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Orex Awards a Contract for Metallurgical Testing on the Sandra Escobar Silver Project in Durango, Mexico
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nOrex Awards a Contract for Metallurgical Testing on the Sandra Escobar Silver Project in Durango, Mexico\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrex Awards a Contract for Metallurgical Testing on the Sandra Escobar Silver Project in Durango, Mexico\nCanada NewsWire\nVANCOUVER, June 27, 2016\n\n\n\nVANCOUVER, June 27, 2016 /CNW/ - Orex Minerals Inc. – (TSX-V: REX) (\"Orex\"), is pleased to announce that the analytical firm SGS Minerals Services has been awarded a contract to conduct the initial metallurgical testing on the Sandra Escobar Project in Durango, Mexico. The Sandra Escobar Project is being advanced by Orex under an option agreement with Canasil Resources Inc. – (TSX.V: CLZ) (\"Canasil\"). \n\nA flat-lying unit of strataform, disseminated silver mineralization is located in the southeastern region of the Sandra Escobar project. Preliminary mineralogy testing has identified Native Silver (Ag) as the primary silver mineral, along with the silver halides, Cerargyrite (AgCl) and Bromargyrite (AgBr), hosted within a permeable, crystal lithic tuff. \n\nBottle roll leach test will be performed on five composite samples of varying head grades and at three separate crushing particle sizes. The samples will cover the grade ranges of approximately 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 g/t silver and particle sizes of approximately 80% less than 75, 106 and 150 microns. Sample readings will be taken at 4, 8, 12, 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours to determine leach time performance.\n\nOrex's President, Gary Cope says, \"A first metallurgical test is a major step in an exploration project. We look forward to announcing the results of this metallurgical testing, as well as the results of the initial resource estimation.\" \n\nSGS Minerals Services is a certified international analytical services company with over 50 years of metallurgical testing experience. SGS has had a metallurgical laboratory in the city of Durango, Mexico, since 2006.\n\nSandra Escobar Silver-Gold Project, Durango, Mexico\n\nSandra Escobar is situated north of the town of Tepehuanes, D...