USV

HOT SPRINGS
FACILITY
HISTORY
FACILITY HISTORY
 1966 - Union Carbide Corporation began mining operations and stockpiling vanadium
 1968 - Processing Mill was completed and Production began.
 1984 - Union Carbide created UMETCO Minerals Corporation ( A wholly owned subsidiary of Union Carbide)

 1986 - Several managers of Umetco’s vanadium and tungsten business purchased that business
in a leveraged buyout, forming a new company called Strategic Minerals Corporation.
 Through this leveraged buyout two separate business entities were formed.
 U. S. Vanadium Corporation – North American Assets
 Vametco Minerals Corporation – South African Facility
 Umetco retained all rights and environmental responsibilities to the mining property located adjacent to the Hot Springs’
mill and facilities as well as sharing joint responsibility tailings pond.

 1998 - Nissho Iwai Corporation, a Japanese metals-trading company purchased 21% of Strategic
Minerals Corporation as an investment. (Changed their name to Sojitz)

 2004 - Due to organizational changes and for tax purposes of its North American interests the company
officially changed its name from U.S. Vanadium to Stratcor, Inc. ( Stratcor, Inc. remained a subsidiary of the Strategic Minerals
Corporation.)

 2006 - Evraz Group S.A., purchased about 79% of the company, making Strategic Minerals
Corporation part of the Evraz Group.

 2014 – Evraz Group S.A. separated Strategic Minerals Corporation & Evraz Stratcor, Inc. into two
separate business (Evraz Group owns 100% of Evraz Stratcor, Inc.)

 2017 – Evraz Group sold its shares in Strategic Minerals Corporation to Bushveld Minerals.
 2017 – Evraz Group sold its shares in Evraz Stratcor to US Vanadium LLC.

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HEALTH, SAFETY &
ENVIRONMENTAL
HS&E: H&S Regulatory Authority

MSHA - Mine Safety & Health Administration

MSHA ID#: 03-00479
South Central District
1100 Commerce Street, Room 462
MSHA Dallas, TX 75242-0499
(214) 767-8401

Review MSHA website for ESI site compliance

history.
www.msha.gov
Mine Data Retrieval System

Stratcor Inc. considers no phase of its operation or

administration more important than HS&E.
“HSE Core
Values” Our philosophy on HS&E is that our people are our
greatest asset and that their health & safety along with a
strong commitment to our community and the
environment is our greatest responsibility.

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Safety Culture & Programs

• HazCom Program
• Hearing Conservation Program
• Respiratory Protection Program
• Lockout-Energy Control Program
• ARC – Flash Engineering Study
• Safety Task Analysis Cards – STAC’s ( Non-routine Jobs)
• Monthly Area inspections Accident/Incident
Investigations
• Tickler System
• Green Card injury tracking system for minor injuries
• IH Sampling Program
ESI Safety • Dust, Noise, Ammonia & Chlorine
• Emergency Procedures Handbook
Culture • Loss Control Program
• PSM (Process Safety Management)Program
• Ammonia, Chlorine & Titanium Tetrachloride
• PHA (Process Hazard Analysis) Program
• Safety Bonus System
• $50 per quarter with no RII’s
• $200 per year with no LTI’s

We support these policies and programs with an HS&E Steering Committee

comprised of both salary and hourly personnel to address any issues at the
Facility.

Finally we strive to get all employees to actively participate in our program.

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Environmental Regulatory Agencies

• Federally Permitted by EPA Region 6

• EPA ID#: ARD 990742934
EPA 1445 Ross Avenue Suite 1200
Dallas, Texas 75202
(214) 665-6444

• State Agency: (ADEQ) Arkansas Dept. of Environmental

Quality
ADEQ 5301 Northshore Drive
North Little Rock, AR 72118-5317
(501) 682-07444

• Department of Homeland Security

DHS Nebraska Avenue Complex, 
Washington, D.C.

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Environmental Permits

• NPDES Permit # AR0000523

• AFIN: 26-00002
• Permitting Authority: ADEQ (Arkansas Department of
Environmental Quality)
• Outfall 001 Main Outfall to Lake Catherine
• TSS, NH3-N, Sulfates, Total Vanadium, Ph, River flow
• Acute Biomonitoring Permormed Quarterly.
• Outfall 002 Tailings decant and Stormwater runoff
NPDES • TSS, Sulfates, Cadmium, Copper, Lead, Mercury,
Selenium, pH
Permit • Chronic Biomonitoring.
• Outfall 003 cooling water, and Stormwater runoff
• TSS, Sulfates, Copper, Lead, Nickel, pH
• Chronic Biomonitoring.
• Outfall 008 Stormwater runoff from BOF slag pile,
seepage for old Flexicoke area
• TSS, Sulfates, Cadmium, Copper, Nickel, Zinc, pH
• Chronic Biomonitoring
• Routine Inspections By ADEQ – Water Division
• Renewal Date: January 31, 2021

