NioCorp Developments Ltd (NB) Options

Again and again, Mark is here since a long time, his connection never worked out for niocorp, 2025 finish line....
Even spacs work out for other companies.... 
Manys years have passed, studies are done.... 

Regarding that "secret," and according to Google AI:

Mercedes-Benz was the first vehicle manufacturer to use niobium alloying in grey cast iron for brake discs on a large scale, starting in 1997.

This paper is from 2011

https://www.niobelcon.com/NiobelCon/resources/Niobium-alloying-in-grey-cast-iron-for-vehicle-brake-discs-.pdf

YAY! Maybe in 5 years we can sell them some.

"Hello! HI! blah blah blah powerpoint blah, investor presentation at www.niocorp.com, blip bloop blah, 3rd feasibility study we cant afford yet, anal SPAC, blibbity blah, hopefully maybe trump our last chance in the burning hells, BLAH."

"ohhhh you are an unfunded greenfield junior mining company that is 4 years from anything if you got a billion dollars today. I see. Well hey man, have a good day. Take care now, bye bye then...."

Posted today on ToreSays +Chat on Telegram by Teddy Speedboat

I had an opportunity to tour a Midwest foundry last week that makes OEM brake rotors for many of the major auto mfg's. During an explanation of their R&D Testing area, they mentioned a secret test they were conducting... The impact / effects of adding NIOBIUM to the iron! They believe they're going to get a much stronger rotor that will last much longer under real driving conditions. I (of course) told them about the NioCorp mine in Nebraska and put the purchasing manager in touch with their team. To the moon for NioCorp ($NB) ‼️🔱

Another interesting read.

Whispers of another executive order

There could be further moves from Trump coming down the line. Those working in the sector say whispers in the corridors of the White House suggest that he may be about to pass a "Critical Minerals Executive Order", which could funnel further investment into this objective.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30mjedjzgpo.amp
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My apologies if it was already posted.

The Epoch Times Front page article: "Trump Works to Cut US Dependence on Foreign Nations for Critical Minerals"

https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/trump-works-to-cut-us-dependence-on-foreign-nations-for-critical-minerals-5824871

"In anticipation of Trump’s latest executive order, NioCorp, a Colorado-based mining company, announced that it was ready to start construction of its Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project in Nebraska, where it will mine niobium, scandium, titanium, and rare earths essential to U.S. defense.

“America is ready to mine, baby, mine in order to reduce our dangerous dependence on China and the other nations of the BRICS cabal,” Mark Smith, CEO of NioCorp Developments, said in a statement, referring to the intergovernmental association of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, among other countries that joined later."

The attention is growing, that's good
Better deliver some real material news as soon as possible....
2025 agm
Make it happen, many financial sources are out there. 

Yes I do, thanks

USREM and USARE don’t seem the same but hmmmmm both were private. I don’t know how you found that, but that’s pretty good investigating. Are you thinking they are one in the same company?
Perhaps TechMet threw them under the bus too. (Our entity)

I think that video GM referred to was when I found Mark and Jim Promoting USREM on TechMet’s URL.
What are you thinking?

There were quite a few possibilities as to what it could be, including one right there in Nebraska Rare Earth Salts

It was all kept hush hush by JS

Too bad we didn’t have a decent management team at the helm for our SPAC deal. Mark gave up a massive portion of the company to Dean Kehler and Mike Maselli for NOTHING. A deal that provided zero net capital. To make matters worse, we have had to resort to getting money for operating expenses through high risk convertible debt financing. Mark Smith must feel like such a tool for being taken so advantage of.

PutzMueler

Do you remember this post??
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=160255135

Very interesting to me is, there is only 5,000,000 shares outstanding after the SPAC deal.

Your link states $91.3m market cap at Fridays close of $18.55

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After some DD, it is my opinion UCore’s RapidSX process separates heavy Rare earths and USARE’s Round Top mine has Heavy Rare Earths to separate.
🤔

But then there is NioCorp and our separation process sounds very similar to what USARE says about theirs. (In your link)

I haven’t looked up UCore’s process to see if it is similar as well.

