Investigator Resources receives Paris test work results

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Investigator Resources (ASX: IVR) has received has received positive results from recent – initial metallurgical trials conducted on drill samples from the company’s Paris silver prospect in South Australia.

The Paris silver project is situated within the Peterlumbo joint venture tenement, of which Investigator has a 75 per cent interest and is manager, and is located on the Eyre Peninsula.

Investigator released a maiden resource for the Paris silver project last week of 20 million ounces of silver at 110 grams per tonne silver and 0.6 per cent lead using a 30g/t silver cut-off.

The recent metallurgical test work was undertaken by the company’s consultants, the Core Resources Group, located in Brisbane, and was carried out on representative Paris silver ore types.

“We are very encouraged with the first-pass metallurgical results that indicate the Paris silver mineralisation is likely to be amenable to conventional extraction processes,” Investigator Resources managing director John Anderson said in the company’s announcement to the Australian Securities Exchange.

 

Metallurgical samples representative of Paris silver deposit
ore-types; grade, grind size and cyanide leach recoveries in bottle-roll
tests over 24 and 48 hours. Source: Company announcement

 

“Standard laboratory techniques achieved good silver recoveries for a representative suite of samples of the Paris mineralisation.

“These initial metallurgical results add to the positive attributes of the grade, hallowness and open extent for the Paris silver project.

“More metallurgical work will be scheduled at the appropriate time in 2014.

“This is expected to achieve even better recoveries through optimisation of the processing pathway.”