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CORPORATE
INFORMATION
United States Antimony
Corporation (USAC)
is a junior mining and chemical company with three
product
lines that each present tremendous potential:
ANTIMONY,
ZEOLITE AND PRECIOUS METALS
(SILVER AND GOLD).
The
main antimony operation is located in Thompson Falls, Montana
where USAC mined the metal underground for 15 years
beginning in 1969. The plant is capable of producing all
major antimony products at rates exceeding
1,000,000 pounds
per month. A new mining, milling and smelting operation is under construction in
Mexico. This operation will also produce significant silver
and gold as byproducts.
The zeolite operation is a wholly owned
subsidiary,
BEAR RIVER ZEOLITE
with its mine and processing plant near Preston, Idaho.
For corporate information,
including news releases, stock prices, financial information
and SEC filings, go to
UAMY.OB.
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ANTIMONY
ANTIMONY
is a metal that is used primarily in plastics as
a flame
retardant. It is also used in bearings, ordinance,
porcelain, glass, batteries, textile goods, elastomers,
and
numerous other applications. The domestic market for
antimony oxide is approximately 70,000,000 pounds per
year (valued at more than $200,000,000), and is growing
at an annual rate of 6.8% per year. Antimony
metal,
sodium antimonate, and various other products
account
for another 20,000,000 pounds per year.
The Chinese supply 89% of
the world production of
antimony ore. China's production is
declining, and the
country is consuming more of their
own production. As a
result, metal prices have risen to
a 20-year high of almost
$3.00 per pound
USAC is the only
significant domestic producer of antimony
products.
Until recently, there were five other domestic
producers
of antimony products, and all of them were
dependent on
Chinese sourced material. USAC is not
dependent on
Chinese feed, but it is currently limited to
obtaining
raw materials sufficient to produce approximately
160,000 pounds of antimony oxide per month.
USAC has started a
Mexican subsidiary called
Antimonio de Mexico, S. A. de
C. V. (ADM) to explore and
develop antimony in
Mexico. It has been given approval to
start production
by the Mexican authorities. Every effort is
being made
to have the plant operational by fourth quarter
2006. Initially, feed will be purchased from various mines
in
Mexico and Central America. Both antimony metal and
oxide will be produced. By the end of this year,
concentrates are expected from the ADM mine in the
State of Queretaro, Mexico. Silver will be a major
byproduct and gold will be a minor byproduct. |
Antimony Oxide production
Thompson Falls, Montana
Antimony Ore
Queretaro, Mexico |
Bear River Zeolite
Quarry
BRZ™ Processing Plant |
ZEOLITE
ZEOLITE
is a
unique volcanic rock that has a natural cation exchange
feature (it holds calcium, ammonium, potassium, sodium,
magnesium,
etc. loosely in its crystal lattice). While
uses for zeolite are
tremendous, the United States
purchases only 50,000 metric tons
per year. The rest of
the world purchases more than 4,000,000 metric tons per
year. The United States is just beginning to discover
the widespread potential of natural zeolite.
Some of the current
applications for natural non-toxic zeolite include water
and air filtration, environmental cleanup of chemical
spills,
disposal of heavy metals, wastewater treatment,
soil amendments, aquaculture, animal nutrition, myco-toxin binding, odor control, desiccants, traction, building
materials and concrete additives.
Zeolite products are
marketed through the wholly owned USAC subsidiary
BEAR RIVER ZEOLITE
(BRZ). The products are mined and processed
in southeast Idaho. Development of the mine and
construction of the processing plant began in 2001, and
sales commenced in 2002. Deposit reserves are estimated
to exceed 200,000,000 tons.
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