Vancouver, British Columbia – February 21, 2023 (Investorideas.com Newswire, Mining / Metals / Inexperienced Power Inventory information) Protection Metals Corp. (“Protection Metals” or the “Corporate”) (TSX-V:DEFN / OTCQB:DFMTF/ 35D: FSE) is happy to announce that development of the hydrometallurgical pilot plant has began and commissioning is scheduled to begin in the second one part of March.
Craig Taylor, CEO of Protection Metals, mentioned:
“We’re excited to go into this essential milestone of creating and operating the hydrometallurgical pilot plant, which is scheduled to be commissioned in past due March. Pilot operations will probably be executed in two segments and must be finished by way of the top of April. A a hit pilot plant program will probably be very important for the of entirety of the engineering design and economics of the deliberate pre-feasibility learn about.”
Following the a hit of entirety of laboratory flotation and acid bake assessments from December 2021 so far, Protection Metals is now in a position to construct a hydrometallurgical pilot plant. It is very important be aware that the Unbiased Initial Financial Evaluate1 was once in accordance with a distinct hydrometallurgy flowsheet, the gangue-leach – caustic-crack procedure (see the Corporate’s March 31, 2022 information unlock). Then again, after a large number of laboratory assessments the Corporate determined to pursue piloting of the fewer advanced acid bake procedure, which has, in preliminary test-work, yielded higher restoration charges, is an business same old, and has the potential of progressed economics.
The target of the pilot plant is to show at a bigger scale, and with steady operation, the processing of Wicheeda flotation listen to supply uncommon earths the usage of the acid bake flowsheet, to assist verify the standard of the mission, and to collect information required for the pre-feasibility learn about.
The pilot plant will probably be configured to supply a high-purity uncommon earth precipitate appropriate as feed for a separation plant. Samples created from the pilot plant can be shared with possible end-users for product construction and qualification.
Method
The plant is being constructed at SGS Lakefield, Ontario and can run in two segments for about two weeks. The feed for the plant will general roughly 600 kg of mineral listen that was once generated from a flotation pilot plant operated on a bulk pattern from the Wicheeda deposit.
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The clinical and technical knowledge contained on this information unlock, because it pertains to the Wicheeda Uncommon-Earth Undertaking, has been reviewed and authorized by way of John Goode, P. Eng., a metallurgical guide to the Corporate, and who’s a Certified Individual as outlined by way of Nationwide Device 43-101 and who has supplied the technical knowledge on the subject of metallurgy on this information unlock. Kristopher J. Raffle, P.Geo. (BC), a director of the Corporate, is the Certified Individual as outlined in Nationwide Device 43-101 for the ideas on the subject of assets on this information unlock.
Concerning the Wicheeda REE Assets
Protection Metals 100% owned, 4,262-hectare (~10,532-acre) Wicheeda REE assets is situated roughly 80 km northeast of town of Prince George, British Columbia; inhabitants 77,000. The Wicheeda REE Undertaking is instantly available by way of all-weather gravel roads and is close to infrastructure, together with hydro energy transmission traces and gasoline pipelines. The close by Canadian Nationwide Railway and main highways permit simple get right of entry to to the port amenities at Prince Rupert, the nearest main North American port to Asia.
The 2021 Wicheeda REE Undertaking Initial Financial Evaluate technical file (“PEA”) defined a strong after-tax internet provide price (NPV@8%) of $517 million and an 18% IRR[1]. This PEA pondered an open pit mining operation with a 1.75:1 (waste:mill feed) strip ratio offering a 1.8 Mtpa (“million tonnes according to yr”) mill throughput generating a mean of 25,423 tonnes REO every year over a 16 yr mine lifestyles. A Section 1 preliminary pit strip ratio of 0.63:1 (waste:mill feed) would yield speedy get right of entry to to better grade floor mineralization in yr 1 and payback of $440 million preliminary capital inside of 5 years.
About Protection Metals Corp.
Protection Metals Corp. is a mineral exploration and construction corporate targeted at the acquisition, exploration and construction of mineral deposits containing metals and components often used within the electrical energy markets, protection business, nationwide safety sector and within the manufacturing of inexperienced power applied sciences, akin to, uncommon earths magnets utilized in wind generators and in everlasting magnet motors for electrical automobiles. Protection Metals owns 100% of the Wicheeda Uncommon Earth Component Deposit situated close to Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. Protection Metals Corp. trades in Canada beneath the logo “DEFN” at the TSX Undertaking Alternate, in the USA, beneath “DFMTF” at the OTCQB and in Germany at the Frankfurt Alternate beneath “35D”.
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Todd Hanas, Bluesky Company Communications Ltd.
Vice President, Investor Members of the family
Tel: (778) 994 8072
E mail: todd@blueskycorp.ca
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[1] Unbiased Initial Financial Evaluate for the Wicheeda Uncommon Earth Component Undertaking, British Columbia, Canada, dated January 6, 2022, with an efficient date of November 7, 2021, and ready by way of SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. is filed beneath Protection Metals Corp.’s Issuer Profile on SEDAR (www.sedar.com).
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