FIRST GOLD EXTRACTION FOR EMA YIELDS 58.16g/t
Highlights:
• An initial hydrometallurgical test conducted on 1kg of the Ema bulk sample, utilising a simple leach process yields 58.16g/t gold, 442.35 g/t silver, 0.22% copper and 103.40 g/t tin
Brazilian gold explorer, BBX Minerals (ASX: BBX or “the Company”) is pleased to announce initial results of preliminary metallurgical testing from the Company’s Ema Project.
The Company is currently focusing its activities on advancing its metallurgical extraction process at the Marcelo da Silva Pinto M.E. facility (Marcelo), using both hydrometallurgical and pyrometallurgical methods. An initial test conducted on the 150kg Ema bulk sample collected over an area of 100m x 40m (see ASX release of June 19) using a two-step hydrometallurgical process yielded two gold/silver-rich buttons also containing copper and tin from the same 1 kg sample (fig 1). The buttons were dissolved and analysed by AAS, yielding a combined gold result of 58.16g/t (see table 1).
BBX Price at posting:
20.0¢ Sentiment: Buy Disclosure: Held
