Tantalum and niobium - Metals for today's technology

Commerce Resources Corp.., A Canadian company, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, since 2000 a leader in the exploration and development of tantalum and niobium deposits at international level. The company is adequately funded in a good position to advance the development of a promising and profitable and cost-tantalum and niobium mining operation.


Tantalum and niobium - Metals for today's technology

Tantalum and niobium are metals that are indispensable for a wide range of new products and techniques. Besides the very high melting point of tantalum is characterized by its special properties for storing electrical energy. This is used in capacitors, and tantalum have the highest densities (ie capacity) of capacitors. Other properties of tantalum are the exceptional heat resistance and the almost unmatched corrosion resistance and resistance to chemicals. Niobium is mainly used as an alloying element for the production of so-called super steels used. These are characterized by their very high strength and durability and high corrosion resistance and resistance to cracking under high temperatures.


Tantalum is in demand

• in the electronics industry (mobile phones and other telecommunications species, computers, data storage, digital cameras, flat panel displays)
• in the air and space (components for jet engines), vehicle manufacturing (electronics and air bag systems), energy production and chemical industry (pipes, tanks and containers)
• in Medicine (Auto-defibrillators, cochlear implants, stents for angioplasty and other procedures)
• in the industry in general (cutting tools, semiconductor)

The demand for rough tantalum niobium increases steadily, while the stocks in the supply chain is currently low. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Centre (TIC) say for the next 20 years requires a quadrupling of demand. To meet this future demand, the market will require additional significant production from new sources. Unlike other metals, tantalum is not traded as a commodity to the accepted metal markets. The tantalum market is instead on negotiated basis. This fact gives the providers a significant bargaining power, especially during a bull market of the tantalum price.




Niobium is needed:

• for the production of super alloys (Super steel) for steel structures such as, for example, bridges, buildings
• for the production of oil and gas pipelines and components for the aviation engineering
• in vehicle and in the aerospace industry

Due to its firming properties of niobium as an alloying addition is for the industry is a very valuable metal. Standard steel has a tensile strength of 40,000 PSI (pounds per square inch, pounds per square inch). Already an alloying addition of only two percent of niobium alloy increases the tensile strength of 120,000 PSI.


Commerce Resources Corp.. - Planning for the Future

Commerce Resources Corp.. is present in the tantalum and Niobsektor one of the most active companies in the world. The exploration activities are concentrated in eight years to an area near Blue River, British Columbia.



The main points of this project are:

• Defined resources in three major reservoirs (Verity, Fir and Upper Fir). The deposits are 100% owned by Commerce Resources. It must be paid no mining royalties.
• Information received to date, results have shown the potential for an above industry standard interest rates of application. The parent rock is a carbonatite, while most of tantalum deposits in the world (found only very few) in pegmatites. In pegmatite is a harder rock, which complicates the preparation therefore.
• Potential for cost open pit mining.
• The very good, almost fully developed infrastructure - railways, paved roads, water and electricity - will facilitate the production and transport of materials and thereby reduce costs further.
• working capital of 34 million CAD to the development drive to produce offensively.
• Stable political environment.