UraniumSA (ASX:USA) has received a $50,000 grant from the South Australian Government to advance metallurgical test work for its Samphire uranium deposits in South Australia
UraniumSA will work in collaboration with the University of South Australia’s Ian Walk Research Institute to focus on finding a more efficient process for the removal and recovery of uranium from saline leach solutions, and to advance UraniumSA’s existing data and process understanding.
This grant will facilitate the continuation of recent research and test work by UraniumSA which aims to optimise pathways for uranium recovery from hyper-saline solution.
Kinetic Testing work planned under the MOU with CleanTeq (ASX:CLQ) has been completed, and locked cycle testing has been scoped and costed.
More extensive lock cycle testing will involve separation and purification processes using three different ion exchange resins to determine the most favourable technique of extraction.
UraniumSA boasts a substantial portfolio of properties in South Australia’s Gawler Craton.
The Samphire project contains the Blackbush deposit with an estimated inferred resource of 64.5 million tonnes of mineralisation at a bulk grade of 230 parts per million, containing 14,850 tonnes uranium at 100part per million cut-off grade.
In addition to this is the Plumbush deposit with an estimated inferred resource of 21.8 million tonnes of mineralisation at a bulk grade of 292 parts per million, containing 6,300 tonnes uranium at 100 parts per million.
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