Archer Exploration Limited Lonsdale Metallurgical Facility
14.10.2012 | ABN Newswire
09:24 AEST Oct 12, 2012 ABN Newswire (C) 2004-2012 Asia Business News PL. All Rights Reserved.Adelaide, Australia (ABN Newswire) - The Board of Archer Exploration Limited (ASX:AXE) is pleased to announce that the Company has established a sample processing facility at Lonsdale in southern Adelaide. All graphite trench and diamond drill samples from Campoona Shaft and Sugarloaf were transferred to the facility in late September where preparation of composite samples is underway.
The facility provides Archer with a metallurgical workshop and bulk sample storage area. The facility has been set up for weighing, washing, wet screening, drying, crushing, splitting and blending of specially prepared bulk samples to be sent to commercial laboratories for flotation tests.
Further in-house testing capability is being developed to allow for the bench scale testing of differing extractive processes. Ore microscopy has also been established to provide visual assessments of performance of intermediate processing steps.
The metallurgical facility under Dr David Lock will play an important role in defining the optimum process design for producing graphite concentrates from Campoona graphite ores. Over time the facility will be used to test several regional graphite targets including Sugarloaf.
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About Archer Exploration Limited:
Archer Exploration Limited (ASX:AXE) is a graphite, magnesite, copper, gold and manganese explorer focused on the discovery of world-class ore deposits.
The company has carefully acquired a portfolio of projects, covering an area in excess of 5300 km2, in the highly prospective Gawler Craton and Adelaide Fold Belt regions of South Australia. All projects are 100% owned by the Company.
Archer also has earned the right to 100% of minerals other than uranium on EL4693 Wildhorse Plain located near Cleve on Eyre Peninsula.
The Company's flagship Campoona and Sugarloaf graphite deposits occur in the Cleve district where the Company has tenure of 933km2 in the emerging graphite province.
Archer Exploration Limited has an experienced board and management team and has the ability to maximise the potential of the company's world-class projects.
Contact:
Archer Exploration Limited
T: +61-8-8272-3288
WWW: www.archerexploration.com.au