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Bulk Sampling Complete
Bulk Sampling Complete.
About this update from Blencowe Resources Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n Date: 27 February 2023 \n \n Blencowe Resources Plc\n \n \n \n (\"Blencowe\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bulk Sampling at Orom-Cross Graphite Project complete, Final Stage Metallurgical Testing commenced\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Highlights\n \n \n \n ·\n 100 tonne bulk sample mining completed.\n \n \n ·\n Transport underway to Chinese graphite processing specialist Jilin Huiyang New Material Technology Company Ltd (\"Jilin\") for final metallurgical testing in its existing facilities.\n \n \n ·\n Additional 150kgs sample already sent to Jilin for initial off-site testing.\n \n \n ·\n Ugandan Government had approved landmark one-off permit for Blencowe to export bulk sample graphite from Orom-Cross earlier in Q1 2023.\n \n \n \n \n \n Blencowe Resources Plc (\"Blencowe Resources\" or the \"Company\") (LSE: BRES) is pleased to announce it has completed the mining and packaging of both the 100t bulk sample and 150kg of sample from its flagship Orom-Cross Graphite Project. In January 2023 the Company received an approval from the Ugandan Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development to export materials from its Orom-Cross Graphite Project to Chinese testing facilities to enable final bulk metallurgical test work to be undertaken. Blencowe has mandated industry specialist Jilin to complete this test work in their existing plant facility, negating the requirement for the Company to build its own bulk testing facility on-site in the near term, saving both considerable time and cost.\n \n \n This final stage of metallurgical test work is a key component of the ongoing Definitive Feasibility Study. Blencowe has already proven twice (in Canada/SGS and Australia/IMO) that it can achieve a high grade, low impurity 97% LOI concentrate from a composite mix of its two deposits at Orom-Cross. The Company expects to achieve the same results with this significantly larger sample size, thereby enabling the pre-qualification of end products and subsequent entry into binding offtake contracts.\n \n \n Works to excavate and transport the bulk samples were undertaken under supervision of the Company's geologists and the Ugandan Department of Geology, Survey and Mines (DGSM). Works were carried out by local Uganda firm ADT/LogVoy. The 100t bulk sample and the 400litres of groundwater...