Scottie Resources Corp. (TSX-V:SCOT) has announced positive preliminary test results from drill core samples taken from the Blueberry Zone at its 100%-owned Scottie Gold Mine Project in British Columbia.
The company said a composite sample was created from coarse reject material from 2022 drill core samples, with the sample selection based on geological considerations, distribution throughout the mineralized structure, and geochemical and mineralogical data to best represent a conceptual resource.
Head grade samples taken from the composite sample revealed the average gold grade was in strong agreement with the calculated grade based on a weighted average of the combined drill intercepts, 11.8 grams per ton (g/t) versus 11.9 g/t respectively. The average silver grades varied slightly with respective values of 9.6 g/t and 6.5 g/t, the company said.
"One of the primary roles of junior explorers is to reduce risk by answering unresolved questions,” Scottie’s president and CEO Brad Rourke explained.
“These promising initial metallurgical results illustrate strong gold recoveries using multiple extraction techniques and by doing so substantially de-risk the project. With so many advantages to the deposit: high-grade, near surface, on a road, adjacent to high-voltage power – these results confirming the deposit's metallurgy adds yet another positive element."
The company said the recovery processes used to test the samples were selected based on technology and flowsheets of nearby operating mills.
Testwork focused on recovery processes such as gravity recoverable gold (GRG), rougher flotation (RF), and cyanide leaching (CN). Grind sizes tested were between p80s (80% passing size) of 103 micrometers (μm) and 25 μm. It said the results were not fully optimized during this preliminary testing program, but to serve as a baseline from which to evaluate the processing of ore from the Blueberry Deposit.
Scottie Resources owns a 100% interest in the Scottie Gold Mine Property which includes the Blueberry Zone and the high-grade, past-producing Scottie Gold Mine.
The company also owns 100% interest in the Georgia Project which contains the high-grade past-producing Georgia River Mine, as well as the Cambria Project properties and the Sulu property.
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