Globe Metals & Mining is an African-focused uranium and specialty metals resource company. Its main focus is the multi-commodity (niobium, uranium, tantalum and zircon) Kanyika Niobium Project in central Malawi, which contains a 55.3Mt Inferred and Indicated JORC resource @ 3,000ppm Nb2O5, including a higher grade 24.0Mt component @ 3,800ppm Nb2O5. The Indicated JORC resource component is 13.2Mt @ 3,600ppm Nb2O5, including a higher grade 8.5Mt component @ 4,200ppm Nb2O5. A Pre-Feasibility Study was commissioned in September 2008 and production is planned to commence in 2012 at a rate of 3,000tpa niobium metal, principally in the form of ferro-niobium.
Globe has a number of uranium and other projects in Malawi, which it manages from its regional exploration office in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi. The Company has been listed on the ASX since December 2005 (Code: GBE), and has its corporate head office in Perth, Australia.
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