{"id":1132095,"date":"2019-08-12T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=999127"},"modified":"2019-08-12T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:43:32","slug":"spanish-mountain-pleases-with-excellent-met-test-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1132095","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Mountain pleases with excellent met test results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vancouver-based\u00a0Spanish Mountain Gold\u00a0has the results of the latest metallurgical tests for its Spanish Mountain project 70 km northeast of Williams Lake. The results were in line with earlier test results.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tests were performed on the power requirements for crushing and grinding, flotation parameters and cyanidation of the flotation concentrate.<\/p>\n<p>The key findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The average crusher work index for all samples was 9.5 kWh\/t and the average ball mill work index was 12.2 kWh\/t to reach a coarse grind of 180 microns. This indicates a low power requirement for crushing and grinding.<\/li>\n<li>The mill flowsheet has been simplified to include conventional bulk flotation to produce a gold-bearing concentrate representing about 3.5% of the mill feed weight. The concentrate will be reground before carbon-in-leach cyanidation, and the floatation cleaner tails will be scavenged in a gravity circuit.<\/li>\n<li>Overall gold recovery in recent testing was up marginally at 91%, compared to 92% in the 2017 preliminary economic assessment.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, cyanide consumption is lower than any previous test.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Spanish Mountain gold project has a measured and indicated resource of 270.1 million tonnes grading 0.40 g\/t gold (3.5 million contained oz.) and 0.67 g\/t silver (5.8 million contained oz.) The inferred resource is about 181.4 million tonnes at 0.31 g\/t gold (1.8 million contained oz.) and 0.65 g\/t silver (3.8 million contained oz.)<\/p>\n<p><em>(This article first appeared in the&nbsp;<\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianminingjournal.com\/\" ><em>Canadian Mining Journal<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Mountain gold project has a measured and indicated resource of 270.1 million tonnes grading 0.40 g\/t gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1132095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132096,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132095\/revisions\/1132096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1132095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1132095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1132095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}