. Thus fuel-cell-powered vehicles will be curiosities, or the toys of the elites, for the foreseeable future.'
CLQ's scandium deposit and associated technology could be a game changer.
