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“With few exceptions, our closing share price activity resembles Freeport McMoRan’s [FCX: NYSE]. Last week (Oct. 10 – 15) saw a solid week of bad news on the copper price front due to Chinese economic woes. When there has been good news on that front, both share prices have seen increases. As has been widely reported, the long term situation for copper supplies and price is very favorable for us.”

James A. Briscoe| Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. 10.18.2016

James A. Briscoe, P. Geo | October 10, 2016

Chris Calem has checked in with an informative article, ”Rare Earth Recovery,” on the Thermo Fisher Scientific blog, Advances in Mining. While rare earth elements (REEs) are relatively common, they rarely occur in pure form and can be concentrated in a number of different metals, which are processed in different ways. As has been widely reported, China remains the world’s top producer and maintains a monopoly over the REEs market. With such a diverse and growing need for REEs in fast growing tech and medical industries, one wonders how long China can hold its dominant position. “Forecasts are optimistic that demand for REEs will rebound as the demand for products manufactured with rare earth elements grows, notes Calem. Further, “Increasing demand may also drive mining efforts outside of China. An article onRare Earth Investing Newspoints out that while still the dominant player, China isn’t the only game in town. Australia holds the world’s third-largest known rare earth reserves, Russia is investing heavily in new rare earth production and extraction techniques, and Thailand and Malaysia maintain rare earth mining operations. Even the United States managed to produce 4,100 tons of REEs in 2015, according to the article.”

When we conducted geochemical sampling throughout the Hay Mountain area of interest in 2011, the geosciences team assembled for the project, including myself, was surprised at the broad presence of four of seventeen REEs. (NR 122 May 15, 2012) We plan to do additional testing on those samples, rock chip, vegetation and soil, for the other rare earth elements. Unfortunately, that project remains intriguing from a discovery point of view only, and not the main driver toward drilling for a copper/gold/moly dominant ore body.

I have kept abreast and made comment on the importance of rare earth elements for the US economy (“About Rare Earth Elements” Aug. 7, 2013) and while I understand that exploration for them is not a top priority at Hay Mountain right now, there may come a time when American based miners get into REE production. We will keep an eye out for REE readings as we continue with our x-ray fluorescence (XRF) work in the field. When economic conditions change enough for a real interest in REEs, Liberty Star will be well positioned to enter into a new phase concentrating on this essential basket of strategic metals.

Hay Mountain Project Update

We are working with the Arizona State Land Department renewing our Plan of Operation and expect no delays. We submitted a few new elements to the program, in support of a selective near surface mining project. Our recent Niton XRF work continues to verify that the shallow outcrops containing green and black copper oxide lay throughout the target area. If a surface body of oxide copper (on top of the sulfide copper indicated by ZTEM) proves to be a minable ore body itself, we can selectively mine using a Vermeer Terrain Leveler (VTL), resulting in lower cost mining and ore grade selection than standard methods of open pit mining. The VTL can readily cut the rocks we are confronting. (NR 195, Feb. 24, 2015) Fragmentation achieved by the Vermeer concentrates on the ore bearing interstices of the host rock, maximizing the proportion of exposed surface area of the fragmented material that is ore bearing. This feature yields materials that may be much more available for solvent dissolution than conventionally crushed ore, substantially cutting processing costs. The VTL cuts are adjustable to get the optimum fragment size for heap leaching: all of this without using drilling or blasting. The path to extracting and selling ore becomes much shorter if we can implement a selective shallow mining project. It would be one among several projected mining projects throughout the Hay Mountain complex.

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Advances in Geochemistry Restore Gold Exploration Efforts Globally and Closer to Home

By James A. Briscoe| September 21, 2016

A recent article published by Thermo Fisher Scientific in their very informativeAdvancing Mining blog reminded me of what we are already doing with their most advanced x-ray fluorescence (XRF) right now at our Hay Mountain targets or have already done with other geochemical tools. In “Ancient Egypt May Point the Way to Modern Gold Discoveries” Esa Nummi points out that a lot of gold discoveries only previously hinted at may be uncovered through modern mineral exploration techniques. In Egypt, the government is trying to revive a mining industry long abandoned. New explorers hope to use modern mining techniques and technology to recover gold missed or left behind. Egypt has other challenges as well, but with an urgent need to find new deposits, explorers are venturing all over the world.

Modern mining techniques and technology will further our goals at Hay Mountain, where gaps in geologic mapping, difficult terrain, and disinterest while gold prices were low made the historic Tombstone mining district a less than ideal candidate for gold exploration. What we have done throughout the Tombstone Super Project and Hay Mountain particularly, and continue to do now, will make the area more attractive for serious exploration and development. To our north, Excelsior Mining’s Gunnison Copper Project continues development as a shallow copper in-situ extraction project.

However, that in-situ project just scratches the surface. From my interpretation of the data we have compiled the Hay Mountain Project could be a multi-target high grade and large sediment hosted and porphyry hosted copper, gold, moly, zinc, lead, silver, with potential by products of uranium, thorium, manganese, rare earth elements (REE’s) ore body and perhaps other metal and non-metal byproducts. Using Thermo Fisher XRF equipment has provided important refinements to both the geophysical and geochemical data we have compiled over the years.

Those previously collected enabled us to produce our maps of the area, which were severely lacking, and are necessary. The XRF work we are doing now can measure precisely pathfinder metals that may give us the ability to determine where the best prospects for gold and other metals are.

While we await funding to begin the drilling portion of Phase 1 at Hay Mountain, our field manager, Jay Crawford, has been using our Thermo Fisher Niton XRF equipment over a couple of our most promising targets.

We have now accumulated approximately 5 thousand XRF determinations for 51 elements (255 thousand individual elemental determinations). These will be compiled and interpreted using the same techniques that we have applied to rock chip, soil, and vegetation samples data reduction and interpretation in relation to previous geoscientific data.

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