RE: RE A Heart ofnagged...hope we are on the same team here.
I have looked into this further since you had a few questions and this is what I have learned...great stuff and important in showing the relative ease in how the milling process will work.
So, most importantly, there’s no arsenopyrite at Leprechaun Pond!!....there’s about 1% pyrite.
Also of note is that most of the gold will be recovered via gravity separation which requires no chemicals what-so-ever and the remainder will come from a concentrate of the pyrite where it will be chemically treated to dissolve and precipitate gold.
The news release date Aug 11 said : "... gravity separation results on sample ground to 80% passing 71 and 120 microns gave gold recoveries of 58% and 45%, respectively....which is very high and indicative of coarse gold. Standard cyanide bottle roll leach tests undertaken on the tailings from the gravity separation tests gave total gravity plus leach recoveries of between 93% to 94% for the finer sample and 89% to 91% for the coarse ground material.".
It is known that in a massive sulphide mine the tailings are mostly sulphides with small amounts of unrecovered base metals. At Leprechaun Pond, it has been confirmed that at the end of the process the tailings will almost be the same composition as the original rock that you would walk on at the property today(gold removed of course), except afterward it will be in powdered form. Very friendly stuff.
So it appears that the Milling process at VLake that it will be almost environmentally neutral...this story keeps getting better and better...C.Gert
PS...like Rock says...no need to be getting this far ahead of ourselves. Newfoundland is well known around the world as a supported of the mining industry for the significant benefits it provides the Province...C.G.