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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n \n \n \n 6 September 2023\nBezant Resources Plc\n(\"Bezant\" or the \"Company\") \nResults from Phase 2 Metallurgical Test Work on Kanye Manganese Sample, Botswana\nand Update on Hope and Gorob Project, Namibia\n \nBezant (AIM: BZT) is pleased to provide information on further positive results of Phase 2 metallurgical testing carried out by Wardell Armstrong International ('WAI') on a sample from its' 100% owned Kanye manganese exploration project in Botswana. The primary objectives of the testwork were to optimise the leaching conditions to achieve high manganese recoveries at more economical conditions relative to the previous phase of testwork and to benchmark the project against other manganese projects.\n \nHighlights:\n \n· Phase 2 work followed on from previous metallurgical testing conducted by WAI, and reported in July 2023, aiming to optimise manganese recovery from the 'Moshaneng' sample whilst minimising the reagent consumption rates to improve process economics.\n \n· Sulphuric acid leaching optimisation testwork found that manganese recoveries of 99.5% were achievable at moderate process conditions, specifically 60°C leaching temperature, 300kg/t of sulphur dioxide addition, and 284kg/t of sulphuric acid consumption.\n \n· Grind size had minimal influence on the final manganese recovery with 88.0% and 88.3% manganese recovery achieved for feed material particle size distributions of 80% passing 200µm and 80% passing 150µm respectively.\n \n· Leaching temperature had negligible effect on the final manganese recovery with 88.0% and 89.5% manganese recovery achieved for leach temperatures of 60°C and 90°C respectively.\n \n· Leach kinetics of manganese recovery were dependant on the sulphur dioxide addition rate. Sulphur dioxide introduced incrementally, demonstrated a staged manganese recovery.\n \n· A Benchmark Project Review was carried out on three recent manganese projects which were identified as having a similar geographical location and/or producing final products of a similar specification.\no Giyani Metals K.Hill Project Botswana;\no Manganese X Energy Corp....