RE:RE:RE:RE:CSK.... This is quoted directly from the Technical report:
1.7 MINERAL PROCESSING AND METALLURGICAL TESTING
Preliminary metallurgical testwork shows excellent gold recoveries to a gravity + flotation concentrate. From four composite tests at BV Minerals Metallurgical Division, gold recoveries averaged 96.2% in pyrite concentrates, with overall gold recoveries after concentrate extraction anticipated to be on the order of 88%. Mineralogical studies demonstrated that no deleterious elements such as As, Sb or Hg were detected within the Goldstorm and Copper Belle Zones.
DYOD
cskhurasu wrote: Thanks for your attempt to address my issues.
Let's deal with the first one first. Yes the met tests recovered a very high percentage of gold in a concentrate but because the ore is refractory, the concentrate is still 40% of the mined material so the grade of the concentrate is only 2 grams of gold per tonne. There is no way this is economic to move much less refine. If I recall, SEA is getting a concentrate around six times that in gold and nearly 25% copper...I would need to look that up to be sure...so the KSM concentrate is valuable enough to ship anywhere and pay for refining with a healthy profit afterwards.
To make Treaty Creek concentrate economic you would need to bring the volume of the concentrate from 40% of the mined material down to...say...4% so as to bring the concentrate grade up 10 fold. It's simple math driving economics. Can TUD generate a high grade concentrate from low grade refractory ore economically? That's the challenge which you appear not yo fully appreciate.