This is Sparton Resources Inc. By Lee Barker
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parton Resources Inc.
Robert Friedland managed Ivanhoe
On the minerals front, Sparton has
(TSXV.SRI) is a Canadian-
Group of companies. VRB Energy is
concentrated its efforts on locating
based, publicly traded,
the world’s leader in integrating long-
under-explored gold properties
mature junior mineral
life, grid-scale storage batteries with
near producing mines. The Bruell
wind or solar sources of electricity.
project in Quebec is currently under
exploration company that has been active for over 40 years. It is managed by a small team of veteran mining professionals with over 125 years of combined experience. Over the last 18 years, it has generated and developed successful projects for precious and specialty metals in Asia, the United
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These batteries are safer (cannot catch fire), longer lasting (nothing is chemically consumed), and are cost-competitive with lithium units. They are fully recyclable, and they have been built and installed in multi-
option to Eldorado Gold Corp., which operates the Lamaque/Sigma gold mine complex east of Val-d’Or, Quebec, and controls a large property package (including Bruell) east of the Lamaque operations. There are three 1930s-era shafts on the Bruell claims
States, and Canada. Its core asset is
megawatt sizes and are certified
a minority interest (9.8 per cent) in
for extreme cold operations (-40
discovered an exciting new gold zone
a clean tech, vanadium flow battery
degrees Celcius). Sparton expects
at Bruell and Eldorado is currently
producer Sparton Energy Inc. The
to gain substantial benefit from its
part way through a 5,000-metre drill
majority shareholder in VRB Energy
VRB Energy share holdings when VRB
program there. If Eldorado exercises
is Ivanhoe Electric Inc., part of the
Energy becomes a public entity.
its option later this year, Sparton will
and numerous gold showings. Sparton
