{"id":702609,"date":"2018-05-18T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=702609"},"modified":"2018-05-18T16:09:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:09:40","slug":"thor-explorations-says-results-of-test-work-at-segilola-better-than-expected-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=702609","title":{"rendered":"Thor Explorations says results of test work at Segilola better than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

Canada-listed junior miner Thor Explorations (TSX-V: THX) published Friday<\/a> first results from metallurgical test work at its Segilola project in Nigeria, poised to become the country’s first large-scale gold mine.<\/p>\n

The testing is part of the definitive feasibility study (DFS) for the project, located about 200km from the capital Lagos, and which is expected to come online in early 2020.<\/p>\n

The project, poised to become Nigeria’s first large-scale gold mine, is expected to come online in early 2020.<\/q><\/p>\n

Highlights of the results, which used a bulk sample of 500kg of core, showed 77.5% average gravity recovery rate, and 98.9% total recovery was confirmed at 106 \u00b5m (micrometer) grind size and 24-hour cyanide leach<\/p>\n

Average recovered head grade was 8.73 grams per tonne of the yellow metal, compared to estimated grade of 6.66 g\/t gold.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely encouraged by these results which have both confirmed our hypotheses and exceeded our expectations,” the company’s president and chief executive, Segun Lawson, said in the statement.<\/p>\n

“The results confirm substantial gravity recovery is achievable and a significant opportunity exists for optimisation of the process plant, resulting in a reduced operating cost, increased total recovery and improved process efficiency. The results also return a 30% increase in the recovered grade compared to the estimated grade.”<\/p>\n

Probable gold reserves at Segilola, Thor’s flagship project, are currently pegged at 448,000 ounces of gold grading 4.2 grams per tonne of gold within a global resource base of 862,000 ounces gold.<\/p>\n

Shares in Thor Explorations stood at 22 Canadian cents on Friday afternoon. So far this year, they’ve climbed nearly 50%.<\/p>\n

The post Thor Explorations says results of test work at Segilola better than expected<\/a> appeared first on MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…read more<\/a> <\/p>\n

From:: Mining.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Cecilia Jamasmie Canada-listed junior miner Thor Explorations (TSX-V: THX) published Friday first results from metallurgical test work at its Segilola project in Nigeria, poised to become the country’s first large-scale gold mine. The testing is part of the definitive feasibility study (DFS) for the project, located about 200km from the capital Lagos, and which […]<\/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":[369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miningcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702609","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=702609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}