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First Cobalt Corp. is pleased to announce President & CEO, Trent Mell will be presenting at the Fastmarkets MB Battery Materials 2019 conference in Shanghai, China this week.  In conjunction with this conference, Mr. Mell will be meeting with a number of potential investors to discuss restart scenarios for the First Cobalt Refinery in Ontario, Canada. Conference participants include some of the world's largest cobalt [...]

First Cobalt Corp. has, at the request of the staff of the Ontario Securities Commission and in connection with a staff review, refiled two documents as follows: The Company has refiled the Cobalt One Business Acquisition Report to include the auditor's report for the financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2017. The Company has also refiled the October 15, 2018 technical report for Iron Creek titled "Technical [...]

First Cobalt today announced it has successfully produced a battery grade cobalt sulfate using the First Cobalt Refinery flowsheet. This significant milestone brings the Company closer to recommissioning the only permitted primary cobalt refinery in North America. With this information, discussions currently underway with automotive companies, cobalt miners and capital providers can now move to a more advanced stage [...]

First Cobalt Corp. is pleased to announce the closing of the non-brokered private placement previously announced on March 4, 2019 to raise gross proceeds of $1,604,385 by issuing 8,913,251 units of the Company at a price of $0.18 per Unit. Each Unit consists of one common share in the capital of the Company and one Common Share purchase warrant . Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one additional Common Share at [...]

First Cobalt Corp. is pleased to report that a 611-metre drill hole has extended mineralization by an additional 150 metres downdip in the central portion of the Iron Creek Cobalt Project in Idaho, USA. Highlights Longest hole drilled to date at Iron Creek at 611m, extends No Name Zone mineralization by an additional 150m Broad intercepts such as 12.0m of 0.20% Co, including 3.9m of 0.35% Co , extend the dip extent of the [...]

 First Cobalt Corp. is pleased to announce the appointment of former Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter to the Company's Board of Directors. Gov. Otter has had a long and prominent political career including both federal and state positions. In January 2019, Gov. Otter retired as Governor of Idaho following a 12-year tenure, making him the longest consecutively-serving governor in the United States. The addition of Gov. Otter to [...]

 First Cobalt Corp. is pleased to report drill results from its Iron Creek Cobalt Project in Idaho, USA, that continue to extend the strike length and width of the mineralized zones to the east of the current resource area as well as downdip a further 100 metres. Highlights Mineralization extended another 75 metres to the east with cobalt grades comparable to the Inferred resource estimate, such as 6.9m of 0.20% Co [...]

First Cobalt Corp. is pleased to report drill results from its Iron Creek Cobalt Project in Idaho, USA, that continue to extend the strike and width of the mineralized zones while also identifying more copper-rich areas to the west of the deposit. Highlights Cobalt-copper mineralization extended by 120 metres westward along strike in the Waite Zone and to a depth of 300 metres Extensions of particularly copper-rich [...]

First Cobalt Corp. is pleased to provide interim results from ongoing testing of cobalt hydroxide material as potential feedstock for the First Cobalt Refinery in Ontario, Canada. The preliminary test results reported today provide further confidence that the First Cobalt Refinery flowsheet is suitable to receive cobalt hydroxide feed material. Highlights 98% of cobalt successfully leached from cobalt hydroxide material [...]

First Cobalt Corp. is pleased to report drill results from its Iron Creek Cobalt Project in Idaho, USA, that extend mineralization at depth and continue to demonstrate thick mineralized areas between the two known zones as well as in the footwall and hangingwall of the current resource area. Highlights Mineralization extended an additional 100m to 250m from surface in the central portion of the current resource area at [...]