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Poseidon Nickel (ASX: POS) (“Poseidon”, “the Company”) is pleased to provide its first update on the Black Swan 1.1Mtpa “Fill the Mill” project and the Bankable Feasibility Study process. KEY POINTS Fill the Mill Strategy Restart based on feeding the 1.1Mtpa processing circuit with a combination of feed sources to maximise nickel units produced Growing …
Poseidon Nickel (ASX: POS) (“Poseidon”, “the Company”) is pleased to provide its first update on the Black Swan 1.1Mtpa “Fill the Mill” project and the Bankable Feasibility Study process.
KEY POINTS
Fill the Mill Strategy
- Restart based on feeding the 1.1Mtpa processing circuit with a combination of feed sources to maximise nickel units produced
Growing Mining Inventory to support filling the mill for longer
- New high-grade Golden Swan discovery adds 6,300t contained Ni to Black Swan Resources
- Silver Swan drilling underway, aiming to increase high-grade mining inventory
- Black Swan Disseminated resource drilling underway, aim is to increase quantity of serpentinite ore
Metallurgical test work underway
- Previous test work confirms Silver Swan tailings improves Fe:MgO ratio of concentrate
- Current program designed to determine most suitable blend of feed sources, averagemetallurgical recovery and typical concentrate specifications for marketing purposes
Considerable progress made on Black Swan Restart since the 2018 Black Swan Study
- Work is focused on de-risking the 2018 Black Swan Study by:
- increasing high-grade and low-grade mining inventory to support a longer life project
- developing Golden Swan access drive for the resource drilling program
- improved concentrate marketability
- significant pre-production works already completed including underground escapeway refurbishment/replacement, underground infrastructure refurbishment and concentrator safety upgrade
- process water secured under five-year water access agreement
- negotiating accessing grid power which, if secured, will reduce the July 2021 Scoping Study overall plant operating cost estimate by >10%
Marketing and Project Funding
- The Company continues to engage with parties who have expressed interest in offtake and funding arrangements
Read the full ASX release here.
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