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BG Global Metals (LLC) stands as a beacon of innovation and excellence in the global mineral investment landscape. Rooted in the heart of the United States and headquartered in vibrant New York City, our firm is dedicated to the strategic mining, exploration, and marketing of crucial strategic metals. With a commitment to pioneering solutions and driving sustainable growth, we forge ahead, shaping the future of the industry and creating lasting value for our partners and stakeholders worldwide.

Poised on the exploration and marketing of stategic metals such as:

Electrical Contact Materials

Tin 

Copper 

Zinc 

Nickel

Electrical Contact Materials

Vanadium 

Iron ore (Magnetite) 

Lithium 

Chrome 

Tin 

Tantalum 

Tungsten 

SECTORS & INDUSTRIES

MARKETS THAT WE SUPPLY

Automotive & Electrical Vehicles

Renewable & Energy Storage

Advanced Robotics

Advanced Communication Systems

Computation Technology

Aerospace Industries

Defense & Military

Oil & Gas

COMPANY DIVISIONS

BG GLOBAL DIVISIONS

BG Met Alloys

BG Met Alloys is an company formed early 2017 under the laws of South Africa. BG Metals is a 100% black-owned mineral asset holding firm with two base metals exploration projects situated in the Limpopo province, South Africa.

BG Metals is 50% owned by BG Global LLC. which is developing a prospecting project on copper, vanadium, chromium, zirconium, lead, zinc, nickel, tin and base metals mineral bearing land. The target land extent is situated 85 km’s north west of Steelpoort in the Sekhukhune district in the greater Tabutse municipality in the Limpopo region and was drilled, sampled and verified of mineral occurrences in the 1980’s

BG Resources

BG Resources was formed in 2015 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of BG Global LLC and through its subsidiary, BG Resources, has a significant ownership interest of 100 % of the issued share capital in BG Resources, which in turn owns a greenfield iron ore and magnetite project, in Limpopo.

BG Metal Alloys

BG Metal Alloys owns a high value chromite, iron and vanadium bearing exploration project with a focus to develop a large scale operation that will produce several product streams for the Asian and US market.

Along with the project plan, BG Metal Alloys will beneficiate and/or agglomerate these base metals using bespoke patented solutions. This process and technique/process is done from lab scale to large scale at source/mine.

Mining Capabilities

A high grade iron ore magnetite /vanadium deposit that is readily mineable and can be easily accessed with the minimum of infrastructure requirements.

The proposed rate of extraction is not excessive and well within the capabilities of typical earthmoving equipment for this open cast operation.

Method:

• Truck and shovel
• Mining of the Run-of-Mine (ROM) from the pit,
• ROM stockpiled for Crushing and screening
• A conventional three stage crushing required to particle size distribution, followed by ball milling process.

Recovery Method:

Recovery of the final vanadium product from ore material is achieved through the salt roast process, as is typically employed by a number of existing vanadium producers in South Africa.

Vanadium-bearing RoM is received from mining operations in the concentrator circuit.

The RoM proceeds through three stages of crushing before being milled to the required particle size.

A magnetic separation process is used to separate the vanadium-containing magnetic fraction from the non-magnetic waste material, thereby producing a more concentrated, higher metal value material called concentrate.

The waste material slurry is pumped to a tailings facility while the concentrate is filtered, stockpiled and then transferred to the salt roast plant for further processing.

The salt roast plant receives concentrate from the concentrator circuit and produces V2O5 flake (99.5 wt% purity) as the final product via the alkali salt roast process.

The process involves roasting of the concentrate with alkali (sodium) salt, leaching of the resultant material with water, desalination, ammonium metavanadate (AMV) precipitation and deammoniation to produce the final V2O5 product. 

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An Outlook Into

BG Global Advanced Metals

Currently, tin is primarily used for soldering circuit boards and it is predicted that tin will be the material of choice for the next generation of energy-generating and -storage devices whilst being the “glue” that holds all of these components together. This will make tin a vital component in the manufacturing of electric vehicles, advanced robotics, renewable energies, and advanced computing.

The greatest drivers for tin demand will be the Internet of Things and climate change. Demand for tin has historically grown at a steady 2%–3%. The depletion of existing mine reserves and growing regulations have meant that global supply is unlikely to keep up with future demand. The current price of tin has been affected by the ongoing trade war between the USA and China, and between Japan and Korea.

China and Korea are the worlds primary semiconductor manufacturers, hence significant users of tin.The current economic uncertainty has seen users of tin reducing their inventories rather that procure tin with the associated knock on effect on the price of tin. Forecasters expect the tin supply to move into deficit during 2022, increasing after this unless new production is brought to market. There are few new tin projects which are imminent producers. A tin price of ~$21,500/tonne is the required incentive price for these projects to be considered viable.

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An Investigation Into

Tantalum & Tungsten

Insight into advanced metals known as Tantalum & Tungsten, their occurence, production, application and demand curves.

Overview

Tantalum, a rare metal found in minute quantities in the Earth’s crust, is primarily extracted from Tantalite, a mineral akin to Columbite. Gravitational separation is the preferred method for extracting Tantalite due to its density. While Australia historically dominated tantalum production, challenges, including a halt in mining operations in 2012 due to softened demand, have reshaped the industry. Tantalum production remains global, with Brazil, Canada, China, Ethiopia, and Mozambique contributing substantially. Additionally, tantalum is a by-product of tin mining in Thailand and Malaysia. During mining, tantalite is sometimes discovered alongside Cassiterite.

