Post by
Wangotango67 on Sep 22, 2023 1:05pm
HISTORICAL MINERAL INTEL ( interesting )
Note - 2018 - 43 101 reports rare minerals in ( ppm's )
Nontheless, this is a very interesting read.
Irony is... historical grades were far higher...lol
Reveals... Hudson Bay Mining mined and extracted....
Wait for it....Rare Platinum group metals ( critical minerals )
A total of 171 652 tonnes of ore was milled which produced 33 853 tonnes of concentrate grading 2.23% nickel, 1.39% copper, 1 300 ppb platinum, 920 ppb palladium, 171 ppb gold, 400 ppb rhodium, 420 ppb ruthenium, 250 ppb iridium 200 ppb osmium and 200 ppb rhenium.
Research conducted by Campbell (1976) and others after Hudson Bay ceased production found that the massive sulphide lenses are fine grained and consist mostly of pyrrhotite with lesser amounts of chalcopyrite, pentlandite and magnetite. The pentlandite occurs as exsolution flames in pyrrhotite. Individual sulphide lenses vary from 1 to 18 m thick and are interpreted as magmatic segregation deposits. Assays as high as 4.57% nickel, 1.58% copper, 0.10% cobalt, 4.14 g/t platinum and 3.08 g/t palladium over 6 m have been recorded, and a 9.8 m chip sample across the East zone lens gave a representative grade of 2.44% nickel, 2.07% copper, 0.94% cobalt, 2 400 ppb platinum, 2 200 ppb palladium, 1 020 ppb gold, 560 ppb rhodium, 650 ppb ruthenium, 440 ppb osmium and 550 ppb iridium. These numbers show that the Wellgreen massive sulphides contain an unusually high proportion of the rarer platinum group elements, especially osmium, iridium, ruthenium and rhodium.
Link -
https://data.geology.gov.yk.ca/Occurrence/17432#InfoTab
Imagine if the PFS included...
Titanium
Iron tonnages
Ru, Os, Rh, In, Te
And modelled with ( hydrogen power ) or river turbine electricity.
Hence,
second MET tests and diff engineering firm would be ideal.
Those unique platinum group rares....command big bucks.
Keep in mind.... Upto 40 PGM's extracted along with the magnetite.
I'd be ditching Glencores XPS extraction, and finding another who
specializes in, iron pgm - extraction.
Can i now assume ?
When NCP mentions PGM's....
They're referring to other rare platinum group minerals besides
platinum and palladium - or - are we only seeing Pt, Pl values ?
Who knows.