Apollo Minerals Limited is focused on exploration programs including drilling and feasibility work at its Couflens Project in southern France and progressing the adjacent Aurenere Project in neighbouring Spain. These tungsten and gold projects, when combined, cover a 97km2 area in a highly prospective region of the Pyrenees, within which lies the high grade historical Salau tungsten mine.
At the Couflens Project, the Company is focused on the potential reactivation of the historical Salau mine which was one of the world’s highest grade tungsten mines and is open at depth, with significant gold potential. The reactivation of the Salau mine has the potential to deliver one of Europe’s most critical raw materials to French and other European industries.
The Company is also planning drilling programs to test gold and tungsten exploration targets in the wider region across both the Couflens Project and Aurenere Project.
Recent work programs have confirmed the presence of widespread high grade gold (up to 33.9 g/t) and tungsten (up to 8.25% WO3) within the Company’s 97km² landholding in this highly prospective region of the Pyrenees.
Apollo Minerals is developing its Projects in accordance with the highest standards of environmental, social, health and safety, and economic management. All work programs are carried out with a strong commitment to both sustainable development and proactive stakeholder engagement as the Company seeks to develop and maintain positive relationships with its host communities and stakeholders.
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Uses of Tungsten
Tungsten is the only element harder than diamond. It is 100 times stronger than steel and has one of the highest melting points of any metal: higher than nickel, iron, titanium and vanadium.
It is used in many heavy industries, including aerospace, manufacturing, automotive and military and in most applications it is not substitutable. As a result, tungsten is a strategic metal that developed economies cannot operate without and many governments consider it vital to national security.
Given its unique and valuable properties, mainly as a strengthening agent, the European Union ranked tungsten as one of Europe’s most critical raw materials, with the highest supply risk of all materials on the list.
It is therefore a growing concern that the supply of tungsten is so heavily dominated by China, who control nearly 80% of global supply and consumption.
Key Applications:
- Cemented carbides used in drilling tools and wear-resistant parts (55%)
- Alloy steels and alloys used primarily in tools (21%)
- Fabricated tungsten products e.g. electrical & electronic contacts (18%)
- Chemical applications and products (6%)
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