Metallurgy Results - Positive Comments from Tim Marsh
This is from BS-3, excited to see what happens with BS-4!
Tim Marsh, Bell’s President and CEO, and a Qualified Person as defined by NI43-101, said,
“A first look at the metallurgical characteristics of the Big Sandy porphyry suggests that Bell should be considering multiple extraction alternatives as we pursue this exciting, ongoing discovery. This work shows that either conventional froth flotation or leaching is a candidate recovery method for the copper mineralization encountered in BS-3. Opportunities for fine-tuning of processes exist, but the initial effort to make a 25% copper concentrate at 82-84% recovery yielded a product that is attractive to copper smelters. If future engineering studies show that extraction via underground mining is unfavorable, the leaching studies suggest that in-situ extraction might be a feasible alternative. And for the second time in the opening days of this discovery story, elevated rhenium content of molybdenite in the BS-3 metallurgical sample, like the high rhenium content of molybdenite that was age-dated 1200 meters away in drillhole BS-1, suggests that high levels of the strategic metal rhenium is a hallmark of the Big Sandy porphyry system.”
Best regards, JM