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Thule Black Sands Ilmenite Project Update
Thule Black Sands Ilmenite Project Update.
About this update from Alba Mineral Resources Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n RNS Number : 4283B\n Alba Mineral Resources PLC\n 08 October 2020\n \n \n \n \n Click on or paste the following link into your website browser to view the associated PDF document (including maps and images): \n \n \n http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/4283B_1-2020-10-7.pdf\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alba Mineral Resources plc\n \n \n \n (\"Alba\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n \n \n \n Commissioning of Metallurgical Process Development Programme \n \n \n for Thule Black Sands Ilmenite Project\n \n \n \n \n \n Alba Mineral Resources plc (AIM: ALBA) is pleased to provide an update on the Company's work activities at its 100% owned Thule Black Sands (\"TBS\") Project in northern Greenland. \n \n \n \n \n \n Key Points\n \n \n ·\n \n Mineral sands specialists IHC Robbins appointed to carry out comprehensive metallurgical process development and test work programme on TBS bulk sample\n \n \n \n ·\n \n The programme is designed to confirm the ilmenite products to be produced from TBS ilmenite and to provide product samples to enable potential customers and offtake partners to carry out their own confirmatory analyses\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alba's Executive Chairman, George Frangeskides, commented: \n \n \n \"We are delighted to be partnering again with leading mineral sands experts IHC Robbins on this important process development programme for our high-grade TBS ilmenite deposit in Greenland.\"\n \n \n \"This programme will enable us both to confirm the design of the processing facilities for TBS ilmenite and to provide us with the end product that we can send directly to key potential customers and offtake partners for their own confirmatory analyses. This programme is therefore a key step in the process of confirming TBS as a stand-alone development project in its own right and securing the project-level capital to fast-track TBS through the development phase.\" \n \n \n \"As previously announced, we also plan to substantially increase Resource tonnes next year by drilling at depth - remembering that the existing, already significant, 19 million tonne Resource is only modelled to the depth of the permafrost horizon, typically 1-2 metres from surface.\" \n \n \n \n Overview\n \n \n The Company has appointed IHC Robbins, leading mineral sand...