Noram Ventures and Alba Minerals Complete Process Bench Test Report for Clayton Valley Project

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[{"type":"text","content":"Vancouver, British Columbia (FSCwire) - Noram Ventures Inc. (TSX-Venture: NRM / Frankfurt: N7R / OTCBB: NRVTF (“Noram” or the “Company”) and Alba Minerals Ltd. (“Alba”) (TSX-V: AA.V: AXVEF:US Frankfurt: A117RU) are pleased to announced that Membrane Development Specialists (“MDS”) and Au Tec Innovative Extraction Solutions (“AuTec”) have completed a process bench test report, which concludes that an estimated a total Li recovery after first and second leach steps of 96.25%. Lithium deposits in Clayton Valley Clays has been known for decades and, in fact, the former bureau of mines indicated back in 1970’s that acid digestion of lithium clays was technically feasible, but not cost effective due to the water and acid losses using conventional leaching processes available at the time. Fast forward 40 years and with the use of new, but proven, membrane technologies that use large leach supernatant volumes at low pH containing dilute (100-200 ppm) of lithium extracted from clays as feed for series of membrane processes that purifies and concentrates these dilute lithium solutions into purified concentrated lithium streams for extraction using conventional technologies. MDS concluded the mining of lithium clays we believe is now economically feasible using MDS Acid Membranes and Systems to purify and concentrate lithium and simultaneously recover water and acid for reuse in the extraction process. Given the volumes of water and acid needed for the processing of lithium clay, being able to recover both for reuse in the process makes the process is a huge benefit which makes the digestion of lithium cost effective and attractive.  In addition, because the Clayton Valley of Nevada has extremely inexpensive power $0.04 kW, and power is approximately 50% of the operating cost for membrane plants needed for this process, the cost of power translates into a low operating cost per tonne of lithium carbonate. Autec’s summary of results on July 24, 2017, in the report “Noram Bench Test V-3 May-June 17 2017_2”, MDS reported a Li concentration in the supernatant solution, generated with the optimized leach procedure, of 150 ppm which is equivalent to 80% of the initial Li reporting to the leach solution. A second leach step was performed on a subsample of the leached solids by combining 100 g of the moist leached solids (6.5% liquid content)...

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