US Antimony Reports Zero Lost Time Or Serious Injury Accidents During January-February Period

Author: Benzinga Newsdesk | March 15, 2022 08:06am

United States Antimony Corporation (USAC-the Company) is pleased to provide this operational update. The improvements in production and efficiency continues at all locations. A detailed geophysical program at Los Juarez has been initiated and the head geologist is at Los Juarez.

Operations Updated- January and February

Safety and Environmental

All Company operations reported zero lost time or serious injury accidents during the January-February Period.

There were zero environmental spills, discharges, or incidents during the period. The previously announced (see NR- Jan. 15, 2022) pro-active program of legacy slag clean-up at the Madero Smelter continued and is now 86% complete. Concurrently, the Company is aggressively reducing its stockpile of legacy slags in Montana. In January, 80,000 lbs were shipped and in February 120,000 lbs were shipped. The Company has 178,000 lbs of this legacy slag left to ship.

Production (Unless otherwise specified, tons = metric tons)

Bear River Zeolite ("BRZ")	January		February		Total
Mined Tons:	0	0	0 (mine closed winter months)
Crushed Tons:	628	474	1,102
Sold Tons:	791	1,613	2,404

The total sold tonnage is 46.6% increase over the 1,640 tons shipped in Jan-Feb 2021.

Mexican Smelter:	January		February		Total
Purified antimony metal sold (tons):	20	20	40

Montana Smelter:	January		February		Total
Antimony Trioxide sold (tons):	40.1	55.7	95.8

(NOTE: Tons of antimony trioxide sold were 130% higher and average sale price 91.6% higher in 2022 than for same period in 2021!)

Antimony Trisulfide produced (lbs):

1,986

1,105

3,091

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