Jun 11 2014
BlueOak Resources, a leader in the sustainable sourcing of high-value metals from e-waste, and brainchild of co-founders Priv Bradoo & Bryce Goodman, today announced it has partnered with the Arkansas Teachers' Retirement Fund, a consortium of European and domestic investors, and the Arkansas Development Finance Authority towards the build-out of the first urban mining refinery in the U.S. capable of retrieving valuable metals including gold, silver, copper and palladium from e-waste.
双方已向该设施投资了3500万美元的初始资本金额。开创性的活动于今天下午12:30在阿肯色州奥斯科拉（Osceola）举行，并将包括阿肯色州经济发展委员会执行董事Grant Tennille的演讲，以及前副总裁Al Gore，Al Gore是现有Blueoak投资者Kleiner Perkins的合伙人。
"The United States is building a domestic supply chain to tackle the challenges presented by e-waste, and Arkansas has the talent pool and business environment to attract the cutting-edge companies like BlueOak that will comprise that supply chain," Governor Mike Beebe said. "This facility highlights our commitment to bring more manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., and back to Arkansas."
阿肯色州奥西拉（Osceola）的开创性设施非常重要，因为它标志着美国同类产品的第一个城市采矿设施，这是一种可以振兴美国制造业的发展的例子。Blueoak的炼油商业模式的灵感来自于钢铁行业的迷你磨坊中断的典型案例研究，该钢铁工业的新时代引入了钢铁生产的新时代。迷你磨坊的分布性质允许从再生钢废料中最低的成本产生钢的成本生产。Blueoak打算通过在美国以及从电子垃圾中收回高价值金属的全球范围内创建分布式的城市炼油厂来利用对黄金，银，铜和钯等高度的“技术金属”需求。阿肯色州工厂的生产将于2015年底开始，最初处理1500万磅。每年的电子废料，并计划快速扩张，为该地区带来50个高薪的技术工作。
Heartland Renaissance Fund，总部位于洛杉矶的国家新市场基金和美国Bancorp社区发展公司共同提供了新市场税收抵免融资，这对于帮助Blueoak达到今天的里程碑至关重要。这些团体也是Blueoak交易的主要资助合作伙伴，该合作伙伴由全球主要合作伙伴安排和结构。“创建了新的市场税收抵免是为了赋予美国农村社区的能力和积极影响的愿景，而Blueoak项目使我们能够在Osceola做到这一点，” Heartland Renaissance Fund的总裁Sam Walls说。阿肯色州首都公司集团。
"This opportunity with BlueOak aligns with our investment goals by coupling significant economic potential with a meaningful impact on society and the environment," said George Hopkins, Executive Director of the Arkansas Teachers' Retirement Fund.
Dumping e-waste in landfills and worse, exporting it to countries where e-waste is handpicked over open fires, represents not only an environmental disaster, but also the loss of millions of tons of valuable resources. Circuit boards, cell phones and other electronics are made with sizable amounts of gold, silver, copper and palladium – high-value metals that are currently lost to landfills. And, while Europe has established a thriving supply chain around this challenge, BlueOak is the U.S.'s only urban refinery dedicated to recovering precious metals from e-waste.
"Our milestone today is indicative of a larger, more meaningful movement in which Silicon Valley meets Industrial America, a phenomenon that is crucial to retaining U.S.'s global competitiveness and fostering our work force," said Privahini Bradoo, CEO of BlueOak. "We believe that by coupling innovative technology approaches with the U.S.'s wealth of manufacturing expertise and talent we can transform what has become a crippling global problem into a tremendous economic opportunity for our investors, partners, community and country."
Source:http://blueoakresources.com