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First Energy Metals Starts Metallurgical Testwork for Bulk Sample From Scramble Mine Gold Property
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 14, 2020 /CNW/ - First Energy Metals Ltd. (CSE: FE) ("First Energy" or the "Company) is pleased to announce that it has submitted to the lab
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 14, 2020 /CNW/ - First Energy Metals Ltd. (CSE: FE) (\"First Energy\" or the \"Company) is pleased to announce that it has submitted to the laboratories, a bulk sample collected from its Scramble Mine gold property located in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. Pleson Geoscience was contracted to collect approximately 100-kilogram representative sample of mineralized material from the Property. The sample was gathered from the main quartz vein as well as the dump material at the mine site. The Company has contracted Bureau Veritas Minerals (BVM) in Vancouver to conduct the metallurgical testwork as per its proposal using the following procedures. As the main interest values for this project, the gold and silver analyses will be done by standard fire assay procedures. Sulphur will be analyzed by Leco. Other metals by ICP following a full acid digestion. QEMSCAN/MLA mineralogy analysis will be done on test sample to identify and quantify the mineralogical characteristics of the test sample. Three process options including gravity, flotation and cyanidation will be evaluated to investigate the sample's amenability to each process option. Each process option will be tested at a target grind P80 75 μm to investigate the baseline response. Prior to metallurgical testing, one test grind using a laboratory stainless steel rod mill will be performed to determine the time required to grind the sample to P80 75 μm. The gravity separation will be carried out in two stages. Rougher gravity separation will be performed using a Knelson or a Falcon Gravity Centrifugal Concentrator. The flotation test will be conducted on P80 75 μm ground whole-sample in a Denver D12 laboratory flotation machine using standard gold/silver and sulfide flotation reagents. As another alternative process to gravity separation and flotation, bottle roll cyanide leaching will be carried out on the test sample to evaluate the sample's amenability to cyanidation process. The bulk sampling work is a follow up of grab sampling results with average of 29.34 grams per tonne (1.03 ounces per tonne) in ten grab samples (see Company's news release dated September 03, 2020). The metallurgical testwork results will be available in approximately six week's time. Afzaal Pirzada, P.Geo., Geological Consultant of the Company, and a \"Qualified Person\" for the purpose...