STRATEGIC RESOURCES

McIntyre & Bauman Group founded Searchlight Strategic Resources in 2007 to explore for new United States domestic supplies of strategic minerals, including Molybdenum, Uranium and Columbium and Rare Earths.

Molybdenum (also called “Moly”) is principally used in making steel. Recent years have seen record prices for Moly.

Uranium is also in high demand and prices have increased dramatically. McIntyre & Bauman Group’s Grand Gulch Mine is located in the Arizona Strip, the principal uranium producing province of Arizona. A historic copper mine, Grand Gulch is known to host vanadium, and is highly prospective for uranium at depth.

• Grand Gulch

Columbium and Rare Earths have been called the “vitamins” of high-tech industry, and have the following cutting – edge applications:

Columbium (also called niobium) and sister element Tantalum – superconducting magnets for NMR machines and body scanners.

Cerium – catalytic converters, phosphors for color cathode ray tubes and x-ray intensifying screens

Gadolinium – magnets for computer equipment, color phosphors

Lanthanum – catalytic converters

Neodymium – permanent magnets for automotive engines

Praseodymium – magnets for telecommunications equipment

Yttrium – catalytic converters, tri-phosphor fluorescent lamps

Other applications for rare earth elements are lasers, superconductors, magnetorestrictive alloys and magnetic refrigeration.

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