Perpetua Resources Corp. (NASDAQ:PPTA) (TSX:PPTA) ("Perpetua Resources" or "Perpetua" or the "Company") today announced a new 36-month, $40 million award through the U.S. Army's Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium ("DOTC") from the Portfolio Acquisition Executive Agile Sustainment & Ammunition ("PAE AS&A") located at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J. This award will fund a program to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of producing tungsten concentrate at the historical Stibnite Mining District ("Stibnite") in Idaho. Structured as a cost-share program between the Company and the U.S. Government, funding will support drilling to define a potential tungsten mineral resource, collection of material for laboratory and bench-scale metallurgical testing and permitting and engineering of an exploration decline to access areas of known tungsten mineralization.

 

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