Elevate Uranium Limited (ASX: EL8 | OTC:ELVUF) has now completed excavation of eight test pits at its Koppies Uranium Project in Namibia, where the company has a JORC resource of 58Mlb eU3O8.
To expedite and obtain samples for metallurgical beneficiation testwork, the company has excavated test pits to provide representative samples for the testwork. The shallow nature of the resource at Koppies provides the opportunity to collect these samples from pits that are excavated to a maximum depth of only six metres.
Elevate Uranium’s Managing Director, Murray Hill, commented: “The company has now completed excavation of eight test pits at the Koppies Uranium Project. Excavation of test pits is the first stage of planned metallurgical testwork programmes using our proprietary U-pgradeTM beneficiation process. The shallow depth of the Koppies resource lends itself to collection of samples from test pits, and bulk samples are by far the most representative samples to present to a beneficiation testwork programme. Samples have been collected for mineralogy and geological analyses, which will then feed into the bench scale U-pgradeTM beneficiation testwork programme.”
The location of the test pits as selected to ensure representative samples of Koppies mineralization were collected and based on the following factors:
- Proximity of mineralization to the surface
- Range of uranium grades
- Range of gangue mineral grades, especially calcite
- Range of lithologies
- Distribution through Koppies 1, 2, and 3 project areas, where 91% of the resource is located
Murray continued:
“Visual observations of the mineralization in the test pits are highly encouraging, showing large areas of the exposed yellow uranium mineral, carnotite, which the company expects will be effectively beneficiated using U-pgradeTM. The focus of the U-pgradeTM beneficiation testwork programme on samples from the Koppies Uranium Project will be to confirm the anticipated results at bench scale level before preparing for a future U-pgradeTM beneficiation pilot plant.”
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