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Apogee Silver Ltd. (TSXV:APE) announced a summary of the results from a 128 tonne bulk sample taken from stockpiled material at the Company’s Pulacayo development project and processed at a concentrator in Potosi in early September 2012.
As quoted in the press release:
These bulk test results indicate a total silver recovery of 86.08% in lead and zinc concentrates and produced marketable lead and zinc concentrates with high silver grades, as set out in Table 1 below.
Apogee Silver CEO Neil Ringdahl said:
An important milestone has been achieved by testing material at two different commercial scale plants, being the FEDECOMIN and the Tatasi concentrators. We have identified a process that produces excellent commercial grade concentrates and high recoveries. This test work will make an important contribution to the development of our ongoing feasibility study and will allow the Company to complete the design for a standalone mill flow sheet with a high level of confidence as to how it will perform with our ore. We are very encouraged that these results were achieved in an existing mill that was not designed specifically for Pulacayo mineralization. We anticipate there is excellent potential to improve the metallurgical performance, as we continue optimizing the process.
Click here to read the Apogee Silver (TSXV:APE) press release