# CleanTech Commences Campbell-Crotser Fluorspar Mine Permitting at Prominent Kentucky Fluorspar District

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/cleantech-commences-campbell-crotser-fluorspar-mine-permitting-at-prominent-kent--20a7c73e-9ee7-4ea3-af89-ef0a7039fac0

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/CTV/news/5029738151882282/cleantech-commences-campbell-crotser-fluorspar-mine-permitting-at-prominent-kent

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2026-06-16T12:00:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: CleanTech Vanadium Mining Corp.

- Ticker: CTV

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Kentucky

- Primary commodity: Fluorspar

- Secondary commodities: Zinc, Lead

- Document categories: Permitting, Resource update

- Extracted: 2026-08-23 06:27:53 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.30 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

CleanTech has engaged a permitting specialist to initiate the permitting process for the proposed Campbell-Crotser underground fluorspar mine and flotation plant in Kentucky. The announcement also references a historical 1974 mineral resource estimate which the company notes is non-compliant with current CIM standards and requires validation.

Reasoning: The company is advancing the permitting phase for a fluorspar project, but the underlying resource data is a 50-year-old historical estimate that requires significant verification and upgrading to modern standards.

- Positive factor: Commencement of permitting process for underground mine and flotation plant

- Positive factor: Engagement of specialized permitting expert

- Negative factor: Resource data is historical \(1974\) and non-compliant with modern standards

- Negative factor: Historical estimate lacks QA/QC and documented methodology

- Negative factor: Company has not validated the historical data

Low confidence — this extraction should be reviewed alongside the original source.

Facts used in scoring: 6

## Classification and evidence

**Historical Estimate Only**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Estimate pre-dates or does not comply with current JORC/NI 43-101 standards — requires verification drilling.

Why it applies: The resource estimate provided is from 1974 and explicitly stated as non-compliant with current standards.

Evidence · text

> A historic \(non-43-101 compliant\) mineral resource estimate performed by Boyce Moodie III in 1974

**No QA/QC Disclosure**

Polarity: negative

Story-specific tag

Definition: Release does not disclose QA/QC — lab certification, CP/QP sign-off and assay protocols cannot be checked from this document.

Why it applies: The company explicitly states the historical estimate lacks documented QA/QC protocols.

Evidence · text

> absence of QA/QC protocols

**Inferred Resource**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Speculative category — limited drilling, geological continuity assumed but not confirmed. Cannot support economic studies alone.

Why it applies: The resource includes an Inferred category from the historical report.

Evidence · table

> Inferred

Context: 160,724

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 0. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

No stored fact records are available for this extraction.

## How Atlas produces this analysis

Minestarters Atlas uses automated extraction to summarize mining announcements, identify reported measurements, and classify supporting evidence. Sentiment reflects the extracted narrative and classification rules; it is an interpretation, not a reported measurement. Evidence quotes and context are provided where available. Missing data, low-confidence results, and review flags indicate limitations. Check the original publisher announcement before relying on an interpretation.