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Talon Metals: Metallurgical Results Confirm Optionality of Using Nickel Concentrates from Tamarack for the Electric Vehicle or Stainless Steel Markets
Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands--(Newsfile Corp. - August 31, 2020) - Talon Metals ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Talon Metals: Metallurgical Results Confirm Optionality of Using Nickel Concentrates from Tamarack for the Electric Vehicle or Stainless Steel MarketsRoad Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands--(Newsfile Corp. - August 31, 2020) - Talon Metals Corp. (TSX: TLO) (\"Talon\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to provide an update on the Tamarack Nickel-Copper-Cobalt project (\"Tamarack Project\"), located in Minnesota, USA. The Tamarack Project comprises the Tamarack North Project and the Tamarack South Project. HighlightsFlotation optimization was conducted on a composite grading 1.61% Ni and 0.96% Cu. The composite was compiled from different geo-metallurgical domains and grade distributions within these domains based on the entire inferred and indicated mineral resource at the Tamarack Project.The Company recently completed a Locked Cycle Flotation Test (\"LCT\") producing a nickel concentrate grading 10.8% Ni and 1.22% Cu and a copper concentrate grading 29.9% Cu and 1.13% Ni. These concentrate grades will be attractive for both pyrometallurgical processing in Ni and Cu smelters (primarily for the stainless steel market), and for hydrometallurgical treatment of the Ni concentrates for producing a nickel sulphate (primarily for batteries in electric vehicles). The concentrates from the LCT have been sent to the hydrometallurgical group at SGS Lakefield for hydrometallurgical process development, with the end goal of establishing an integrated battery nickel sulphate complex at Tamarack. Such a complex is expected to be strategic to US and European electric vehicle manufacturers. \"The robustness of the simplified flowsheet has now been confirmed, and the process has proven to be capable of treating the entire indicated and inferred resource at the Tamarack Project with excellent results. The hydrometallurgical flowsheet development with the goal of producing nickel sulphates in the United States has commenced and is producing very encouraging results,\" said Oliver Peters, Talon Consulting Metallurgist.\"Global nickel sulphide concentrate production is expected to continue its downward trend: High-grade nickel-copper discoveries have all but dried up while existing nickel sulphide mines continue to be depleted. At the same time, smelting and refining facilities require a baseline throughput to cover fixed costs. We therefore expect c...