Silver Elephant: Notice of Intent to Prepare EIS Published for Gibellini Vanadium Project
Silver Elephant: Notice of Intent to Prepare EIS Published for
Gibellini Vanadium Project
Vancouver, British Columbia, July 16, 2020 – Silver Elephant Mining Corp. (“Silver Elephant” or
the “Company”) (TSX: ELEF, OTCQX:SILEF, Frankfurt:1P2N) is pleased to announce that the Notice
of Intent (“NOI”) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) for the Gibellini Vanadium
Project (“Project”) located in Eureka County, Nevada, USA was published on July 1 4, 2020 i n the
Federal Register. The Gibellini Project is 100% owned by Nevada Vanadium LLC. (“Nevada
Vanadium”), a Nevada corporation that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Silver Elephant Mining Corp.
The NOI formally commences the 12-month timeline to complete the National Environmental Policy Act
(“NEPA”) review and EIS preparation by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land
Management (“BLM”). The NEPA process is designed to help public officials complete permitting
decisions that are protective of the environment and includes a public engagement process.
Per news release from The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Mount Lewis Office:
“If approved, this project would provide hundreds of jobs and will contribute to the nation’s domestic
source of critical minerals,” said Doug Furtado, Battle Mountain District Manager. “The Gibellini mine
would also be the first vanadium mine in the U.S. and, in accordance with Secretarial Order 3355, we
anticipate having a record of decision in 12 months.
As there is currently no primary domestic production of vanadium, the United States is dependent on
foreign sources of vanadium; this creates a strategic vulnerability for both the economy and military to
adverse government action or other events that can disrupt the supply of this key mineral.”
Please visit www.nevadavanadium.com for the full news release from Nevada Vanadium LLC.
SILVER ELEPHANT MINING CORP.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“John Lee”
Chairman
For more information about Silver Elephant, please contact Investor Relations:
+1.604.569.3661 ext. 101
www.silverelephant.com
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policies of the Toronto Stock Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
release.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some statements in this news release are about future events and performance. Such statements are based on current
estimates, predictions, expectations, or beliefs. The subjects of the statements include, but are not limited to, (i) the PEA
representing a viable development option for the project; (ii) construction of a mine at the project and related actions; (iii)
estimates of the capital costs of constructing mine facilities, bringing the mine into production, and sustaining the mine, together
with estimates of the length of financing payback periods; (iv) the estimated amount of future production, of both [raw material?]
and metal recovered; and (vi) estimates of the life of the mine and of the operating and total costs, cash flow, net present value,
and economic returns, including internal rate of return from an operating mine constructed at the project. All forward- looking
statements are based on Silver Elephant’s or its consultants’ current beliefs and assumptions, which are in turn based on the
information currently available to them. The most significant assumptions are set forth above, but generally these assumptions
include: (i) the presence and continuity of vanadium mineralization at the project at the estimated grades; (ii) the geotechnical
and m etallurgical characteristics of the rock conforming to the sampled results; (iii) infrastructure construction costs and
schedule; (iv) the availability of personnel, machinery, and equipment at the estimated prices and within the estimated delivery
times; (v) currency exchange rates; (vi) vanadium sale prices; (vii) appropriate discount rates applied to the cash flows in the
economic analysis; (viii) tax rates applicable to the proposed mining operation; (ix) the availability of acceptable financing on
reasonable terms; (x) projected recovery rates and use of a process method, which although well-known and proven with other
commodity types, such as copper, has not been previously brought into production for a vanadium project; (xi) reasonable
contingency requirements; (xii) success in realizing proposed operations; and (xiii) assumptions that the project’s environmental
approval and permitting is forthcoming from county, state, and federal authorities. The economic analysis is partly based on
Inferred Mineral Resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to
them that would enable them to be categorized as Mineral Reserves, and there is no certainty that the PEA based on these
Mineral Resources will be realized. Currently there are no Mineral Reserves on the Gibellini property. Although the Company’s
management and its consultants consider these assumptions to be reasonable, given the information currently available to
them, they could prove to be incorrect. Many forward-looking statements are made assuming the correctness of other forward-
looking statements, such as statements of net present value and internal rates of return. Those statements are based in turn
on most of the other forward-looking statements and assumptions made herein. The cost information is also prepared using
current values, but the time for incurring the costs is in the future and it is assumed costs will remain stable over the rel evant
period.
These factors should be considered carefully, and readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements by
Silver Elephant or its consultants. Silver Elephant and its consultants believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-
looking statements contained in this news release and the documents incorporated by reference herein are reasonable, but no
assurance can be given that these expectations will prove correct. In addition, although Prophecy and its consultants have
attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual actions, events, or results to differ materially from those described
in forward- looking statements, there may be other factors that cause actions, events, or results not to be as anticipated,
estimated, or intended. Silver Elephant and its consultants undertake no obligation to publicly release any future revisions of
the forward-looking statements that reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date of this news release or reflect the
occurrence of unanticipated events, except as expressly required by law.