TDG Gold Corp. Provides Initial Metallurgical Testing Results Including Recovery Up to 94.8% Gold and 77.2% Silver, Shasta Project, Toodoggone District, B.C.

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[{"type":"text","content":"TDG Gold Corp. Provides Initial Metallurgical Testing Results Including Recovery Up to 94.8% Gold and 77.2% Silver, Shasta Project, Toodoggone District, B.C.WHITE ROCK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / May 2, 2022 / TDG Gold Corp - (TSX-V:TDG) (the \"Company\" or \"TDG\") is pleased to announce preliminary metallurgical results from two composite samples constructed from diamond drillholes SH21-004 and SH21-005 from the 2021 drilling program at its former producing gold-silver Shasta mine, Toodoggone District, B.C.The samples tested responded very well to gold (\"Au\") and silver (\"Ag\") recoveries by conventional flotation, direct cyanidation and a combination of flotation and cyanidation treatments, which is similar to the historical processing flowsheet used at the Baker mill. Some of the gold occurs as coarse nugget grains which are amenable to gravity concentration.Direct cyanidation achieved extraction percentages of 84.7% to 96.4% for Au, and 69.1% to 80.5% for Ag (see Table 1). Flotation testing delivered recoveries to concentrate of 94.3% and 98.0% for Au, and 88.4% and 96.0% for Ag (see Table 2). Flotation concentrate regrinding and cyanidation delivered recoveries of 87.7% to 94.8% for Au, and 64.8% to 77.2% for Ag.Fletcher Morgan, TDG's CEO, commented: \"These initial metallurgical results are absolutely in line with the recoveries indicated in the historical mill records when ore from Shasta was last processed through the Baker mill in 2012. The key difference is that much higher-grade material was processed historically, so it's positive to see good recoveries achieved using conventional processing on the medium and lower-grade gold-silver mineralization that we drilled in 2021. This is an important step forward for TDG in revisioning Shasta as a bulk tonnage opportunity. We expect to continue metallurgical analysis this year to assist our drill targeting and resource definition work at Shasta.\"The samples were labelled as Sample #1 and Sample #2, respectively. Figure 1 below shows the drillhole locations in the deposit.Figure 1. Drillholes SH21-004 and SH21-005 Locations in the Shasta Deposit.Previous OperationOre from the Shasta deposit was intermittently processed at Baker mill between 1989-1991 and 2008-2012 before the mill was put under care and maintenance. The Baker mill was originally designed to process the mill feeds ...

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