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Nord Precious Metals Update on Progress on Recovery Permits and Future Tailings Operations at Castle Mine
(TheNewswire) August 21, 2024 – TheNewswire - Coquitlam, BC - Nord Precious ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Nord Precious Metals Update on Progress on Recovery Permits and Future Tailings Operations at Castle Mine\n\n\n (TheNewswire)\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n August 21, 2024 –\n \n\n TheNewswire -\n \n\n Coquitlam, BC - Nord Precious Metals Mining\nInc.,\n \n\n (TSXV: NTH) (OTCQB: CCWOF) (Frankfurt:\n4T9B) (the \"Company\" or \"Nord” or “Nord Precious\nMetals”), is progressing with the evaluation of high-grade tailings\nin Miller Creek, which were produced by the processing of the Castle\nMine ore over 80 years ago. The tailings were deposited in the creek\nas was the norm at that time for tailings deposition.\n \n\n\n\n Highlights on Miller Creek\nTailings:\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Engaged with a backfill contractor to place the\ntailings underground at the Castle Mine starting with the first\nlevel.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Pricing was discussed with cemented backfill, as is the\nnorm for tailings disposition in the first level mined-out\nstopes.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n This process will stabilize the crown pillars and the\nhistoric openings to surface. This was one of the key requirements for\na closure plan approval prior to granting a permit for the extraction\nof mineralized material from underground.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n As the Company has already rehabilitated much of the\nfirst level of the Castle Mine and converted it from track mining to\ntrackless, it was found that there was a significant amount of broken\nmineralized material similar to what is on the waste piles outside the\nmine. A sample of the outside waste pile material was reprocessed at\nthe high-grade gravity plant at Temiskaming Testing Labs in Cobalt,\nOntario from which a 1,000-ounce silver bar was poured and also a\nhigh-grade gravity concentrate was produced and further processed at\nSGS in Lakefield, Ontario to produce cobalt sulfate for the Asian EV\nmarket using the Re-2Ox process.\n \n\n\n\n Nord contemplates using a remote-controlled scoop tram\nto recover the broken mineralized material from the open stopes before\nback-filling with reprocessed tailings from Miller Creek. The Company\nhas purchased a gravity plant for the reprocessing with all the pumps\nand generators. The Company envisions this as a seasonal reprocessing\nprogram.\n \n\n\n\n Nord will review the costing it has received from the\nback-fill contractor as...