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Platina trials to cut scandium costs

Platina Resources will trial vat leaching and high-pressure acid leaching technology at its Owendale scandium project in central New South Wales to try and cut costs and enrich the mines revenue stream.

 Owendale scandium project

Owendale scandium project

As part of the vat leaching trial Core Metallurgy will apply small-scale vat leach technology normally used for nickel laterite ores to Platina's scandium, to see if a smaller, lower cost method would...

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