Benz Mining Corp (ASX: BNZ)
Reported highly encouraging initial cyanidation test work results from the Icon camp at the Glenburgh Gold Project in Western Australia.
Benz’s initial test results confirm that the gold at Icon is free milling with high recovery rates and low reagent consumption across all grade profiles tested.
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| Benz Mining | ASX: BNZ / TSX.V: BZ | |
| Stage | Exploration | |
| Metals | Gold | |
| Market cap | A$638 million @A$1.91 | |
| Location | Western Australia | |
| Website | www.benzmining.com |
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Benz Confirms Free Milling Gold with High Recoveries at Icon
Benz Mining Corp (ASX: BNZ) (“Benz” or the “Company”) is pleased to report highly encouraging initial cyanidation test work results from the Icon camp at the Glenburgh Gold Project in Western Australia.
Benz’s initial test results confirm that the gold at Icon is free milling with high recovery rates and low reagent consumption across all grade profiles tested.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
▪ ~95.5% gold extraction within 24 hours from composite samples representative of the
higher-grade core of the Icon deposit, confirming excellent conventional leach
performance with rapid leach kinetics, low final residues and low cyanide and lime
consumption.
▪ Consistently strong extraction across the Icon grade range tested, with high gold
extraction maintained from higher-grade core material through to the broader
mineralised halo, including material grading down to approximately 0.10 g/t gold.
▪ Icon mineralised halo represents an exciting incremental recoverable gold opportunity,
with material grading from 0.1- 0.3g/t gold leaching strongly and returning gold extraction up to 93.3%. Strong recovery at these grades is an important differentiator for Glenburgh.
▪ Important operational upside for future open-pit studies: low grade halo (0.1-0.3 g/t gold) has the potential to become mill feed rather than waste, with potential to substantially reduce any future strip ratios.
▪ Glenburgh drilling ramp-up and pre-development programs underway: Benz is ramping up to 12 RC shifts across Hurricane, Icon and Thunderbolt Camps, alongside advancing metallurgical, geotechnical and orebody knowledge programs, reflecting increasing confidence in Glenburgh emerging as a large-scale multi-million-ounce gold system.
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Benz CEO, Mark Lynch-Staunton, commented:
“These are exactly the kind of metallurgical results we want to see from a large, open-pittable gold system.
“The higher-grade Icon core has delivered excellent gold extraction of approximately 95.5% within 24 hours, but the real significance is that strong extraction levels are maintained well beyond the high grade core and into the broader mineralised halo.
“The notably consistent extraction response across the tested grade range is an important differentiator for Glenburgh. Material grading down to approximately 0.10 g/t Au leachedb strongly to very low final residues, highlighting an exciting incremental recoverable gold opportunity around the higher-grade zones.
“In a future open-pit scenario, material inside the pit shell has to be mined.
“The question is whether that material is waste, dilution or recoverable gold. These initial results show that the broader Icon mineralised halo has the potential to contribute recoverable gold, supporting favourable future open-pit mining metrics at Glenburgh.
“This is still early-stage metallurgical work, but it strongly supports our view that Icon is a clean leaching gold system with the scale, geometry and metallurgical characteristics required to become a major part of the Glenburgh growth story.”
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At the time of writing the author holds shares in Benz Mining.
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