🤷

Yeppers, they don’t have a feasibility study or process of extracting the minerals yet, but they’re smoking Niocorp. Question, who the hell has Mark Smith and Niocorp management pissed off?!?!

https://www.mining.com/usa-rare-earth-merges-with-inflection-point-debuts-on-nasdaq/

Ffs enough with the AI text barf bullshit.

Mark A. Smith served as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Molycorp, Inc., a rare earth mining company, from October 2008 until his resignation on December 11, 2012. His departure came amid challenges for the company, including an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into the accuracy of its public disclosures, which was disclosed in November 2012. During his tenure, Smith oversaw significant developments, such as the acquisition of Neo Material Technologies for approximately C$1.2 billion in 2012 and efforts to ramp up production capacity at Molycorp’s Mountain Pass mine in California. However, declining rare earth prices and operational challenges began to strain the company’s finances.
Molycorp filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on June 25, 2015, approximately two and a half years after Smith’s exit. The bankruptcy filing was driven by the company’s inability to manage its $1.7 billion debt load, exacerbated by a collapse in rare earth prices following China’s relaxation of export restrictions and Molycorp’s failure to generate consistent profits since 2011. The company had missed a $32.5 million interest payment earlier in June 2015, signaling its financial distress.
Smith’s resignation in December 2012 was framed by Molycorp as a natural transition point, with the company shifting from a development-stage entity to an operational one, requiring a different management style. Ross Bhappu, chairman of Molycorp’s board, noted this shift, and Constantine Karayannopoulos, former CEO of Neo Material Technologies, stepped in as interim president and CEO. While Smith’s departure was not explicitly linked to the SEC probe or the company’s looming financial troubles, it occurred during a period of significant uncertainty for Molycorp.
In summary, Mark A. Smith left Molycorp on December 11, 2012, roughly two and a half years—not precisely two years—before the company’s bankruptcy filing on June 25, 2015. His exit preceded the company’s most acute financial difficulties, which culminated in the Chapter 11 filing as Molycorp struggled with debt and market conditions.

Agreed, Mark doesn’t seem to be getting much love from anyone. He had a ton of support from Nebraskans in the beginning, but hearing what Ms. Beethe had to say and the fact they haven’t held a town hall there in many years, the local support is gone. They went from having a great presence in the area several years ago, occupying an office in nearby Tecumseh, attending town halls, getting locals to invest in the project, to completely ghosting the local investor community! They have a lot of damage control to do before they ever parade their presence there again.

We (shareholders) may all be paying a very high price for Mr. Smith walking away from the Molycorp bankruptcy 10+ yrs. ago- without explaining the move to their shareholders...... and shareholders almost filed a lawsuit, things must have been very heated and contentious at that time (just reading accounts of the incident back then....) Fast forward to today.........It sure doesn't seem like he gets any love from the mining community, or the financial community for that matter.......... I hope we are not all paying for that ....If we are not able to close gubmint loans with this much tailwind at our backs, then i believe we will hear VERY LOUD CRIES from the shareholder base- demanding that we sell this mine to a group who can execute on financing during these very favorable times..... the 3 month clock is ticking..... Enough is enough.....

NCT- 'waiting with many'... Yaddda...... and 'Blah blah blah....... and 'The Beat Goes On.... and on and on and on....but nothing much changes in Nio-Ville.... chugga chugga chugga chugga....
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PS- i didnt look too hard (got lazy and grabbed a cold IPA :) ) but cursory search today didn't turn up tech fundamentals on US Rare Earths.... i'e', number shares outstanding? how close are they to production? yadddy

They ended up closing at $18.55 today and they don’t even have their processing figured out and no feasibility study!!!! What does that say about what the investment community thinks of Mark Smith?!?! Absolutely pathetic! Mark, you must have made a lot of enemies through the years.

Thanks for the info. Right at the beginning I hear that word “sintered” manufacturer, Mark Smith agreed to help find a sintered Magnet Mfgr for Stellantis.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6370046980112

Believe it or not when I first bought into the company and Mark Smith was in an advisory role before joining.

He took a trip to Texas when he became The Boss, and he made a big deal of making sure investors knew it.

I wonder if he found his Sintered Mfgr

Hope so Walter... what is your best guess on where our beloved NB share price goes when financing is announced?

