# CleanTech Doubles Fluorspar Mineral Rights to 15,975 Acres with Quarant Project Acquisition in Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/cleantech-doubles-fluorspar-mineral-rights-to-15-975-acres-with-quarant-project--987f6f08-9406-4fbe-9998-7edec5ea1aa9

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/CTV/news/7643549333990534/cleantech-doubles-fluorspar-mineral-rights-to-15-975-acres-with-quarant-project-

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2025-10-08T13:10:00.000Z

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, Silver, Lead, Germanium, Gallium

- Document categories: Agreement transaction, Drill results

- Extracted: 2026-08-23 06:40:48 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

CleanTech Vanadium Mining Corp. has acquired the 7,825-acre Quarant fluorspar project in Kentucky, doubling its total mineral rights to 15,975 acres. The transaction includes a lease assignment and a 2.5% royalty on zinc and fluorspar sales, positioning the company as a major fluorspar player in the US.

Reasoning: The acquisition nearly doubles the company's land holdings and adds a strategic project in a major fluorspar district, though much of the cited resource data is historical and unverified.

- Positive factor: Significant land mass increase

- Positive factor: Strategic acquisition in prolific district

- Positive factor: Synergistic proximity to existing flagship project

- Negative factor: Historical resource data lacks validation/QAQC

- Negative factor: Acquisition involves royalty obligations

Facts used in scoring: 4

## Classification and evidence

**Nearology Play**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Value premise rests on proximity to a known deposit rather than own results.

Why it applies: The Quarant Project is described as surrounding the existing flagship Campbell-Crotser project.

Evidence · text

> The acquisition is highly synergistic as the Quarant Project surrounds CleanTech's flagship Campbell-Crotser fluorspar-silver-zinc project

**No QA/QC Disclosure**

Polarity: negative

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 that the historical resource estimate lacks documented estimation methodology and absence of QA/QC protocols.

Evidence · text

> absence of QA/QC protocols

## 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.