Stillwater Important Minerals Companions with Cornell College on Hydrometallurgy and Carbon Sequestration Initiatives for its Stillwater West Ni-PGE-Cu-Co + Au

• Firm to Take part in US Division of Vitality’s MINER Kickoff Occasion in Austin, Texas

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / February 14, 2023 / Stillwater Important Minerals (TSX.V:PGE) (OTCQB:PGEZF) (FSE:5D32) (the “Firm” or “SWCM”) is happy to announce it has partnered with Cornell College underneath the MINER program, funded by the U.S. Division of Vitality (“DOE”) by way of the Superior Analysis Tasks Company program (“ARPA-E”). Take a look at work, led by Dr. Greeshma Gadikota, will deal with novel hydrometallurgical strategies and carbon seize, with the target of accelerating the extraction of essential minerals utilizing decreased vitality for a carbon detrimental mining future.

Cornell College is the recipient of a federal grant from ARPA-E as a part of a program entitled “Supercritical CO2-Primarily based Mining for Carbon-Adverse Important Mineral Restoration”. Cornell College seeks to advance CO₂-sourced hydrometallurgical pathways for recovering vitality essential metals, together with nickel, cobalt, platinum and palladium, coupled to the carbon mineralization of calcium and magnesium elements to provide calcium and magnesium carbonates. Novel purposeful supplies for the selective seize and restoration of those vitality essential metals will probably be developed. Numerous sources for CO₂ will probably be investigated together with air for steel restoration coupled to carbon mineralization. These approaches will probably be particularly tuned to the mineralogy of the Firm’s Stillwater West venture in Montana.

Dr. Greeshma Gadikota acknowledged, “The U.S. imports the nice majority of its vitality essential metals from mines everywhere in the world, leaving the U.S. fairly weak. Our analysis is all about decarbonizing the mining business and growing an impartial, home provide chain of those essential metals. It is vital for U.S. manufacturing, inexperienced vitality, nationwide safety, and competitiveness.”

Referring to the Cornell College partnership, Firm President and CEO, Michael Rowley, will be a part of Dr. Gadikota on the ARPA-E MINER kick-off occasion in Austin, Texas on February 14 and 15, 2023. Different presenters and attendees embrace Tesla Motors, main mining corporations, high US authorities officers and monetary establishments. Extra info on the MINER program is out there right here: https://arpa-e.vitality.gov/applied sciences/applications/miner.

Michael Rowley, Stillwater Important Minerals President & CEO, acknowledged, “We’re very happy to be chosen because the business associate for Dr. Gadikota’s cutting-edge work and to work intently along with her group towards our shared imaginative and prescient of securing the long run home provide of the essential minerals the US so urgently wants. Our Stillwater West venture is quickly advancing as a possible large-scale, low-carbon supply of nickel, copper, cobalt, palladium, platinum and rhodium. Situated in an energetic and increasing US mining district with a protracted historical past of essential minerals manufacturing and demonstrated world-class scale and grade, Stillwater West is on a really brief listing of property with the potential to play a big position in realizing the targets set out within the bipartisan Inflation Discount Act, and different ongoing initiatives. It’s our perception that mining can do greater than provide minerals by standard means, and that partnerships akin to this are the trail towards extra sustainable practices.”

About Dr. Greeshma Gadikota

Dr. Greeshma Gadikota is an Assistant Professor and Croll Sesquicentennial Fellow within the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a discipline appointment within the Smith Faculty of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell College. Dr. Gadikota directs the Sustainable Vitality and Useful resource Restoration Group. She held postdoctoral analysis affiliate appointments at Princeton College and Columbia College, and a analysis affiliate appointment on the Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how (NIST). Her PhD in Chemical Engineering and MS levels in Chemical Engineering and Operations Analysis are from Columbia College. Her BS in Chemical Engineering is from Michigan State College. She is a recipient of the DOE, NSF and ARO CAREER Awards, Sigma Xi Younger Investigator Award, Cornell Engineering Analysis Excellence Award, Inaugural Cornell Rising Ladies Innovator Award, and AICHE Sabic Award for Younger Professionals from the Particle Know-how Discussion board. Dr. Gadikota acquired her PhD in Chemical Engineering and earned her MS levels in Chemical Engineering and Operations Analysis, from Columbia College. Her BS in Chemical Engineering is from Michigan State College.

Analysis Pursuits

With greater than 80% of our vitality sources recovered from the subsurface environments which requires about 50 billion cubic meters of recent water and contributes to greater than 75% of worldwide CO₂ emissions, our grand societal problem lies in assembly our rising demand for vitality and sources whereas decreasing environmental influence. Addressing these earth-scale challenges requires us to develop novel applied sciences to engineer focused physico-chemical interactions in advanced engineered and pure environments. Enabling emergent applied sciences for a sustainable earth requires us to advance the cross-scale science of fluid-solid interactions in advanced and excessive environments. With this attitude, our analysis is directed in direction of purposes that contain (i) engineering the pure atmosphere for sustainable vitality and useful resource restoration and (ii) designing novel chemical pathways for advancing low carbon and detrimental emissions applied sciences.

