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APELLA RESOURCES INC. - SMARTSTOX REPORT
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Smartstox Report on Apella
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Apella Resources Inc.
TSX VENTURE:APA | OTCQX:APAFF | FRANKFURT:NWN
At the Forefront of Vanadium Exploration and Development
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A buzz is building about vanadium-a strategic metal best known as a key additive
for high-strength low-alloy steel.
New construction standards in China, as well
as emerging high tech applications for this metal, could dramatically change
the current supply-demand balance.
One Canadian junior that is banking on this
is Apella Resources Inc.-the companys holdings in Quebec could provide North
Americas first major, viable, domestic supply.
In fact, it might just have the
worlds largest deposit!
VANADIUM, ELEMENT OF THE FUTURE
The backbone of the vanadium sector is its use as an additive that considerably
increases the strength of steel.
Vanadium steel is used in pipelines, bridges,
highways, building frames, automobiles axles, high-speed tool steels and other
critical components.
In the wake of recent earthquakes the Chinese government
is mandating the use of higher quality vanadium steel and rebar in new construction
which will necessarily increase vanadium consumption
The chemistry of vanadium is noteworthy for the accessibility of four adjacent
oxidation states, and this characteristic is key to a number of new technologies
including the Vanadium Redox Battery which is capable of storing energy in multi-megawatt
ranges.
More than 20 medium to large-scale VRB systems have been installed in
Japan, USA, Europe and Australia for the storage of wind and solar energy and
for load leveling at power stations and back-up power.
Its potential to fundamentally
revolutionize energy storage systems led Discover magazine, in 2008, to call
vanadium "The Element That Could Change the World".
Vanadium also replaces cobalt in the latest generation of safer lithium batteries,
and it increases the effectiveness of rare-earth magnets that are used in electric
and hybrid vehicles.
LAC DORE VANADIUM-IRON-TITANIUM PROJECT
Apellas Lac Dore Vanadium-Titanium-Iron Deposit is hosted in the Lac Dore Complex,
a layered igneous intrusive complex lying 70 km southeast of Chibougamau, Quebec.
A resource estimate for the Lac Dore deposit was calculated in 2002 (pre NI
43-101) that outlined measured and indicated resources of 102 million tonnes
at 35% magnetite, 17.4% ilmenite and 0.50% V2O5 (containing 2.27 billion kilograms
of vanadium pentoxide).
The Lac Dore deposit is currently listed as the largest
vanadium deposit in North America and second-largest in the world.
The 2002 resource estimate was part of a positive Feasibility Study prepared
by SNC-Lavalin who was scoping the development of an open pit mine, processing
facilities and
infrastructure required to produce vanadium pentoxide for the conventional steel
alloy market as well as processing facilities to produce vanadium-based chemicals
for specialty uses.
When Apellas management group realized the Lac Dore claims were coming available
in August of 2007, it assembled a team and quickly staked the deposit.
A competing
staker launched a challenge for 21 of the claims, but Quebec courts have awarded
18 of those claims to Apella, giving it commanding control.
Apella also has a 100% interest in 80 claims referred to as Lac Dore North that
cover an apparent extension of the Lac Dore deposit with a strike length of at
least 2.6 km.
2009 drill testing returned values ranging from 0.46% V2O5 to
0.64% V2O5, and up to 13.08% titanium and 54% iron over varied widths.
Apella plans to conduct a drill program at Lac Dore in 2011, focused on bringing
the historic resource into NI 43-101 compliance.
IRON-T VANADIUM-IRONTITANIUM PROJECT
The central part of the Iron-T Vanadium-Titanium-Iron property is located just
10 km southeast of the town of Matagami.
The Bell River Complex that hosts the
Iron-T is similar to the Lac Dore layered igneous complex.
Drill programs in 2009 and 2010 intersected several disseminated to massive
iron oxide layers with several long intersections of disseminated, semi massive,
and massive vanadiferous mineralization, including 93.66 m of 43.87% Fe2O3, 7.90%
TiO2, and 0.41% V2O5, and 90.93 m of 42.70% Fe2O3, 7.24% TiO2 and 0.38% V2O5.
Based on 41 drill holes and a minimum cut-off grade of 0.48% V2O5 equivalent,
SGS-Geostat recently prepared a resource estimate showing 14,376,000 tonnes
in the inferred category at 0.42% V2O5 (or 0.77% V2O5
equivalent).
Note that the estimate could not use data from several drill holes
that returned excellent mineralization as those holes are spaced too far apart,
and it also doesnt include the 19 holes of the Phase 4 program completed in
the spring of 2011.
Only a small portion of the strike length of the mineral enriched Bell River
structure has been drill-tested and Apellas geologists believe the Iron-T deposit
will prove to be substantially larger than Lac Dore, and perhaps the largest in
the world.
ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS
South Africa, north-western China, and eastern Russia account for the vast majority
of global vanadium production.
Analysts note that all of those countries have
significant limitations to increased production, and that new mines in reliable
and safe jurisdictions would be particularly attractive to vanadium consumers.
Apellas deposits are easily accessible and have roads, rail, abundant and cheap
power, water, and ready labour all nearby.
Working in Quebec further increases
an exploration companys efficiency as the province provides exploration credits
of up to 40% of expenses paid back in cash, which can be reinvested in ongoing
programs.
Given the vast size of their deposits, Apella foresees production beginning with
the lower cost extraction of the vanadium-enriched magnetite for the steel industry,
and then expanding to refine the vanadium and titanium for particular markets,
including emerging battery applications.
CORPORATE EXPERTISE
Apella has considerable geological expertise in its fold: consulting geologist
Christian Derosier, M.Sc., D.Sc., is the former president of the Quebec Mineral
Exploration Association.
On Apellas Advisory Board is Dr.
Mehmet Taner, consulting
geologist and mineralogist and one of the worlds foremost vanadium experts
who led exploration work on the Iron-T deposit for Noranda in the 1990s.
This past winter it was announced that Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacos, the inventor
of the Vanadium Redox Battery, had joined Apellas Advisory Board.
DYNAMIC CONCLUSION
With vanadium becoming increasingly important, there are a few deposits around
the world that are being advanced to possible production scenarios.
What distinguishes
Apella Resources projects are their size (very large), the metallurgy/ composition
(attractive mix of iron ore and vanadium), and location (in Quebec, one of the
worlds most mining-friendly jurisdictions).
Vanadium consumption set to increase from its use as a hardening agent in steel,
and emerging applications are providing a whole new market for the uncommon metal.
A junior company like Apella Resources, who may control the most extensive vanadium
assets in the world, wont often show up on an investors computer screen.
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For more information contact:
W.
Adrian Bakker
Vice President of Corporate Communications
Apella Resources Inc.
APA-TSX-V
1600-543 Granville St.
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6C 1X8
Ph.604.683.8990
Direct.604.641.4474
Toll Free:1-800-663-8990
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