South Africa Accepts KWG Patent Application

KWG Resources (CSE: KWG.A) (CSE: KWG) (OTC: KWGBF) (FSE: KW61) (“KWG”) received notification that its application to patent the direct reduction method invention for producing chromium iron alloys directly from chromite ore was accepted by the Registrar for the South African Patent Office on January 12, 2018. Expected date of publication in the Patent Journal is February 28^th, 2018.
The results of tests undertaken utilizing the method, by Dawei Yu and Dogan Paktunc of Natural Resources Canada’s CanmetMINING, were published by Metals, An Open Access Metallurgy Journal of MDPI AG, on January 18^th, 2018. The paper reported, in part:

“Although significant research efforts have been made on the carbothermic solid reduction of chromite on the aspect of improving reduction kinetics, little attention was paid to alloy growth during solid reduction.
The significance of alloy growth lies in the fact that it could potentially enable the direct production of pure ferrochrome by separation without the need of a SAF or a melting furnace for separating the alloy from the unwanted gangue/slag.”

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