Novo Advances Toward Test Mining at Beatons Creek

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[{"type":"text","content":"Novo Advances Toward Test Mining at Beatons Creek(via Thenewswire.ca)\n\n \nVANCOUVER, BC / TheNewswire / March 16, 2016 - Novo Resources Corp. (\"Novo\" or the \"Company\") (TSX-V: NVO; OTCQX: NSRPF) is pleased to provide an update on activities at its flagship Beatons Creek gold project in Western Australia. With the completion of a recent private placement (please refer to the Company's news release dated March 8, 2016) and gold convertible debenture financing (please refer to the Company's news release dated March 10, 2016), Novo is in a strong position to undertake its planned trial mining program as well as continue to advance studies on a future commercial scale mine. As detailed in numerous news releases issued over the past eighteen months, Beatons Creek is host to sizeable shallow oxide gold resources that the Company plans to exploit in a cost effective free-digging, gravity recovery mine. \n\n\n \nTrial Mining Program\n\n\n \nNovo currently anticipates permitting for trial mining to be completed by mid-April 2016. Upon receipt of mining approvals, the Company plans to commence extraction of 30,000 tonnes of gold-bearing conglomerate from three test pits, each contributing approximately 10,000 tonnes. Processing of this material will be undertaken utilizing rock crushers and the Company's IGR3000 gold recovery plant. \n\n\n \nSince the beginning of 2016, Novo has been commissioning its IGR3000 gold recovery plant at a gravel quarry near Perth (see Figure 1 below). Approximately 80 tonnes of conglomerate from Beatons Creek was shipped to the quarry in early January and crushed using a commercial horizontal impact crusher. Feeding the plant batches of crushed material has tested the IGR3000's operational parameters. Because the IGR3000 was designed for conventional alluvial gold processing, Novo has had to make several modifications so that the plant can process finely crushed Beatons Creek conglomerate material. A feeder conveyor has been added, hoppers redesigned, additional pumps installed and the Falcon feed system re-engineered. The plant's performance now appears well suited for the upcoming test-mining phase (see Figures 2 and 3 below). Novo has determined the IGR3000 operates at a rate of around 15-20 tonnes per hour when treating finely crushed material.\n\n\n \nOver the next few weeks, Novo will focus on metho...

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