NICKEL SULPHIDES IN - SERPENTINE + OLIVINENickel sulphides when merged with silicate, serpentines ( or ) olivines
can do three things.
1 - Remain separate as it's original mineral such as pentlandite suspended but
sealed in the silicate.
2 - Transition into solid solution ( nickel sulphate acid ) which crystalizes
= silcates take on a green color. ( various names of, serp + olivines )
3 - Nickel sulphides with complex bonds ( bonded to other minerals )
merge with silicates resulting in,
How important are yellows and greens when applied to - nickel sulphides ? Image of Nickel Sulphate https://www.mining-journal.com/w-images/da2d32f0-8f56-40ba-a03b-0efe9234b15f/3/nickelsulphate-1024x475.jpg
Wellgreen Ni-Cu-PGE deposit, Yukon.
Various solid-solutions occur in this deposit:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250273497_Platinum-group_minerals_from_the_Wellgreen_Ni-Cu-PGE_deposit_Yukon_Canada
As one can read, Minerals in Solid Solutions are important geology of, wellgree.
Heazlewoodite ( is found in the geology of, Wellgreen )
( other reports outside the 43 101 )
Green silicate nickel solid solution =
73.3% nickel content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heazlewoodite As mentioned in former posts Upto 50% nickel content can be found in, silicate lattice structure.
When speaking of nickel ( silicates )
EG -
50% pentlandite 50% nickel sulphide in solid solution green color Wanner see a photo of Wellgreen ? A photo not shown by the junior ( tease )
My takeaway ? Review scale 300m
Notice the numerous flat lenses
All Visable ( easy to track the minerals )
Deep green atop and med greens to bleeds of yellow sulphide greens
Lots of silicate sulphide greens.
Massive.
https://pubsaskdev.blob.core.windows.net/pubsask-prod/94873/94873-8_Lesher_Open_House_2015_Wed.pdf
Lab Assaying If dealing in sulphide minerals
why use assaying methods of,
1 nitric + 3 forms of chloric ?
What happens to Nickel Sulphide + Sulphuric Acid ?
NiS(s) + H2SO4(aq) = NiSO4(aq) + H2S(s) Works beautifully. Converts To Nickel sulphur oxide Gains 4 oxygen added weight
more $$$ payable - lol
In fact it's what the big players use, like
Glencore. https://minedocs.com/20/Glencore-Smelter-Sudbury-Operations-12312018.pdf What i like about this report is... Their extraction flowsheet looks nothing like NCP's flowsheet
xsp was designed by Glencore - where's our roasting phase - lol
nickel iron bonds - extraxt more easily with a roast.
Sulphide + Fluoride based.
Incomming cons are from juniors using chlorides ? lol
speculative.
Right out of the gates =
roasting phase - lol
where is our xps roasting phase lol
Notice the ores recieved are already concentrates
and still recieve -roasting.
Keep in mind...
Nickel sulphides can host in silicates as a sulphide.
pulling the sulphide from the silicate = extracts the nickel in
solid solution sulphide.
Glencore's extraction reads as,
roast, separate the sulphur + fluoro acids = produce nickel matte sulphate.
Roundabout.
Shouldn't junior's model their projects with same extraction format as major's ?
Not modelling the project with same extraction would result in ?
If wellgreen has numerous solid solution ( sulphur mineral solution )
should be really easy to pull the sulphide minerals out with
sulphuric acid yet.... all but sulphur is used.
Ironically... Solid solution minerals are not really spoken of in wellgreen reports.
Silicate solid solution minerals are revealed in, other reports outside 43 101
Nothing really about the magnesium nickel relationship
is nickel really associated to Mg
or....moreso
nickel sulphate solid solution in silicates ?
MET tests revealed high sulphur % in end concentrate ( on own )
why ?
Why the more than doibling of, Mg ?
And not doubling of, Nickel % ?
Such could point the compass to:
Check the silicates - where do they go in extraction phase
Check the sulphur acid - prior to removing sulphur acid- as a credit.
If one's really earger to learn more about serpentine / olivine silicate nickel,
Here's an extensive CNC report on ore characterization / extraction
https://magsul.laurentian.ca/filebrowser/download/329 Great read...but i think CNC's is moreso a nickel magnesium.
Versus Wellgreen could be moreso,
nickel sulphide solution in
the silicates (
Heazlewoodite ) Quite different.
Simply focus on the sulphur and nickel as a solution in sulphur acid.
Again,
double the magnesium in ncp's ( extraction )
nickel avg from 0.26% to only 0.31%
If nickel were assoc to Mg it shoild've doubled.
Thus... nickel sulphide solid solution in silicates could be the,
Bullseye.
Potential Proof ? Review the Wellgreen photo...
It's polluted in green hues.
Wink.
Cheers...