Excellent news re. the outcome of the ore sorter commissioning...

Excellent news re. the outcome of the ore sorter commissioning and testing program resulting in the beneficiation of a 30% TREO xenotime concentrate. This is some 50% higher than the 20% concentrate being produced before the ore sorter was added to the beneficiation circuit.

No doubt itwill have a major impact of the economics of the commercial beneficiation FS.

Also interesting to read the following statement from LYC in their 22/7/21 release on the government grant of $14.8m for Kalgoorlie RE processing facility;“In keeping with our commitment to the efficient use of industry capital, this process has been designed to treat our own Mt Weld concentrate and concentrate from 3rd party feedstock as other projects come on line in the future,” Ms Lacaze added.

And the NTU statement from 10/2/2021; “Northern Minerals has identified a market opportunity to pursue the development of a full-scale production operation with processing via a standalone commercial-scale beneficiation plant to produce a saleable heavy rare earth xenotime concentrate product. Several facilities outside of China have been identified with capability and capacity to process the heavy rare earth xenotime concentrate produced at Browns Range.”

Brown’s Range xenotime and Mt Weld monazite are both phosphate minerals and therefore the concentrates should be amenable to processing in a common facility.

A marriage of convenience in the offing perhaps? Maybe this would discourage LYC hardons from wasting their time trying to continually bag NTU on these threads… we live in hope!