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Searchlight Receives Metallurgical Test Results for Kulyk Rare Earths Sample
The Kulyk Lake rock sample contained 33.6%TREO and 7.3% CREO. Results show the sample is ame...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Searchlight Receives Metallurgical Test Results for Kulyk Rare Earths SampleThe Kulyk Lake rock sample contained 33.6%TREO and 7.3% CREO.Results show the sample is amenable to concentration by heavy liquid, electrostatic, magnetic separation, and flotation methods.The coarse fraction size can be concentrated to +60% TREO.The fine fraction size can be concentrated to 49.8-52.8% TREO.VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 2, 2023 / Searchlight Resources Inc. (\"Searchlight\" or the \"Company\") (TSXV:SCLT)(OTCQB:SCLTF) is pleased to announce that the Company has received the final report from the Saskatchewan Research Council (\"SRC\") on the preliminary beneficiation tests on a monazite-bearing rock sample from the Fanta Showing at Kulyk Lake, Saskatchewan.In the fall of 2022, Searchlight contracted the SRC to perform initial metallurgical bench-scale tests on a monazite-bearing rock sample from the Fanta Showing on the Kulyk Lake Critical Elements project. The objective was to determine if the sample could be concentrated to a commercial monazite concentrate.The final report from SRC includes the following details on the Kulyk Lake sample:It contained 33.6% TREO and 7.3% CREO.The mineral composition is 19.7% Monazite, 6.4% Apatite, 5.8% Ilmenite, and 68.1% other silicate minerals.It is amenable to concentration by heavy liquid, electrostatic, magnetic separation, and flotation methods.The coarse fraction size (greater than 0.053 mm) can be concentrated to +60% TREO by one or a combination of the beneficiation methods.Flotation of the fine size fraction (less than 0.053 mm) can be concentrated to 49.8-52.8% TREO with three cleaner stages of flotation.Recovery factors of 98% of the TREO and CREO were obtained from the coarse fraction sample, as well as up to 89% TREO and CREO from the fine fraction.Notes on TREO and CREOTREO = Total Rare Earth Oxides = Ce2O3+Dy2O3+Er2O3+Eu2O3+Gd2O3+Ho2O3+La2O3+Nd2O3+Pr6O11+Sm2O3+Tb4O7+Yb2O3CREO = Critical Rare Earth Oxides = Dy2O3+Nd2O3+Pr6O11+Tb4O7\"Searchlight is pleased with these excellent results confirming the monazite from the Fanta showing can concentrated to a commercial monazite concentrate,\" stated Stephen Wallace, Searchlight's CEO. \"In addition, this allows the company to know based on an economical test that the monazite at Fanta is viable and encourages us to push forward to drilling....