Kingsland Minerals (ASX:KNG) is planning to use metallurgical testwork results, combined with an impending resource estimate, to underpin a Scoping Study for the Leliyn Graphite Project in the Northern Territory.
The Scoping Study will focus on the project producing fine flake graphite concentrate.
This news comes after a bulk concentrate sample from Leliyn was dispatched to ProGraphite in Germany for further metallurgical testwork.
Kingsland, which has a market capitalisation of $8.7 million, says the testwork is expected to take five months to complete and will include initial material analysis, spherical graphite testwork, purification of the spherical graphite, and electrochemical characterisation of spherical graphite.
Managing Director Richard Maddocks says this is another step forward in developing the Leliyn Project.
“The results of the metallurgical testwork combined with the impending mineral resource update will enable us to begin a Scoping Study into establishing a graphite mining and processing operation at Leliyn near Pine Creek in the Northern Territory,” Maddocks says.
Kingsland notes future work on the resource estimate will include geo-metallurgical parameters to enable more favourable domains of graphitic schist to be modelled in mine planning.
The Leliyn Graphite Project is located about 40km east of Pine Creek in the Northern Territory. The project has an inferred resource of 194.6 million tonnes @ 7.3% total graphitic carbon containing 14.2 million tonnes of graphite.
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