I did notice that the today's Reverse SPAC merger seemed to work out nicely for USA Rare Earth', in their case they didn't get SPAC'led by the shareholders pulling out, they actually received the proceeeds from the SPAC ($50M+) during the process..... Maybe Mark should talk to US Rare Earth's CEO, Josh Ballard to see what he did differently to make the SPAC work... instead of of our SPACLE Debacle.... where we all bent over and watched GX Milken/Keaton Drexell Burnham disciple sharks get rich .... and not help out AT ALL with the financing for FS etc..... weasels......
NCT

we will

USA Rare Earth company featured on 'Claman Countdown'...rang the bell on Nasdaq.....woaaaa!!! ( They went public with a SPAC reverse merger with Inflection Point) all kinds of good press... stock was up 17% on their appearance today..... CEO Joshua Ballard was GUSHING!!! and why not......gosh... it's really nice to see the other junior miners out there with their day in the sun..... wonder if the faithful shareholders of Niocorp that have endured the pain and suffering of watching this NB show.... will have their day in the sun at some point.... sometime during this century would be preferable please!!

NCT

No, but his 3pm ET press conference at DOJ has been delayed up to an hour. He's obviously going to talk about fentanyl but unclear if anything else.

Heard anything yet on this?

Trump is also scheduled to sign executive orders at 12 p.m. ET, but it’s unclear which orders he’s signing. The event is closed to the press.
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https://www.livenowfox.com/news/trump-visits-justice-department-signs-orders-live-updates.amp
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https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/calendar/

MP up 7 %
Not even positive earnings 
Market Capitalisation going to 5 Billions 

😕😕😕😕

https://www.barchart.com/story/news/31396711/trump-wants-to-build-metal-refining-facilities-on-military-bases-this-1-stock-is-poised-to-win-big


No even positive earnings....... 

E.O. 14154 The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is issuing this interim final rule to remove the existing implementing regulations for the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. 4321

et seq.,

as amended (NEPA), in response to Executive Order (E.O.) 14154,

Unleashing American Energy.

Among other things, E.O. 14154 rescinds E.O. 11991,

Relating to Protection and Enhancement of Environmental Quality,

which amended E.O. 11514,

Protection and Enhancement of Environmental Quality,

and directed CEQ to promulgate regulations for implementing NEPA and required Federal agencies to comply with those regulations. E.O. 14154 also directs CEQ to issue guidance on implementing NEPA and to propose rescinding the NEPA implementing regulations. This interim final rule carries out President Trump's latter instruction.

See

Section II.A. As explained in Section II.B of this rule, CEQ has also concluded that it may lack authority to issue binding rules on agencies in the absence of the now-rescinded E.O. 11191. CEQ cited E.O. 11991 as authority in 1978 when it first issued its NEPA regulations. However, that Executive Order has now been rescinded, and CEQ therefore has determined that it is appropriate to remove its regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations.


https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations

Until we see multiple million loan the market stays away is everyones impression...

Might turn into the opposite one day.... 

Hope sooner than later 

Thank you President Trump!! Go NioCorp!!

Not sure how far back you inquired or your specific criteria regarding CM, but there is one. From January/25

https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-ca/knowledge/publications/7946414d/us-policy-changes-to-critical-mineral-strategy

Declaring a National Energy Emergency (EO 14159), which include new mining-related policies intended to bolster the United States’ production and processing of critical minerals.

As of today, March 14, 2025, there’s no officially signed EO on critical minerals from Trump’s current term that I can confirm with a specific title or number, but there’s strong indication of one in the works. Trump announced during his address to Congress on March 4, 2025, that he would "take historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the USA." Reports from Reuters and posts on X suggest this EO could have been signed as early as Wednesday, March 12, 2025, or might still be pending finalization.
The anticipated EO is expected to focus on boosting domestic production of critical minerals—like copper, lithium, cobalt, and rare earths—to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign adversaries, especially China, which controls much of the global supply chain. Key elements rumored to be included are:
Building refining facilities on Pentagon bases: This would leverage military land to process minerals, emphasizing national security and bypassing some regulatory hurdles faced by private projects.

