Wangotango67 wrote: FPX - NICKEL GRADES As reported in a NI 43-101 resource estimate prepared on February 26, 2018, the Baptiste deposit contains 1.843 billion tonnes of indicated resources at an average grade of
0.123% DTR nickel, for 2.3 million tonnes of DTR nickel
NCP -
2/billion pounds Nickel @
0.16% NCP - has extra credits in other minerals - that FPX - doesn't have.
2 billion pounds of nickel,
1 billion pounds of copper,
6 million ounces of platinum group metals ("PGM's")
120 million pounds of cobalt in the measured and indicated categories FPX - Has recently performed extraction on thier nickel metal - and has very impressive recoveries. LESS CREDITS - strictly dealing in - Nickel + Iron...easier for extraction.
- Confirmation of the amenability of Decar nickel concentrate to conventional pressure leaching at moderate pressure and temperature, achieving nickel recoveries of 98.8% to 99.5% in the production of high-purity chemical solution containing 69.4 to 70.1 g/L nickel
- Rapid nickel extraction (over 98% extraction in under 60 minutes)
NCP- Has a 53.3% Nickel recovery ( keep in mind - far more minerals to - sort + extract )
NCP - Is using a Glencore extraction firm.
MY TAKE ? Back track to the RAW ORE.
Do not fire assay nor perform Acid tests to determine minerals.
INSTEAD - Find out if the Platinum Group of Metals + Nickel are nature alloyed.
If alloyed by nature - then...one could focus on this alloyed metal - and work the extraction
from the dry sorting ( air + hydra cyclone ) to single out these metals based on molecular weights - if iron is present....simply introduce magnetic separator.
It may sound obsurd - to revert back to the beginning - yet...how would one know for sure if
The platinum + nickel are not alloyrd if one simply uses acids and reagents and floats ?
Knowing this ahead of time...may allow the junior to PRESORT based on simple standard methods and upon doing so - they might facilitate a far better concentrate prior to floatation.
Something - to think about.
NCP RAN WITH - The Metallurgical Program has been conducted in partnership with
XPS Expert Process Solutions ("XPS"), a
Sudbury based technical consultancy firm that is conducting the metallurgical testwork on behalf of Nickel Creek and has extensive experience in flowsheet development and nickel-copper separation.
FPX RAN WITH ALS - ALS Metallurgy in Kamloops, British Columbia and overseen by Jeffrey B. Austin, P. Eng., President of International Metallurgical and Environmental Inc.
XPS - IS APART OF
GLENCORE Isn't Glencore into Nickel ?
Sure are.
So why is it....NCP - is throtteling the extraction ?
EXTRACTION UNLOCKS THE RESOURCE....
Yet...NCP - wants to drill Quill.
Fresh news points tro dilution and...
We're sitting below the $.06/cent PP - WITH - a CAP on the ASK....coincidence ?
lol
Perhaps...NCP - will snap from this....
Do a 180 - front platinum group metals...
Maybe entertain FPX - extraction - after all....
Why settle with a Glencore 53% - and run off to drill more = avoiding the extraction.
Cheers...