Search Minerals Successfully Scales Up Proprietary Metallurgical Process

Search Minerals Inc. (TSXV:SMY) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Alterra Resources Inc., announced the conclusion of scale-up testing of the Search Minerals Direct Extraction Process on the Foxtrot resource.

As quoted in the press release:

A channel sample of Foxtrot resource was crushed to 6 mesh (~3.45 mm) size and treated in a scaled up test of Search’s Metallurgical Process for rare earth recovery (Jul 23, 2014 Search Minerals Announces Metallurgical Breakthrough for Rare Earth Recovery)

The channel sample contained 1.12% Total Rare Earth Oxide (TREO) including 0.183% Nd₂O₃, 0.0262% Dy₂O₃, and 0.151% Y₂O₃.

Jim Clucas, interim president and CEO of Search, stated:

These metallurgy results from the Foxtrot resource confirm that the crucial metallurgical process has been successfully simplified. This success is due to the financial support of  ACOA and RDC,  the technical support of SGS and the leadership and conceptual ideas of Dr. David Dreisinger.  The new process is simple and cost effective, it should lead to the  lower capital and operating costs necessary to develop our REE resources.

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