Permitting reform: Streamlining bureaucratic processes to speed up mining and production, a priority echoed in Trump’s past EOs like 13817 (2017) and 13953 (2020).

Appointing a “Critical Minerals Czar”: A coordinator to oversee this push, similar to roles created in past administrations for other priorities.

No stockpile plan: Unlike some expectations, it reportedly won’t mimic the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for minerals.

This builds on Trump’s earlier actions—EO 13817 (2017) identified 35 critical minerals and set a strategy to secure them, while EO 13953 (2020) declared a national emergency over supply chain vulnerabilities. Recent moves in 2025, like EO 14156 ("Declaring a National Energy Emergency") and EO 14154 ("Unleashing American Energy") signed on January 20, 2025, also tie into this narrative by addressing energy and mineral shortages as security threats.
However, without an official document or White House confirmation as of my last update, the EO’s status remains “pending” or potentially just signed but not yet publicized in detail. The exact scope might still be under discussion, as plans can shift before signing, per sources like Reuters.

Haven't heard anything. However, it was a closed meeting. Thus, I am not surprised .

Exim??

Anyone a word from Jim? 

So you're confirming the accuracy of the reporting. 😂
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for NB's full-year earnings has moved 15% higher within the past quarter.
15% higher than 0 is 0
https://www.zacks.com/ZER/about.php
Zacks Equity Research combines Zacks quantitative models with the insight provided by experienced equity analysts to create superior long-term stock recommendations.

Good point CDH. Zacks doesn't tend to put AI stuff out but there but this does look like it has to be AI. There is a ton of it out there in terms of alleged stock analysis and reports. I completely ignore anything coming from Simply Wall St. But at least it states AI Generated by Simply Wall St. Most can start to tell when it is AI generated.

LMAO earnings? Is this more AI generated content? 15% higher than 0 is 0. 🤔

17.7% returns huh. wow. 17.7% of 0 is 0. Does anyone read this stuff before it is published? 😅

Its cool that this stuff can be found but still cringe.

Is NioCorp Developments Ltd. (NB) Stock Outpacing Its Basic Materials Peers This Year?
Zacks Equity Research Thu, March 13, 2025

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/niocorp-developments-ltd-nb-stock-134010471.html
The Zacks Rank is a proven model that highlights a variety of stocks with the right characteristics to outperform the market over the next one to three months. The system emphasizes earnings estimate revisions and favors companies with improving earnings outlooks. NioCorp Developments Ltd. is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy).

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for NB's full-year earnings has moved 15% higher within the past quarter. This means that analyst sentiment is stronger and the stock's earnings outlook is improving.

Based on the most recent data, NB has returned 17.7% so far this year. At the same time, Basic Materials stocks have gained an average of 4.3%. This means that NioCorp Developments Ltd. is performing better than its sector in terms of year-to-date returns.

News 

Nooooo

Guru...... Still alive... But no really a expert 

I feel great Putz. How about you? P.S. I do not agree with all of the ratcheting up of tariffs and picking fights with our longtime allies and friends.

The only thing wrong with that is nobody would give a flying shit and most likely read the first sentence before placing it in the circular file.

What’s wrong with a good old fashion letter telling them how you feel?



How do you feel BTW?

Exim meeting today, connecting to niocorp..... That is the question..... 

I am not looking to send any message through the shareholder vote. Just responded to CDH's post. If I want to get a message to management, I will do it via e-mail, text, phone, LinkedIn, etc.

I unfortunately hope we can count on the Donald. We don't seem to have any other paths as the last decade has shown. If not for the Donald's wild administration we would still be sitting here without even this recent speculation. It appears this was NOT de-risked and there was NOT tremendous interest.

What message are you looking to send?

You really think Mark can count on Donald? 

Nothing CDH. Still waiting on Trump to announce his "historic actions to massively expand critical minerals and rare earths production in America," as promised in his speech to Congress. I suspect this is being delayed in light of the repairing of the relationship with Ukraine, and with that agreement back on track, so he can piggyback them in one big announcement or ceremony. Just my suspicion

It is not pointless. I can send a strong message.

Yes thanks for that jab driving home that nothing anyone thinks or does matters. We already know voting is pointless. 🤣