northern minerals quarterly

Northern Minerals (former Northern Uranium, change of name ahead) issued a noteworthy Quarterly Report:

John Goulevitch on board!

Huge extension of mineralisation; the soil sampling contours (100ppm and 200ppm lines) only give an indication of a hidden deposit. These low numbers are not grades of the ore!!! The ore will have grades between 1 and 10% TREO may be more.

As expected upgrading of the ore by flotation is very successful:

Samples from outcrops of some kg have been ground to a grainsize distribution of 80% passing 0,106 mm sieve and the whole feed ore has been enriched by flotation to 32,8%TREO (including 5,10% Y2O3) resembling a recovery rate of 89,5%!
In a second step said concentrate has been upgraded to 50,9% TREO (including 11,18% Y2O3)resembling a final recovery rate of 93,8%!

The host rock is a sandstone enriched in feldspar which is expected favourable for disintegration processes (energy saving).

IMHO a noteworthy world scale deposit for hREE is detected and will be developed on the background of well understood processing steps. Because of the phosphate nature of the anion (Xenotime) NTU would be the ideal partner for Arafura Resources to produce PhosAcid as byproduct.

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RMINCONSULT

Almost no waste into tailings