Premier Announces “Excellent” Recoveries from RHA Tungsten Project

Premier African Minerals Ltd. (LSE:PREM) announced process testwork results, “including WO3 grades and recoveries of the Wolframite concentrates,” for its Zimbabwe-based RHA tungsten project. It also released the plant design.

Highlights include:

• -6mm +1mm Jig cleaner concentrate grading 62.7% WO3
• -1mm Wilfley table concentrate grading at 67% WO3
• Cumulative Wolframite concentrate grades ranging between 62.3% and 63.5% WO3
• Corresponding recoveries ranging between 82.9% and 77.3%
• Simple Flow Sheet with significant potential flexibility to increase concentration grade
• Free of any significant deleterious elements

George Roach, CEO of Premier, commented:

Determination of the concentrate grade and process recovery is a significant milestone in the development of the RHA mine. The fact that these positive results were achieved on a mini pilot scale allows us to finalise the flow sheet and plant design and proceed to order. We are advancing discussions on off-take and marketing agreements. Premier will now update the economic model contained in our conceptual mining study released in September 2013 based on these results and our enhanced resource announced in May 2014.

Click here to read the full Premier African Minerals Ltd. (LSE:PREM) press release.