JRV have the Chinese in 4 weeks and they have to get the...

JRV have the Chinese in 4 weeks and they have to get the 10-15000 tonne samples done before June. If they succeed it will of global interest and worth megabucks.

Go JRV!

MHO - DYOR


Jervois hopeful for laterite success
Thursday, 22 March 2007
Kate Hayc*ck

ON THE back of nickel's recent record highs, New South Wales-focused junior Jervois Mining announced yesterday that after considering a range of processing options for its nickel project in Young, its major focus would now be proving that chlorine leach processing can be used successfully with the nickel-cobalt laterite ore from the project.


The company said it had carried out test work for nickel and cobalt recovery using three different processes – high pressure acid leach, atmospheric pressure acid leach, and atmospheric chloride leach.

While high pressure acid leach had higher recovery rates of 93% for nickel and 97% for cobalt, compared to rates from 70-92% for nickel and 85-94% for copper with chlorine leach, the company has flagged the former as its preferred method.

Jervois company director and exploration geologist Anthony Jannink told MiningNews.Net that Jervois was focusing on the chloride leach processing for the ore from the 167 million tonne nickel and cobalt laterite resource at Young because it was the most economic.