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InvestorIntel: Critical Elements Increases Tantalum Recovery Rate by 50% in Recent Metallurgical Advances
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 15, 2013) - Tracy Weslosky, Publisher of Investor...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nInvestorIntel: Critical Elements Increases Tantalum Recovery Rate by 50% in Recent Metallurgical AdvancesToronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 15, 2013) - Tracy Weslosky, Publisher of InvestorIntel interviews Jean-Sébastien Lavallée, President and CEO of Critical Elements Corporation (TSXV: CRE) (OTCQX: CRECF) to discuss the company’s excellent stock performance and recently released positive optimization metallurgical test results from it’s flagship Rose property. Critical Elements is actively developing its 100%-owned Rose Lithium-Tantalum Project located in James Bay, Quebec. Tracy Weslosky starts (TW): I’m here today with Jean-Sébastien Lavallée. How are you today? Jean-Sébastien Lavallée (JSL): I’m pretty well. TW: And of course you’re The CEO and President for Critical Elements Corporation. I get emails about you all the time and last week your stock was the second highest rising performer. You had some really big news having to do with metallurgy recently, and your Rose Tantalum-Lithium Project, is that correct? JSL: Yes, in the last three weeks we’ve released two news releases about metallurgy; one about the lithium recoveries, the grade and the concentrate, and the other one is on the tantalum recoveries. We increased the recoveries of tantalum by 50%, so it’s significant for the project. It still needs to be validated by pilot plant testing and the Feasibility Study, but it can increase the production of tantalite by over 100,000 pounds per year. TW: Your optimization numbers were very high, 90%+ with the tantalum, is that correct? JSL: The optimization is on the recovery. We’re doing an optimization program to increase the recovery. Initially in the PEA the recovery was around 50%, the recent results give us an average of 77.6% recovery on the tantalum. TW: Could you give some of our audience, who might not understand tantalum as well as you do for instance, a little bit of a background about the advantages of tantalum and why your resource is so unique, specifically having to do with where most tantalum is found around the world. JSL: Tantalum has a really specific application in that it can absorb a lot of heat and redistribute all of the energy in very small electronic devices. So this is why you have such small phones, co...