Occurence

Tantalum, a rare metal, occurs in the Earth’s crust at approximately 1 to 2 parts per million (ppm). Its primary mineral for extraction is Tantalite, with the chemical formula (Fe,Mn)Ta2O6, which shares its mineral structure with Columbite, differing in the dominance of tantalum or niobium. Gravitational separation, owing to its high density, is the favored method for extracting Tantalite. Other tantalum-bearing minerals include Microlite, Wodginite, euxenite, Polycrase, smarskite, and Fergusonite. Tantalum occurrence is not limited to Australia, as Brazil, Canada, China, Ethiopia, and Mozambique also contribute significantly to its global production. Moreover, tantalum is a by-product of tin mining in Thailand and Malaysia. During the separation of placer deposits, tantalite is occasionally found alongside Cassiterite (SnO2), further enriching its occurrence.

Production

Tantalum production has historically been concentrated in Australia, with Global Advanced Metals emerging as a prominent mining company in the region. Operating in locations such as Greenbushes and Wodgina, Western Australia, they were pivotal in tantalum extraction. However, the industry faced challenges, notably the cessation of mining operations in 2012 due to softened demand and other contributing factors. Despite this setback, tantalum production remains a global endeavor. Brazil, Canada, China, Ethiopia, and Mozambique are among the significant contributors to global tantalum output. Additionally, tantalum is produced as a by-product of tin mining in Thailand and Malaysia. The primary tantalum concentrate extracted from operations like Wodgina undergoes further refinement before reaching customers, often at facilities such as Greenbushes. Despite fluctuations, tantalum production continues to be a vital aspect of the global metals industry.

An Investigation Into

Tantalum & Tungsten Uses & Applications

Chemical Processing

Tantalum boasts exceptional corrosion resistance to most acids, except hydrofluoric acid, across various concentrations and temperatures. Its corrosion behavior closely resembles that of glass in many acidic environments. As a result, tantalum finds extensive application in chemical processing equipment, particularly in environments characterized by high corrosion and temperature. Common applications include heat exchangers, bayonet heaters, tank and valve liners, feed lances, rupture disks, and various other components.

Semiconductors

The semiconductor industry relies heavily on silicon chip manufacturing technology, with integrated circuits (ICs) featuring nanoscale features. Optimizing electron conduction between these nanoscale features is crucial for IC performance. Tantalum plays a vital role in logic chips and DRAMs by enabling the use of copper as interconnects. Unlike copper, tantalum atoms do not diffuse into silicon at the operating temperatures of these chips. High-purity tantalum and tantalum nitrides are applied atop copper chips to prevent electromigration of copper atoms, ensuring the longevity and reliability of semiconductor devices.

Military and Aerospace

Super alloys, predominantly composed of nickel, find extensive use in gas engines for both commercial and military aircraft, where they endure extreme temperatures and stress. Tantalum is often incorporated into these super alloys to enhance their high-temperature strength. Components made from super alloys containing tantalum can withstand higher internal combustion temperatures, leading to improved thrust efficiencies and reduced fuel consumption in aircraft engines.

Furnace Applications

Refractory furnace trays and boats play a critical role in holding semi-finished goods during high-temperature processes such as sintering. Tantalum emerges as an exceptional material for furnace applications, maintaining excellent dimensional stability at process temperatures while demonstrating remarkable resistance to creep deformation. These properties ensure prolonged service life and reliability in demanding industrial furnace environments.

Nuclear Application

Superconducting wires that are used in nuclear applications are often infused with tantalum diffusion barriers designed to resist internal diffusion and improve the mechanical properties of its superconducting ability. This is useful for large-scale scientific initiatives such as nuclear fusion research.

Electronic Industry

Tantalum has impressive storage capacities with the ability to store more charge per gram than any other comparable metals. consequently, tantalum is well-suited to the production of electrical capacitors and resistors whilst being able to hold large amounts of charge in a small component. This has enabled manufacturers able to make electrical parts and devices much smaller.

An Investigation Into

Tantalum & Tungsten Demand

The demand for Tantulum and Tungsten has proven to be at high growth to support various 4th Industrial Revolution applications. 

While the world slowly returns to some form of post-covid normality, the tantalum industry is changing to an entirely new normality, where reliability, stability and transparency are replacing the traditional volatility, uncertainty and opacity, which is likely to stimulate long-term growth in demand. Over the past decade (2011-2021), key hard and soft rock mining operations for tantalite have been either idled or permanently closed in Australia, Canada, and Mozambique. This has left the majority of demand to be satisfied by mines and artisanal sources in central Africa, Ethiopia and Brazil.

Further supply constraints out of Africa for tantalum materials has created more supply chain delays and logistical challenges. In order to develop metal materials with unique micro structures, Tantalum ores from hard rock feed stocks must be processed and separated using cutting edge nanotechnology methods.

 

The processing of tantalum into anode materials, especially high capacitance value per gram dielectrics, is a technology that is largely focused in Japan, Germany, the U.S. and the republic of Kazakhstan. Tantalum has been the subject of international scrutiny for decades following the United Nations designation of the metal as a “conflict mineral.” This has created added layers of cost associated with regulatory compliance and internal audits, alongside freight and logistics challenges that other dielectrics and electronic components do not have to address. 

 

This has created a unique market environment where the management of tantalum-related business ventures must face the real threat of market encroachment from multiple alternative technologies. Regardless, it is important to note that tantalum remains an important part of the electronics supply chain because of its long term utilization and known reliability in circuits.

 

This is a valuable attribute in a blossoming high-tech economy. Moreover, in the very sweet spot profit centre where moulded tantalum capacitors thrive – where volumetric efficiency, high capacitance, high voltage and high temperature tolerance are required – demand is strong and the outlook to 2026 quite robust.