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Happy Creek's Fox Tungsten Returns 70% W03 in Premium Gravity Concentrate
(via Thenewswire.ca) December 11, 2013 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Happy Creek Min...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Happy Creek's Fox Tungsten Returns 70% W03 in Premium Gravity Concentrate(via Thenewswire.ca)\n\n \nDecember 11, 2013 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V:HPY, the \"Company\") announces results from preliminary metallurgical work conducted on its 100% owned Fox tungsten property.\n\n \n \nThe Fox property is located approximately 75 kilometres northeast of 100 Mile House in the south central Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada. Trenching and/or drilling in three areas that span a distance of three kilometres have discovered high tungsten grades over considerable thickness that are at or near surface. Drill highlights from this new discovery include 7.35 metres of 1.22% tungsten (W03), 19.4 metres of 0.82% tungsten, 11.0 metres of 0.80% tungsten, 20.0 metres of 0.63% tungsten, 24.7 metres of 0.68% tungsten and 22.0 metres of 0.76% tungsten at the RC zone. One kilometer to the south at the BN prospect, F12-27 returned three intervals: 4.1 metres of 1.78% tungsten, 14.8 metres of 4.0% tungsten and 24.0 metres of 0.79% tungsten including 5.8 metres of 2.01% tungsten (Refer to Press Release dated November 19, 2012 and September 9, 2013). Looking selectively at very high grades, to date 28 drill intervals have returned a weighted average of 3.0 metres grading 2.33% tungsten.\n\n \n \nDuring 2012, 816 kg of rock was collected from the trenches at the BN, RC and BK zones. The samples were submitted to Met-Solve Laboratories Inc. of Langley, B.C., for initial mineralogy and metallurgical investigation. The composite sample used for the test work graded 0.95% tungsten and 0.26% zinc.\n\n \n \nThe test sample was processed first by removing zinc using flotation, and followed by gravity concentration of tungsten using spirals and tables. The first pass gravity circuit recovered an average 59.3% of the tungsten into a concentrate with 43.3% W03. Importantly, this simple first stage testing does not include the up-grading and recovery benefits of subsequent cleaning, recycling and tungsten flotation that is done in locked cycle testing. The results include a 70% W03 product from the coarse cleaner concentrate that exceeds published commercially viable grades. For reference, 70.0% W03 contains 700 kg W03 per tonne of concentrate and tungsten prices for concentrate are currently around CAN$35.0/kg W03.\n\n \n...