魁北克省薩格奈–2024年1月23日 – First Phosphate Corp. (CSE: PHOS) (OTC: FRSPF) (FSE: KD0) (“First Phosphate”或“本公司”)欣然宣布，魁北克省自然資源和森林部長Maïté Blanchette Vézina女士今天公布了實施《2020-2025年魁北克省關鍵和戰略礦產開發五年計劃》中的2023-2025年行動計劃。
Maïté Blanchette Vézina女士宣布，借助發布2023-2025年行動計劃的機會，宣布更新魁北克省關鍵和戰略礦物（“CSM”）清單，將磷灰石（磷酸鹽）納入其中。至此，魁北克省與加拿大安大略省、歐盟和韓國一樣，均已承認磷酸鹽是一種重要的戰略礦產。
加拿大和美國政府預計將在2024年或之後就磷酸鹽作為重要戰略礦產的地位做出決定。根據Argus磷礦石分析報告（2023 年第二季度），到2037年，北美磷酸鹽產量將下降61%。
現階段，北美磷酸鹽生產主要集中在食品和化肥領域，尚未經曆磷酸鐵鋰（“LFP”）電池生產預計將產生的巨大需求。First Phosphate一直積極參與魁北克省火成磷酸鹽資源的開發，並對魁北克承認當地磷酸鹽資源為滿足北美電氣化需求所帶來的巨大機遇表示贊賞。
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Forward-looking information in this press release are based on certain assumptions and expected future events, namely: the Company’s ability to integrate directly into the functions of certain major North American LFP Battery producers; the Company’s ability to develop its land claims in the region of Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec; the Company ability to carry out its plans for the development of a LFP CAM manufacturing business in North America; and the Company possessing the ability to realize upon the potential agreements with governmental and other entities, potential the development of partnerships, relationships and customers, and the stated benefits thereof.
These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements, including but not limited to: the Company’s inability to integrate directly into the functions of certain major North American LFP Battery producers; the Company’s inability to develop its land claims in the region of Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Quebec; the Company inability to carry out its plans for the development of a LFP CAM manufacturing business in North America; and the Company’s inability to realize upon the potential agreements with governmental and other entities, potential the development of partnerships, relationships, and customers, and the stated benefits thereof.
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