First Cobalt Corp. announced it has engaged Brown and Caldwell at the Iron Creek Project to provide guidance on permitting and to develop an environmental baseline study strategy. First Cobalt has engaged Brown and Caldwell as its primary environmental and permitting consultant for the Iron Creek Project in Idaho, USA due to the firm's strong reputation as a leading environmental consulting, engineering, design, and construction firm with more than 55 offices across the USA and Canada and over 70 years of experience. Services will be provided from its Boise, Idaho office, which has extensive experience in project permitting, water management, environmental monitoring, and reclamation. Brown and Caldwell will be providing permitting guidance and overseeing the collection of environmental baseline data at the Iron Creek Project. Water quality data collection commenced in 2017 and is ongoing. The Iron Creek Project has an Inferred Resource estimate of 26.9 million tonnes grading 0.11% cobalt equivalent (0.08% Co and 0.30% Cu containing 46.2 million pounds of cobalt and 176.2 million pounds of copper) under a base case scenario pit constrained and deeper mineral resource. An alternative underground-only scenario results in 4.4 million tonnes grading 0.23% Co and 0.68% Cu (0.30% CoEq) using a cutoff underground grade of 0.18% CoEq and containing 22.3 million pounds of cobalt and 66.7 million pounds of copper. The Inferred Resource is based on drilling over a strike length of approximately 500 metres and a dip extent of over 150 metres. Preliminary metallurgical testing concludes that simple flotation methods are applicable, yielding recoveries of 96% for cobalt and 95% for copper in rougher floatation. Drilling continued through to the end of 2018 to extend the strike length of the mineralized zone and test down dip extensions of known cobalt-copper zones. An updated Mineral Resource estimate is anticipated towards the end of the first quarter of 2019. The environmental baseline data, the updated Mineral Resource estimate and other technical studies will be incorporated into a Preliminary Economic Assessment planned for the latter half of 2019.