SilverCrest Announces High Metallurgical Test Recoveries For Las Chispas

SilverCrest Metals (“SilverCrest Metals” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce initial metallurgical test results for the Las Chispas Property (the “Property”) located in Sonora, Mexico.
Results show that the Las Chispas high-grade silver-gold mineralization appears to be amenable to standard cyanidation processing with average recoveries of 98.9% gold and 86.6% silver. Since the Las Chispas deposit geochemistry is similar to the nearby operating Santa Elena Mine (“Santa Elena”), the metallurgical test program was designed using processing criteria similar to that operation which uses a CCD-Merrill Crowe processing facility.
Based on these initial high recovery percentages at Las Chispas, further metallurgical test work is planned for 2018.
N. Eric Fier, CPG, P.Eng, President and CEO, remarked:

“Another milestone has been completed for the Las Chispas Property which continues to show increasing significance as an emerging high-grade silver-gold district.
Historically, there were five mills in the district before 1930, four cyanidation and one flotation, which gave us a good indication that the metallurgy would be amenable to standard processing methods.”

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