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Scandium Canada completes a 500kg metallurgical pilot test for its Crater Lake scandium project
(TheNewswire) Highlights: Achieves 99.5% Purity Scandium Oxide 99.2...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Scandium Canada completes a 500kg metallurgical pilot test for its Crater Lake scandium project\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Highlights:\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Achieves 99.5% Purity Scandium Oxide\n \n\n\n\n\n\n 99.2% Purity Rare Earths\nOxide\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Overall Sc recovery from ore to final\nproduct to a very good 77.3%\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Increases annual output to 91 tpy\nscandium oxide\n \n\n\n\n\n\n MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC –\n \n\n TheNewswire -\n \n\n May 13, 2025 – Scandium\nCanada Ltd. (the “Company” or \"Scandium Canada\") (TSX\nVENTURE: SCD) is pleased to confirm that it has completed a campaign\nfor the optimization of its mineral processing and hydrometallurgical\nflowsheet for scandium and rare earths recovery from the Crater Lake\nproject at SGS Canada Inc. in Lakefield, Ontario. The results of these\ntests will be used to prepare a Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) for the\nCrater Lake Project located in northeastern Québec.\n \n\n\n\n The current process leads to a 99.5% purity for the\nscandium oxide precipitate, which is the primary commercial product\nfrom the Crater Lake Project, and to a 99.2% purity for the rare earth\noxides, which are the secondary output from the Crater Lake Project.\nThis is the first instance of achieving reportable purity levels of\nthe oxides from the Company’s flowsheet. The purity of scandium\noxide is well within acceptable limits for its use in\nAluminum-Scandium alloys, which Scandium Canada targets as the main\nend-use of scandium oxide.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Dr. Peter Kondos, Ph.D.,\nFAusIMM, Scandium Canada’s Technical Advisor mentioned; “The\nhydrometallurgical optimization has performed exceptionally well, with\na high scandium recovery of 93.3%, bringing the overall Scandium\nrecovery from ore to final product to 77.3%, which is a remarkable\nperformance in this field.”\n \n\n\n\n This optimization campaign used a 500 kg ore sample\nfrom a 15-ton bulk sample extracted from Crater Lake. A press release\non February 29, 2024 (\n \n\n\n\n Scandium Canada Updates\non the Optimization of its Mineral Processing\nFlowsheet\n \n\n\n\n ) announced an interim\nprogress report. The data reported previously about mineral processing\nis now integrated into the overall f...