Sent an email to John just asking about some updates on Mt. Carbine and schedules here is what I got back. Good thing is we should get an updated slide pack soon and he is presenting on the 27th of this month.
John Bishop reply
"Thank you for your recent support and interest in Icon.
The processing planned for the end of this month which has slipped into July is a test of the efficiency of ore-sorting the reject and waste dumps (plus the ore).
Staying with the dumps, the former is ~4Mt of material that was rejected by the ore-sorters used in the last operation ~25 yrs ago. And the latter is ~12Mt of material that was taken straight from the pit and dumped. Because of the significant advances in ore-sorters, it seems likely that both dumps can be profitably treated and that will be the main aim of these tests. We will not producing a saleable product from these tests however we are looking at producing a low-grade mixed (wolframite+scheelite) concentrate from the dumps and tailings which should be able to come on stream earlier and at less cost than the hard-rock operation which is progressing in parallel.
Im giving a Proactive presentation on 27th July (we will send out a notice) and I will certainly have an updated presentation by then which will spell out the programs for what we are regarding as 3 parallel streams:
The hard-rock operation: drilling > revised resource > upgraded mining/processing model > upgraded financials > prefeasibility study
Re-treating the dumps: ore-sorter testing > treatment options of pre-con
Re-treating tailings to produce a low-grade, mixed concentrate"
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