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September 04, 2014 --- Vol. 08, No. 36September 2014

Yukon Territory

GOLD – Atac Resources Ltd. Sept. 4 reported the completion and filing of a positive preliminary economic assessment for the oxide portion of the Tiger Deposit located at the western end of the company’s Rackla Gold Project in Yukon Territory. Atac reported a summary of the results from the PEA July 23, 2014. The report, titled, “Preliminary Economic Assessment NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Tiger Gold Project Yukon Territory, Canada,” is filed on SEDAR and can be viewed at www.sedar.com under the Atac profile or on Atac’s website at www.atacresources.com. The independent technical report was prepared by Kappes Cassiday & Associates, Tetra Tech, Inc., Giroux Consultants Ltd., Resource Strategies and Gerald G. Carlson, Ph.D., P.Eng. As a matter of record, Atac also reported that a typographical error was contained in the “Economic Results and Sensitivities Summary” table comprising part of the July 2014 PEA summary news release. In the “$1,100 US$/oz” column of the table, the After-Tax Cumulative Net Cash Flow should have read “$26.3 million,” not “$10.4 million” as originally reported.

METALLURGY – Wellgreen Platinum Ltd. Sept. 3 reported the results of its recent metallurgical testing and the comprehensive review and assessment of earlier metallurgical test programs from its Wellgreen platinum-group-metals-nickel-copper project, located in the Yukon Territory. Testing in 2013 and 2014 completed by SGS Lakefield Research Ltd. and XPS Consulting & Test work Services, a unit of GlencoreXstrata, along with previous studies undertaken by SGS and G&T Metallurgical Services Ltd., included batch and locked-cycle testing on 195 drill core samples from across the main Wellgreen resource area. Metallurgical test work using conventional flotation shows improved recoveries for all major metals when compared with the 2012 preliminary economic assessment, including increases of 35 percent for platinum and 13 percent for nickel. Results indicate potential production of a high-value bulk nickel-copper-PGM concentrate with grades of 6-10 percent nickel and 8-12 percent copper with 11-14 grams per metric ton 3E (platinum, palladium and gold), plus an additional 1-4 g/t of rare PGMs (rhodium, iridium, osmium and ruthenium). Improved conventional flotation metal recovery was attained through identification of three major geologic and metallurgical domains with differing response characteristics; optimization of grind size, reagent selection, pH and conditioning time for each domain; use of a magnetic separation process with re-grinding of magnetic material for some domains; testing included bulk flotation processes, sequential flotation and bulk separation to produce individual high quality nickel and copper concentrates, which will be assessed further in the future; and additional secondary recovery processes also have identified, which could increase extraction of the unrecovered PGM material. These new metallurgical test results are the second major milestone for completion of the 2014 Wellgreen Preliminary Economic Assessment and follow upon the recently updated Wellgreen mineral resource estimate of July 2014. Wellgreen Platinum is fully-funded for completion of the PEA and for initiation of pre-feasibility level studies, which will commence with a drilling program scheduled to begin in September. The metallurgical test programs were designed to increase confidence in the metal recovery process for the Wellgreen mineralization. Based on the new test results and the comprehensive review of previous metallurgical test programs on the Wellgreen project, the company anticipates that the proposed conventional sulphide flotation process will result in improvement in the overall average recovery for all major metals as compared to the 2012 PEA, particularly for the platinum group metals and nickel. This analysis was based on 183 batch samples and 12 locked-cycle tests (LCTs) for the three major metallurgical domains – gabbro / massive sulphides, clinopyroxenite / pyroxenite, and peridotite – that investigated bulk concentrates, sequential flotation, bulk concentrate separation and magnetic separation processes, some of which produced separate nickel and copper concentrates.

GOLD – Kaminak Gold Corp. Sept. 1 reported results for 27 drill holes from the recently completed, C$3.5 million, 2014 phase 1 drill campaign at the Coffee gold project, Yukon Territory. The objective of the program was to test priority gold-in-soil anomalies situated proximal to the current resource that have the potential to contribute high-value, open-pit oxide resources to the existing mine plan. Kaminak recently announced the results from a preliminary economic assessment at Coffee demonstrating a robust, high-margin, rapid pay-back, 11-year open pit mining project using a US$1,250 per ounce gold price. Kaminak said the phase-1 drilling identified near-surface predominately oxidized gold mineralization at the Kona North zone; added 900 meters to the Supremo T3 trend; and intersected high-grade gold mineralization at Cappuccino. “Ongoing exploration of the numerous high-tenor geochemical anomalies remaining at Coffee continues to demonstrate the resource upside of the project and has the potential to enhance the already positive, high-margin economics at Coffee as demonstrated in the recently completed PEA,” said Kaminak President and CEO Eira Thomas. Results from phase-1 drilling at Kona North include: 28 meters of 3.55 g/t gold from a depth of 14 meters and nine meters of 2.66 g/t gold from a depth of 53 meter in hole CFD376; and eight meters of 4.05 g/t gold from a depth of 38 meters and eight meters of 3.79 g/t gold from 51 meters in hole CFD379. Additional drilling is underway to determine the structural orientation and geometry of the zone and to delineate near-surface oxide ounces that may be incorporated into the feasibility study. The phase-1 drilling also extended the Supremo T3 zone some 1,000 meters to the north, increasing the strike of this gold-rich zone to at least 3,500 meters. The best intercepts occurred at the intersection of T3 and the Macchiato trends, including: 14 meters of 1.95 g/t gold from a depth of 81 meters and nine meters of 2.21 g/t gold from a depth of 128 meters in hole CFD356. Kaminak said the magnetic and geochemical signature for T3 extends a further 1,000 meters north, warranting systematic step-out drilling in that direction. A Phase II exploration program is now underway at Coffee. With the goal of augmenting the resource inventory, which will be incorporated into the final feasibility study, the C$2 million will target Kona North primarily and other additional priority gold-in-soil anomalies proximal to the current resource. “Delineation drilling at Kona North is underway with the goal of defining a near-surface, oxide resource that may be incorporated into the Coffee Feasibility Study,” said Kaminak President and CEO Eira Thomas. “Ongoing exploration of the numerous high-tenor geochemical anomalies remaining at Coffee continues to demonstrate the resource upside of the project and has the potential to enhance the already positive, high-margin economics at Coffee as demonstrated in the recently completed PEA. Delineation drilling at Kona North is underway with the goal of defining a near surface, oxide resource that may be incorporated into the Coffee Feasibility Study.” Feasibility activities, which began in the third quarter, include infill drilling, additional metallurgical test-work, continued environmental baseline activities and a condemnation program. Kaminak anticipates completing the feasibility study by early 2016.


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