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Environmental Permits

• SWPPP Permit # ARR000691

• Permitting Authority: ADEQ (Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality)
STORMWATER • Routine Inspections By ADEQ – Water Division
Permit • ESI has 6 Stormwater Outfalls that must be sampled at
least once per year.
• Renewal Date: June 16, 2019

• Minor Source Air Permit # 0010-AR-23

• AFIN: 26-00002
• Permitting Authority: ADEQ (Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality)
The main air pollutants are:
Ammonia permitted for 1673.9 tpy
VOC permitted for 74.8 tpy
PM permitted for 56.5 tpy
AIR PM10 permitted for 55.3 tpy
Permit NOx permitted for 27.2 tpy
CO permitted for 26.0 tpy
SO2 permitted for 7.2 tpy
Cl2 permitted for 5.4 tpy
HCl permitted for 4.8 tpy
TiCl4 permitted for 0.1 tpy
• Routine Inspections By ADEQ – Air Division
• No Expiration Date

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Environmental Permits

• ESI maintains an SPCC plan that complies with 40 CFR 112

SPCC for the various petroleum products, including processing oil,
Plan fuel oil and lubricating oil stored above ground within the
facility
• Permit Expires June 14, 2022

• RMP Facility ID#: ARD 1000 0004 3482

• ESI has three chemicals that fall under 40 CFR 68.
• Anhydrous Ammonia
RMP Prevention • Chlorine
Program 3 • Titanium Tetrachloride
• ESI has a (PSM) Process Safety Management Program
under 29 CFR 1910.119 for the chemicals listed above.
• Permit Expires March 7, 2023

• The Department of Homeland Security has assigned ESI a

Tier rating based in part on the possession of Titanium
DHS
Tetrachloride & Chlorine that raise a risk and
security/vulnerability concern for the facility.
• No further information can be provide without a CVI number.

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Site Aerial Photo

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MANAGEMENT
TEAM
MANAGEMENT TEAM

Jody Orme
CEO– 13 years with US
Vanadium

Matt Laper
Operations Manager – 24 years
Chad Martin
with US Vanadium COO– 14 years with US Vanadium

Rex Barker Shane Weatherford

Maintenance/Warehouse Superintendent - HR, HSE Manager – 25 years
37 Years with US Vanadium with US Vanadium

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OPERATIONS
OVERVIEW
 Feed Stock Evaluation

Sample Received
A feed stock sample is received and turned into the bucking room to be prepped and to determine % moisture
Bucking Room

Analytical Testing
The dried sample is turned into the analytical lab to determine V2O5% and other elements

Flexicok Residue Catalyst

Depending on composition and recoveries, a processing method is selected. Economics start to play a role.
e Leach Leach Leach

Canal: Low
Some material is processes
Ditch
as Va recycler and Stratcor is paid a fee. SAC – recycle fee
Cleanout
 Oxide Production

De c a nta tio n

Liq uid Io n Exc h a n g e

Le a c hin g
Fe e d Grin d in g

Re ve rse
O sm o sis

C rysta lliza tio n

Fin a l
Pro d u c t

Dryin g a n d C a lc in a tio n
Halides and Solutions Building
 VCl4 and VOCl3 Circuits

Filter

High Purity
Condenser
Vanadium Oxide
Reactor

High Purity
Chlorine Vanadium Chlorides
(VOCl3, VCl4)

Chlorinators used to produce VOCl3 and VCl4

Used as catalysts for EPDM and Polyethylene
production
 Products and Markets

 Intermediary product for the production of V2O3 &V2O5

 Environmental Catalyst Production
AMV  Pigment industry

 Production of Ferro Vanadium

 Qualified for Aerospace grade Vanadium Aluminum
V2O3  Nitride Vanadium Production
 Vanadium Redox Battery Electrolyte

 Production of Ferro Vanadium

 Qualified for Aerospace grade Vanadium Aluminum
V2O5  Sulfuric Acid Catalyst Production
 Maleic Anhydride Catalyst Production
 Vanadium Redox Battery Electrolyte
 Chlorinated Vanadium Products and Markets

 Catalyst for Production of EPDM

VOCl3

 Catalyst for Production of EPDM

VCL4  Production of Titanium Sponge Directly from TiCl4

 Catalyst for Production of Polyethylene through the

VT Sclairtech process
 Specialty Products and Markets

Vanadyl  Production of Environmental Catalyst

Sulfate/VRB  Battery Electrolyte

 Used in the Stretford Process for Refinery Stack

Sodium Scrubbing
Metavanadate

Vanadyl  Production of Environmental Catalyst

Oxalate
Questions?

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