The Itronics Story
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Itronics is an emerging cleantech materials growth company that uses proprietary multi-nutrient fertilizer manufacturing technologies to produce its award-winning line of GOLD’n GRO Multi-Nutrient Liquid Fertilizers and its revolutionary Rock Kleen Technology, developed to process mine-tailings. This industry disruptive tailings technology extracts residual precious metals, base metals, and nutrient materials from spent mine-tailings, while cleaning the rock of any residual cyanide, nitrates, or acids, rendering them inert and environmentally safe for use as aggregate materials and clays. This results in 100% beneficial use of the tailings, and a newly available green-mining solution. In short, Rock Kleen profitably solves a 150-year-old mining problem, making this technology a true paradigm shift in the mining world. In addition, there is an emerging world wide shortage of suitable sand products for use in construction. This technology could provide a partial solution for that problem, given that mining is a world-wide activity, and the use of sand for construction is also a world-wide activity.
Itronics historically achieved these breakthrough, zero-waste energy saving technologies by recovering fertilizer raw materials, silver bullion, and silver-bearing glass from historically abundant photochemical waste-streams, waste-streams that contain silver, and traces of gold. Over the past decade, due to the exponential rise in digital photography, and the resulting decrease in the available photochemical waste stream, Itronics has been transitioning to a synthetic-based liquid replacement for photo liquids. Itronics has achieved this through intensive R&D and novel chemistry, envisioned and created by its R&D team led by Itronics founder, Dr. John W. Whitney. The switch from recycled liquids to synthetics is more chemically effective due to the lack of impurities. The Company’s objective to fully transition to synthetics to achieve sustainable and profitable clean technology growth will be largely complete in 2024. Itronics has also developed an energy saving E-Scrap Refining Technology which recovers 100% of the metals in printed circuit boards, which include copper, tin, silver, gold, palladium, nickel, lead, cobalt, and antimony. The metals are produced in silver-rich bullion bars that are sent to a refiner for separation. The fiberglass substrate, which contains a minor amount of copper and silver, is converted to high quality glass slag for use in copper smelting. The planned growth in printed circuit board refining is to expand 110 times the current capacity, which will position Itronic’s as the largest printed circuit board refiner in the western U.S. There is currently a critical domestic refining capacity shortage, presenting Itronics with a major growth opportunity in a key, underserved market. Itronics also controls a 2,800-acre Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) mineral exploration property named the Fulstone Project in the prolific Yerington Copper Mining District in western Nevada. Itronics has identified two poly-metallic gold and silver prospects, the Golden Valley prospect, and the Silver Ridge prospect on the property. These prospects contain gold, silver, zinc, lead, copper, and iron, with trace amounts of molybdenum, all metals in demand for the "EV" transition. In addition, it hosts a 500,000 ton iron mine tailings resource that contains trace amounts of the full suite of "rare earth" elements. The Company is evaluating mineral production, processing, and manufacturing opportunities for the Fulstone Project and for application of Itronic's technologies to develop this project. At its core, Itronics is a company that utilizes science and engineering to create and commercialize recycling, mineral, and nutrient technologies. Itronic’s research facilities are in Reno, Nevada and it operates as a holding company, with two wholly owned subsidiaries, Itronics Metallurgical, Inc. and Whitney & Whitney, Inc. Itronic’s Iron Oxide Copper Gold Fulstone Project, is owned by Auric Gold and Minerals, Inc., a seventy percent owned subsidiary. The project is located northwest of Yerington, Nevada in the Yerington Mining District. Itronic’s founder and President, Dr. John Whitney, earned a Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, with a Doctorate in Mineral Economics, and has served as a consultant to the U.S. government to Congress, including the Office of Technology Assessment, and to several of the U.S. states where the mining industry is important. He also served as an advisor to the Country of Bolivia on mineral development issues from 1986 to 1995. |
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