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South Star Mining Submits Trial Mining Licensing Documents for Pilot Plant Operations
(via TheNewswire) Toronto, ON - TheNewswire - January 13, 20 20 - ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"South Star Mining Submits Trial Mining Licensing Documents for Pilot Plant Operations(via TheNewswire)\n \n \n\n\n \n \nToronto, ON - TheNewswire - January 13, 2020 - South Star Mining Corp. ('South Star' or 'the Company') (TSXV:STS) (OTC:STSBF) is pleased to announce that it has completed and formally submitted the trial mining licensing documents (Guia de Utilizacao - GU) to the National Mining Agency (ANM) for the construction and operations of a 5,000 tonne/year (tpy) pilot plant facility at the Santa Cruz Graphite Project ('the Project'). The goal of the GU and pilot plant operations is to prove the economic and technical viability of the Project at a small scale, while also allowing the Company to produce and qualify large scale samples (1-20t) in the marketplace. \n\n \n \nThe GU will allow the Company to test and optimize the flowsheet, develop the key commercial relationships and optimize the production of products demanded in the marketplace, given the inherent, high-quality nature of the concentrates produced to date. \n\n \n \nRichard Pearce, President and CEO of South Star, commented: \"We have now submitted all the required permitting and licensing documents for the Phase 1 production facilities. We are pleased to have completed another big step forward in our march towards production. The pilot plant operations will provide short-term cash flow from operations and allow us to qualify bulk samples in the marketplace and establish future, firm offtake agreements. We have been working diligently to develop commercial relationships with key players, both in Brazil and internationally, and have received excellent feedback on our sample materials shipped to date. We will monitor closely the permitting and licensing process and will be using the first half of 2020 to get the financing in place to construct and commission the pilot plant facilities. Construction is expected to take approximately 8-10 months. We are so excited to be moving past project development and focusing all our efforts and attention on near-term construction, commissioning and production.\"\n\n \n \nThe 5,000 tpy concentrate pilot plant is Phase 1 of the proposed path to production and includes a small-pit pilot processing plant with filtered tails technology, waste storage facility for co-disposal of wasterock and filtered tails and civil infrastru...