About ARPA-E

The Superior Analysis Tasks Company-Vitality (ARPA-E advances high-potential, high-impact vitality applied sciences which are too early for private-sector funding. ARPA-E awardees are distinctive as a result of they’re growing solely new methods to generate, retailer, and use vitality. ARPA-E initiatives have the potential to radically enhance U.S. financial prosperity, nationwide safety, and environmental well-being. We deal with transformational vitality initiatives that may be meaningfully superior with a small quantity of funding over an outlined time period. Our streamlined awards course of allows us to behave rapidly and catalyze cutting-edge areas of vitality analysis.

ARPA-E empowers America’s vitality researchers with funding, technical help, and market readiness. Our rigorous program design, aggressive venture choice course of, and energetic program administration guarantee considerate expenditures. ARPA-E Program Administrators serve for restricted phrases to make sure a relentless infusion of recent considering and new views. To be taught extra go to: https://arpa-e.vitality.gov/.

About Stillwater Important Minerals Corp.

Stillwater Important Minerals (TSX.V: PGE | OTCQB: PGEZF) is a mineral exploration firm centered on its flagship Stillwater West Ni-PGE-Cu-Co + Au venture within the iconic and famously productive Stillwater mining district in Montana, USA. With the current addition of two famend Bushveld and Platreef geologists to the group, the Firm is nicely positioned to advance the subsequent section of large-scale essential mineral provide from this world-class American district, constructing on previous manufacturing of nickel, copper, and chromium, and the on-going manufacturing of platinum group and different metals by neighboring Sibanye-Stillwater. Per an expanded NI 43-101 mineral useful resource estimate launched January 2023, the Platreef-style nickel and copper sulphide deposits at Stillwater West comprise 1.6 billion kilos of nickel, copper and cobalt, and three.8 million ounces of palladium, platinum, rhodium, and gold, in a compelling suite of essential minerals and are open for growth alongside pattern and at depth.

Stillwater Important Minerals additionally holds the high-grade Black Lake-Drayton Gold venture adjoining to Treasury Metals’ development-stage Goliath Gold Advanced in northwest Ontario, at the moment underneath an earn-in settlement with Heritage Mining, and the Kluane PGE-Ni-Cu-Co essential minerals venture on pattern with Nickel Creek Platinum‘s Wellgreen deposit in Canada‘s Yukon Territory.

Word 1: References to adjoining properties are for illustrative functions solely and usually are not essentially indicative of the exploration potential, extent or nature of mineralization or potential future outcomes of the Firm’s initiatives.

Word 2: Magmatic Ore Deposits in Layered Intrusions-Descriptive Mannequin for Reef-Sort PGE and Contact-Sort Cu-Ni-PGE Deposits, Michael Zientek, USGS Open-File Report 2012-1010.

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Ahead-Trying Statements

Ahead Trying Statements: This information launch contains sure statements that could be deemed “forward-looking statements”. All statements on this launch, aside from statements of historic info together with, with out limitation, statements concerning potential mineralization, historic manufacturing, estimation of mineral sources, the conclusion of mineral useful resource estimates, interpretation of prior exploration and potential exploration outcomes, the timing and success of exploration actions typically, the timing and outcomes of future useful resource estimates, allowing time traces, steel costs and forex alternate charges, availability of capital, authorities regulation of exploration operations, environmental dangers, reclamation, title, and future plans and aims of the corporate are forward-looking statements that contain numerous dangers and uncertainties. Though Stillwater Important Minerals believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking statements are based mostly on cheap assumptions, such statements usually are not ensures of future efficiency and precise outcomes or developments could differ materially from these within the forward-looking statements. Ahead-looking statements are based mostly on various materials elements and assumptions. Elements that would trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these in forward-looking statements embrace failure to acquire vital approvals, unsuccessful exploration outcomes, modifications in venture parameters as plans proceed to be refined, outcomes of future useful resource estimates, future steel costs, availability of capital and financing on acceptable phrases, basic financial, market or enterprise situations, dangers related to regulatory modifications, defects in title, availability of personnel, supplies and tools on a well timed foundation, accidents or tools breakdowns, uninsured dangers, delays in receiving authorities approvals, unanticipated environmental impacts on operations and prices to treatment identical, and different exploration or different dangers detailed herein and now and again within the filings made by the businesses with securities regulators. Readers are cautioned that mineral sources that aren’t mineral reserves would not have demonstrated financial viability. Mineral exploration and improvement of mines is an inherently dangerous enterprise. Accordingly, the precise occasions could differ materially from these projected within the forward-looking statements. For extra info on Stillwater Important Minerals and the dangers and challenges of their companies, buyers ought to evaluate their annual filings which are obtainable at www.sedar.com.

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