Ann: Mangaroon Rare Earths, Phosphate, Niobium & Zirconium, page-20

Another ripping announcement from Dready.
Interesting to note the Niobium factor and the insane numbers that we are encountering


It's also interesting to note that next door neighbour, Hastings are trying to push the Niobium case in their recent quarterly:



Niobium is on the critical list and fast becoming an important and exciting mineral on the technology front.



Newbury Park, CA – (November 9, 2021) Newbury Park startup, Battery Streak receives NSF grant and major investment from CBMM. This investment aims to accelerate new technologies with Niobium for lithium-ion batteries.
Battery Streak has closed a deal with CBMM, a global leader in Niobium products. CBMM has acquired a 20 percent stake in the U.S. battery start-up. This investment will allow Battery Steak to drive development and ramp production of its revolutionary, patented materials for a variety of applications including power tools, drones, medical devices, electric scooters, warehouse robots, and EVs, in civilian and military use cases.
This unique, new capability allows products to charge ultra-fast, in approximately 10 minutes, while providing a longer cycle life. Additionally, Battery Streak’s technology generates very little heat, even at this rapid charge rate.
With a long-term vision, CBMM has the prospect of continuing to invest in research and development of Niobium technologies for lithium-ion batteries. “We are working intensely with large partners to offer to the market batteries with unique characteristics, such as ultra-fast recharging, in less than 10 minutes, greater stability and safety. Battery Streak is fully aligned with this goal and will allow us to take an important step, allowing applications beyond the mobility market”, explains Rodrigo Amado, Strategy and New Businesses Manager at CBMM.

Roughly 81% of the 10,100 metric tons of niobium imported into the U.S. during 2020 was used
as an alloy in high-strength steel.
"Niobium microalloyed high strength steel plates are used in a variety of applications, such as
large diameter line pipe for the transmission of gas and oil, shipbuilding, offshore platforms,
bridges, and energy generation structures such as wind turbines," according to Oakley Steel.
The Asian steel supplier says that less than 0.1% niobium is all that is needed to boost the strength,
toughness, and weldability of steel.
Niobium's extreme resistance to heat and corrosion also makes this strong metal an important
ingredient for iron-, nickel- and cobalt-based superalloys that need to stand up to high
temperatures. Roughly 18% of the niobium consumed in the U.S. last year was used to make high -
temperature superalloys for parts that go into jet engines, rockets, gas turbines, and
turbochargers.
Adding to its résumé of "super" properties, niobium is among the most powerful superconducting
metals.
Superconducting magnets made from niobium-germanium, niobium-tin, and niobium-titanium
alloys are used in a range of important devices, from imaging equipment to particle accelerators.
The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, which use niobium superconducting magnets,
along with radio waves and a computer to create detailed images of the inside of a human body
– are among the applications of this critical metal's special characteristics.
Niobium superalloy magnets also play a crucial role in accelerating particles to near the speed of
light in the Large Hadron Collider, a 17-mile circular tunnel deep under the border between
Switzerland and France. The resulting high-energy collisions of protons help physicists investigate
dark matter, antimatter, and other secrets of the universe.
Niobium-titanium magnets currently being used to produce these powerful fields are being
replaced with even more powerful niobium-tin magnets used in the search for dark matter and
other cutting-edge experiments at the Large Hadron Collider.
International scientists are now floating the idea for the Future Circular Collider, a 62-mile
successor that would be 10 times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider. This massive
US$27.5 billion project would need a whole lot more niobium, along with other critical minerals.
Beyond its super characteristics, niobium is hypoallergenic and inert, making it a good candidate
for uses inside the human body, such as pacemakers and prosthetics.
Niobium is also one of the few metals that can be heated to produce a wide array of iridescent
colors. The heat creates anodized oxide layers on the surface of niobium that make this color -
changing effect by diffracting the light that bounces off it.

Dready has so many strings to their bow, massive year ahead IMHO!!