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Positive Results from Metallurgical Test Work
Positive Results from Metallurgical Test Work.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 3763T Georgian Mining Corporation 12 October 2017 \n\nGeorgian Mining Corporation / EPIC: GEO / Sector: Natural Resources\n12 October 2017\n \nGeorgian Mining Corporation\nPositive Results from Metallurgical Test Work\n \nGeorgian Mining Corporation ('GEO' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce positive results from metallurgical test work completed on both copper sulphide and gold oxide core samples taken from the Kvemo Bolnisi East Project (\"KB\") on the Tethyan Belt in Georgia. The testwork, which was undertaken by Wardell Armstrong International Ltd, included scoping level metallurgical testing and returned highly favourable results indicating that the copper sulphide mineralisation is amenable to flotation recovery of copper and gold and the gold oxide mineralisation is amenable to heap leach extraction of gold. \n \nThe Company believes KB hosts large scale epithermal gold-copper mineralisation and a three-phase strategy is underway to deliver more than 50Mt of copper-gold resources at KB. To date 3.154Mt @ 0.82% Cu & 0.14g/t Au and a gold oxide resource of 2.29Mt @ 0.85g/t Au have been delineated in accordance with the guidelines of the JORC Code (2012), which meets the Company's Phase 2 target of 3-5Mt. \n \nCopper-Gold Sulphide Ore - Flotation Testing\n· Testwork indicates copper and gold found in KB mineralisation is recoverable using standard froth flotation metallurgical processing techniques \n· Highly favourable peak recoveries of >90% for copper and 98.4% for gold achieved\n· Scoping level metallurgical testing was successfully completed on four composite samples made up of 18 core samples totaling 85.7kg\n· Samples were derived from 18 separate diamond drill holes representing a cross section of the ore types found at KB and across Gold Zones 1 and 2 and the Copper Zone\n \nGold Oxide Ore\n· Results of Bottle Roll and Column Leach testwork, which was carried out on 68 half-core samples with a combined weight of 207.3kg, indicate gold oxide resources at KB are amenable to heap leach gold extraction\n· As part of Bottle Roll testwork, eight composites were crushed to -20mm and -12.5mm crush sizes an...