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Doubleview Completes Detailed Mineralogical Study of Scandium Distribution of Head and Metallurgical Samples of the Hat Deposit
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 9, 2022) - Doubleview Gold Corp. (TSXV:...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Doubleview Completes Detailed Mineralogical Study of Scandium Distribution of Head and Metallurgical Samples of the Hat DepositVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 9, 2022) - Doubleview Gold Corp. (TSXV: DBG) (OTCQB: DBLVF) (FSE: 1D4) (\"Doubleview\") is pleased to announce that a detailed mineralogical study of the distribution of scandium in its 100% owned Hat deposit head and metallurgical samples has been completed. Hat Copper-Gold-Cobalt deposit is located in the Golden Triangle region of Atlin Mining District in British Columbia. Assay data and metallurgical testwork has indicated that the Hat deposit contains scandium at elevated levels of 45 ppm to 50 ppm twice that normally found in crustal rocks. A comprehensive testwork program is currently underway at Sepro Laboratories in Langley, BC to investigate the potential for scandium recovery and extraction.Initial investigations have shown that scandium is primarily associated with clinopyroxene and amphiboles and that during bulk flotation testwork 99.5% of the scandium reported to the flotation tailings. Bulk flotation tails will be used as the feed to the scandium recovery testwork, which will be undertaken during the next few weeks. Test results have demonstrated that the Hat deposit has favourable metallurgical extraction characteristics for a range of elements including, copper, gold, cobalt, silver and PGE. So far, the results from the testwork have been in line with expectations. The testwork is now proceeding to the hydrometallurgical extraction phase and is initially focussed on scandium extraction and optimisation. Thereafter it is anticipated that the testwork will then proceed to the scandium recovery phase. Doubleview CEO, Mr. Farshad Shirvani commented \"The company is extremely encouraged with the latest phase of metallurgical work. The potential impact of being able to include economically recoverable scandium to the Hat Deposit is significant.\"An earlier testwork program demonstrated that it was possible to produce a high-gold, low-cobalt copper concentrate and a low-gold, high-cobalt pyrite concentrate from Hat mineralogical materials. Current flotation testwork is aimed at generating flotation tailings for scandium extraction tests. Supplementary flotation testwork on current scandium samples above an assumed 0.15% copper cut-...