Aston Minerals Limited (ASX: ASO) is moving to the next stage of assessment for the development of the Edleston Gold Project in Canada.
Gold bearing core taken from previous drilling at the Edleston Main deposit and included in the current 1.5Moz gold resource1 has been selected to be used in a metallurgical test program to be conducted at SGS Lakefield, an industry leader in metallurgical and mineralogical testing based in Ontario.
“This standard gold metallurgical test programme will be used to confirm the gravity gold recovery rate as previously reported on 27th March 2023 as well as the leachability of the gold and how the gold responds to standard bottle roll leach tests,” Managing Director, Russell Bradford, said.
“This work will inform the company on the potential and basic operating conditions such as power input, reagent consumption, and leach time and recovery. All these points can be evaluated on these samples as a first pass using bottle roll tests at various grinds, reagent additions and time.”
The tests will start this month and go through to December 2023. Technical support will come from Greg Lane at Ausenco, and all tests will be conducted at SGS Lakefield, Ontario..