Camrova Resources Inc V.CAV.H

RE:Question for Mining MPMB re Our Manganese Deposit

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It's not difficult to recover managanese. Keep in mind the ore they are grinding at Boleo has copper, cobalt, zinc and manganese in it. Once they've extracted the copper (by electrowinning), the cobalt, and the zinc, there is still manganese in there. It could be as simple as putting that liquid into a series of agitated tanks and adding a specific reagent/chemical which is designed to help the manganese precipitate. Then they put that reagentized liquid into a calrifier or thickener, and the manganese particles will settle to the bottom (the reagents help it do this). It is drawn out from the thickener underflow by pumps, and pumped to some sort of dewatering process- either centrufuging or filter/belt press to remove moisture. Then you can dry it with a burner, and voila- manganese concentrate. Probably all in a 15-20M$ addition to the plant. It can be that simple. Again, I'm not privy to the Boleo process exactly, but that is one way to do it. If there's any kind of market for manganese, and Boleo has high concentration I really can't see why they wouldn't add this step.