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Fast leaching and high gold recoveries in Marmota testing

COMBINED gravity recoverable gold and cyanide leaching phase two tests of Marmota’s Aurora Tank core have returned overall gold recoveries of 95.9% and 92.7% on the supergene and transitional samples respectively.

Scanning electron microscope images of supergene (left) and transitional gold grains.

Scanning electron microscope images of supergene (left) and transitional gold grains.

The testing also found leaching was predominately complete by the six to 24-hour mark, indicating fast leach kinetics. Concentrates show gold particles are generally fine grained in the five micron...

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