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Fjordland Reports Promising Graphite Metallurgical Results for the Renzy Project
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 18, 2023) - Fjordland Exploration Inc. (TSXV...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Fjordland Reports Promising Graphite Metallurgical Results for the Renzy ProjectVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - May 18, 2023) - Fjordland Exploration Inc. (TSXV: FEX) (the \"Company\") is pleased to announce that it has received promising results from a scoping level metallurgical evaluation of the graphite potential at its Renzy Project located northwest of Maniwaki Quebec.In early 2023, Fjordland engaged SGS Minerals Lakefield to test a representative graphite sample on drill core derived from its 2022 drill program. The primary objectives of the testing were to develop a preliminary understanding of the metallurgical response of the mineralization and to characterize the graphite concentrate in terms of flake size distribution and total carbon grade of different size fractions. After the third floatation test (F3), the 6th cleaner concentrate grade was 95.6% C(t) with a total carbon recovery of 94.2%. This high concentrate grade was achieved with polishing only, which suggests that the impurities are attached to the surface of the flakes rather intercalated. The flake size distributions of the sample classify the product as relatively coarse with 55% of the concentrate mass reporting to the +100 mesh size fractions. Only 5.1% of the total concentrate mass reported to the very small flake sizes of minus 325 mesh.James Tuer, Fjordland's President commented, \"I'm very encouraged by this early metallurgical testing on the graphite intercepts from our last drill program at Renzy. In order to decide whether further graphite work was warranted, we wanted to make sure that there was good potential for generating a high-grade concentrate. This now appears to be the case and we are looking at expanding the program along the 8km long geophysical signature that's coincident with the graphitic drill intercepts.\" The final 2 holes of the 2022 Renzy drill program tested portions of a long surface anomaly referred to as the \"S-Conductor\" located 6km south-east of the old Renzy mine. The anomaly coincides with a wide zone of graphite mineralization tested by drill holes RZ-22-06 and RZ-22-07 that intersected 34m and 55m core lengths and averaged 0.9% and 0.7% carbon, respectively. Higher grades occurred within the intercepts and the head grade for the metallurgical test measured 1.57% total carbon. Table 1 : Size x Size Ass...