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West Red Lake Gold: "The Gold Traps We Discovered in The Madsen Mill Are Fixable"
(TheNewswire) May 6, 2024 – TheNewswire – Global Stocks News – In a pres...
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[{"type":"text","content":"West Red Lake Gold: \"The Gold Traps We Discovered in The Madsen Mill Are Fixable\"\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 May 6, 2024 – TheNewswire – Global Stocks News – In a press\nrelease dated May 2, 2024, West Red Lake Gold Mines (TSXV:WRLG)\n(OTC:WRLGF) revealed\n \n that, during a ball mill cleanup,\nit\n \n \n \n \n recovered 415 troy\nounces of gold worth about $750,000\n \n \n \n \n .\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Click Image To View Full Size\n \n \n \n \n \n Above photograph of\nsample concentrate material with coarse visible gold collected as part\nof the cleanup program.\n \n \n \n \n \n It is anticipated that WRLG may recover 2,500 oz of\ngold from the clean up, worth a total of USD $5.75 million @$2,300\ngold.\n \n \n \n \n The May 2, 2024 PR supports WRLG’s mine-restart\nthesis:\n \n \n the previous operator\nmade significant mistakes building the mine and mill, which are\nfixable.\n \n \n \n \n “It was known that the previous operator had\n \n \n reconciliation\nissues\n \n \n between the mined ore and the milled ore\nat the Madsen Mine,” states WRLG.\n \n \n \n \n “Mining reconciliation\n \n \n is a crucial process that connects the theoretical aspects\nof mining planning with the actual on-ground operations,”\n \n \n .\n \n \n \n \n “Mills are mechanical entities,” Maurice Mostert,\nWRLG VP of Technical Services told Guy Bennett, the CEO of Global\nStocks News. “They crush and grind rocks, mix in reagents, and then\nextract the targeted metal utilizing chemical and physical\nprocesses.”\n \n \n \n \n “The goal is for every grain of rock that enters the\nmill to come out the other side, either as gold or waste,” Mostert\ncontinued. “Initially, some gold will get trapped in a mill’s\nnooks and crannies. Once these are filled, or ‘packed’ with rock,\nthe process becomes more efficient, more gold makes it out the\nbusiness end of the mill.”\n \n \n \n \n An experienced operator understands how to smooth out\nand minimize these traps so that gold losses are minimal.\n \n \n \n \n “Gold losses can happen in all kinds of ways,”\nconfirmed Mostert. “From wind blowing ore dust off ...