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Canadian Palladium's Initial Metallurgical Testwork Program Demonstrates Potential for Favourable Recoveries and Concentrate Grades at East Bull Palladium Deposit
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 22, 2023) - Canadian Palladium Resources...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Canadian Palladium's Initial Metallurgical Testwork Program Demonstrates Potential for Favourable Recoveries and Concentrate Grades at East Bull Palladium DepositVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - February 22, 2023) - Canadian Palladium Resources Inc. (CSE: BULL) (OTCQB: DCNNF) (FSE: DCR1) (the \"Company\") is pleased to report that SGS Canada Inc. of Lakefield, Ontario (SGS) has completed initial metallurgical test work on the East Bull Palladium Deposit, located 90 km west of Sudbury, Ontario, with favourable outcomes for metal recovery and concentrate grades. The preliminary, scoping level, flotation test work indicates that a concentrate product could be produced at a copper recovery of ~90% and palladium recovery of ~74% with grades of 16.5% Cu, ~50 g/t Pd, ~14 g/t Pt and ~9 g/t Au. These recoveries and grades were achieved with a favourable low mass pull of only 0.8% of the initial sample weight. SGS has also identified opportunities to further improve recoveries with additional test work.Mr. Wayne Tisdale, President and CEO, stated \"Canadian Palladium is pleased with the successful outcome of metallurgical test work at the East Bull Project. The recoveries and concentrate grades are good and are achieved with a high concentration ratio that should be beneficial to project economics. We are now in a great position to move forward with a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of this significant palladium resource. The upcoming financing will allow us to advance both our East Bull project as well as our extremely prospective property at Tisova on the Czech/German border\".The metallurgical study was performed on 40 kg drill core composites from each of the Valhalla and Garden Zones of the East Bull PGM project. The primary purpose of the metallurgical study was to characterize the sulphide mineralogy, and evaluate potential metal recoveries and concentrate quality for the East Bull Deposit. Testing included mineralogy, comminution, and flotation test work. The test samples from the Valhalla and Garden Zones had head grades of 0.58 g/t Pd, 0.17 g/t Pt, 0.15% Cu and 0.39 g/t Pd, 0.15 g/t Pt, 0.17% Cu respectively. Rougher flotation test work indicated that a grind size of 80% passing 35 μm was best for both samples. Comminution test work indicated that both samples were relatively hard and moderat...