Wenden Stockpile Bench-scale Testing Proect
Congressman Paul Gosar's (R-AZ) field office staff, Penny Pew, visited the Wenden Stockpile in support of the project's potential to create a domestic supply of manganese production, for which the U.S. has been 100% import-dependent since 1973.
The Wenden Stockpile contains approximately 322,000 metric tons of low-grade manganese, which was purchased by the U.S. Government in the 1950s and 1960s. The stockpile has been inactive due to the need of specialized processing methods to transform the low-grade manganese into useful forms of advanced manganese material.
During the 2-day process, a total of approximately 550 pounds of material was collected in 16 commercial-grade-heavy sealed buckets, with sample locations geo-tagged.
If American Manganese is successful in its bench-scale testing project, it could provide an opportunity to build a processing facility to transform the sub-economic manganese resources into a valuable source of EMM.
"We are thrilled to complete the sampling work ahead of schedule, especially as we get into the holiday season," said Larry Reaugh, President and CEO of American Manganese. "In the awarded project timeline, our next step will be to conduct assays and leach tests on the samples, which we plan to report in the new year as data is received."
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So, everybody stay tuned for updates. AMY can follow and build its own processing facility with its contract with the US Government.