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African Eagle is a nickel exploration and development company listed on the London AIM (AFE) and Johannesburg AltX (AEA) stock exchanges.
The Company is currently conducting a Bankable Feasibility Study on its flagship asset, the Dutwa Project in Tanzania.
Most recently the Board and management was strengthened for the Company's development and production phase.
African Eagle Resources chooses SGS Metallurgy for pilot testing of Dutwa nickel project
African Eagle Resources (LON:AFE) has chosen the experienced SGS Metallurgy to carry out the pilot testing programme for its flagship Dutwa nickel project in Tanzania.
The work will finalise the atmospheric tank leach flowsheet for the project and will begin at SGS's facilities in Western Australia in the second quarter of this year.
It forms an essential part of the bankable feasibility study, which is due to be finished at around the end of 2012.
Last week, African Eagle announced that it had selected the atmospheric tank leaching as the metallurgical process method for recovering ores at Dutwa.
The firm had decided against the heap leaching process which had also been considered.
It has defined a preliminary process flowsheet for the Dutwa plant but to predict the full plant performance, a series of lab tests will begin in the second quarter.
The pilot plant will treat ore samples representative of the planned mining schedule at the project and the samples will be obtained from an upcoming large-core drilling programme.
SGS Metallurgy has completed a number of hydrometallurgical piloting campaigns over the past twelve years, including nickel laterite projects, which included similar atmospheric tank leaching plants.



















