throwing ya toys out of the cot, page-3

On that note I thought I would touch on this from the quarterly

Crushing of native copper ore through the Company’s mobile crushing circuit generates numerous products suitable for sale
During the period, the Company test-crushed over 12,000 tonnes of native copper ore, producing the following products suitable for sale;
 Scalped +40mm native copper metal concentrate (95% Cu)
 Scalped +40mm native copper metal concentrate (80% Cu)
 Scalped +100mm native copper metal concentrate (75% Cu)
 Crushed -40mm +10mm native copper ore (grade ranges from 5-15% Cu)
 Crushed -40mm +fines native copper ore (grade ranges from 5-15% Cu)

The Company will soon commence crushing through the main crushing circuit to scalp off the oversize +40mm native copper.

Because the mobile crusher doesn't actually benificate the ore only crushes and screens it using 40 mm screens for the bottom two products to be around 10% copper and using the methodology that 77% of that is native copper and 25% of that is greater than 25% meant that the feed was around 11.925% Cu for a total of 2 629 tonne of copper containing 231 tonne of nuggets over 40 mm which so about right considering they said 170 tonne went to china and a similar consignment was going to Korea at a diluted grade.

And when that bad boy of an ore sort at 200 tph processes the 12 000 tonne of under 40 mm that's when some serious amounts of native copper starts to get generated.

"Figure 13: Close up of above crushed (-40mm) native copper ore stockpiles - ready for upgrading to a premium grade concentrate through the Company’s new ore sorter to be supplied from Hamburg Germany. The above image shows coarse native copper nuggets, coarse and fine native copper in rock matrix, chalcocite, cuprite and various secondary copper species, visually estimated at 26% Cu in the above image. "


Ore grades 400% higher than estimated after results of large single-batch, ore-sorter trial

The Company recently processed ~5,000 tonnes of low-grade native copper/chalcocite ore (<0.5% Cu) through the primary crushing circuit, to investigate the impact on mineralogical characteristics at various size fractions.
Approximately 1000 tonnes of this ore was processed continuously through the Company’s ore-sorter and produced ~26 tonnes of copper concentrate product averaging ~77% Cu, and 974 tonnes of copper-rich “waste” averaging ~0.5% Cu, that was sent back to the stockpiles for later processing through the main process plant.