Tasman Concludes Drill Program at Norra Karr Project

Tasman Metals Ltd. (TSXV:TSM) announced the conclusion of a drill program to collect a metallurgical sample at its 100-percent-owned Norra Karr heavy rare earths project in Sweden.

The company also provided guidance on the completion of the Norra Karr preliminary feasibility study (PFS), with only financial modeling and final validation to be completed for the study. Release of the results of the PFS is anticipated for January 2015.

As quoted in the press release:

The recent diamond drill program has delivered approximately 8 tonnes of large diameter core that will be used for additional metallurgical test work during 2015. The cost of this drill program was borne by the EURARE project, of which Tasman is a research partner.

An array of shallow holes each 83.7mm in diameter and up to 12m in length was drilled across an area approximately 250m x 550m. The Norra Karr REE deposit begins at surface with a width of 350m, a length of 800m lying typically beneath less than 1 metre of soil cover, making representative sample collection by such drilling both simple and cost effective.

Mark Saxon, Tasman’s president and CEO, stated,

The collection of this large metallurgical sample places Tasman in a good position for the ongoing optimization of our process flowsheet during 2015. We certainly appreciate the funding contribution of the European Commission via the EURARE project for this work, and their on-going interest in development of a European REE supply chain.

Click here for the Tasman Metals Ltd. (TSXV:TSM) press release,