Minotaur Exploration (ASX: MEP) announced today that it has signed a binding Heads of Agreement with Andromeda Metals (ASX: ADN), according to which the latter may earn up to 75 per cent interest in Minotaur’s kaolin-halloysite deposits in South Australia through the expenditure of $6 million over a period of up to 5 years. <\/p>\n
According to Minotaur, the assets comprise three tenements containing several kaolin-halloysite deposits 130 kilometres east of Streaky Bay plus the Camel Lake tenement to the northwest where near-pure halloysite occurrences have been recorded.<\/p>\n
The Norwood-based company said in a press release that on its kaolin deposits, particularly on the Carey’s Well, bulk sampling and pilot plant testwork produced trial marketing samples of \u2018bright white’ kaolin suitable for a range of conventional uses including high-end ceramics. <\/p>\n
The miner also stated that, in addition to conventional \u2018platy’ kaolin, the deposits include a significant proportion of halloysite, kaolin’s nanotubular pseudomorph, which is being analyzed by researchers from the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia and the University of Newcastle.<\/p>\n
\u201cNatural nanotubes have the potential to replace expensive[ly] manufactured carbon nanotubes in a wide variety of new technology applications including strengthening filler applications, carbon and hydrogen adsorption, and energy storage. High purity alumina is a complementary new age material crucial in the manufacture of many modern high-technology products. Processed kaolin-halloysite from Carey’s Well exhibits potential to be an ideal HPA feedstock, with metallurgical characterisation research underway to establish quality,\u201d the brief reads.<\/p>\n
The post Minotaur and Andromeda form star alliance<\/a> appeared first on MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2026read more<\/a> <\/p>\n Source:: Infomine<\/a><\/p>\n The post Minotaur and Andromeda form star alliance<\/a><\/a> appeared first on Junior Mining Analyst<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minotaur Exploration (ASX: MEP) announced today that it has signed a binding Heads of Agreement with Andromeda Metals (ASX: ADN), according to which the latter may earn up to 75 per cent interest in Minotaur’s kaolin-halloysite deposits in South Australia through the expenditure of $6 million over a period of up to 5 years. According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"default","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":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","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-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}