VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / May 3, 2021 / Banyan Gold Corp.
The results validate the potential for an open-pit, heap leach operation, with high recoveries from oxide and sulphide ore”, said Tara Christie, President and CEO.
The metallurgical test work for the AurMac Gold Project consisted of a series of 48-hour bottle roll tests completed by Forte Analytical LLC, a company focused on metallurgical testing and optimizing heap leach operations worldwide, on 17 representative composited samples from the 2020 drill program.
Gold extraction was generally complete within the first 4-8 hours with small increases to 24 hours.
As of May 2, 2021, Banyan has completed over 26 drillholes for > 5600 metres on the Powerline Zone of the AurMac property with two drills currently operating.
Head assay and bottle roll test charges were split via riffle splitter into a 1 kg split from each composite for testing and analysis.
Head Analysis – Sample splits for Carbon and Sulfur speciation and Fire Assay analyses were sent to McClelland Laboratories in Sparks, NV.
Bottle Roll Testing – Bottle roll leach tests were conducted on a 500 g charge of pulverized material, approximate P80 of 70 um, at 40% solids.
Banyan is focused on gold exploration projects that have the geological potential, size of land package and proximity to infrastructure that is advantageous for a mineral project to have potential to become a mine.
The 173 sq km AurMac Property lies 30 km from Victoria Gold’s Eagle Project and adjacent to Alexco ‘s Keno Hill Silver District and is highly prospective for structurally controlled, intrusion related gold-silver mineralization.
The 2020 Initial Mineral Resource Estimate prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 guidelines for the AurMac Property is 903,945 ‎ounces of gold.
The Hyland Gold Project, located 70 km NE of Watson Lake, Yukon, along the Southeast end of the Tintina Gold Belt is a sediment hosted, structurally controlled, intrusion related gold deposit, with a large land package daylighting at surface and numerous other known surface gold targets.
Table 2 shows the Hyland Main Zone Indicated Gold Resource Estimate, prepared in accordance with NI 43-101, at a 0.3 g/t gold equivalent cutoff, contains 8.6 million tonnes grading 0.85 g/t AuEq for 236,000 AuEq ounces with an Inferred Mineral Resource of 10.8 million tonnes grading 0.83 g/t AuEq for 288,000 AuEq ounces.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, uncertainties inherent in resource estimates , capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates, the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals, political risks, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets, inflation, changes in exchange rates, fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in the development of projects and the other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, enhanced risks inherent to conducting business in any jurisdiction, and those risks set out in Banyan’s public documents filed on SEDAR.
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