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MTM Critical Metals Achieves High Gold Recovery from E-Waste using FJH Technology

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THE CLEAN ENERGY CAFE: MTM Critical Metals (ASX: MTM) reported gold recovery success from electronic waste (e-waste) during initial tests of the company’s proprietary Flash Joule Heating (FJH) technology.

MTM Critical Metals believes the high recovery gold yields achieved by the testing demonstrates the technology’s potential to change the status quo for the recycling industry.

The company’s proof-of-concept stage testing recovered up to 70 per cent of the contained gold within e-waste without the use of toxic acids.

The FJH process works by ‘flash’ heating e-waste in a chlorine gas atmosphere, vaporizing the target metals like gold for efficient separation and collection via metal chlorides.

The process is highly scalable and environmentally friendly, offering a sustainable and energy-efficient alternative to traditional methods of recovering metals from e-waste such as smelting and chemical leaching, which are considered energy-intensive, environmentally harmful, and economically inefficient.

“FJH has proven to be an efficient and sustainable solution for recovering gold from low-grade e-waste, with future tests to focus on higher metal content material as it becomes available,” MTM chief executive officer Michael Walshe said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“As global e-waste levels rise and the demand for greener metal production increases, particularly in the face of an acid shortage, FJH presents a cleaner and more efficient alternative to traditional methods.

“This technology holds the potential to unlock significant economic value through environmentally responsible metal extraction, delivering lasting benefits for shareholders, the industry, and the environment.”

E-waste is one of the fastest-growing components of solid waste with over 60 million tonnes produced annually, of which only about 20 per cent is currently recycled.

This is a readily available source of precious and critical metals like gold, copper, and palladium that is valued at over US$70 billion in potential recoverable content.

It also presents a great opportunity for material reclamation that reduces carbon emissions and minimises toxic by-products.

 

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MTM Critical Metals Encounters New Zones of REE and Niobium at Pomme

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: MTM Critical Metals (ASX: MTM) reported an encounter with further total rare earth oxide (TREO) mineralisation via diamond drilling at the company’s Pomme rare earth element (REE)-niobium project in Québec, Canada.

MTM Critical Metals said the drilling continued to affirm REE and niobium mineralisation over broad intervals in previously untested parts of the carbonatite.

Narrow zones of higher-grade mineralisation greater than one per cent (10,000ppm) TREO were intersected, including;

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149.5 metres at 0.32 per cent TREO and 0.05 per cent niobium from 122m, including 1.5m at 1.31 per cent TREO and 0.06 per cent niobium.

The company said assays indicate that a healthy proportion of the TREO grade is high value magnet REE mineralisation i.e., neodymium and praseodymium.

“The latest three holes were completed in areas not previously tested with any drilling,” MTM Critical Metals managing director Lachlan Reynolds said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“These new assay results provide us with further information of the geology and distribution of rare earth and niobium mineralisation within the Pomme carbonatite complex.

“The assays follow encouraging results previously from the first five holes and we are still eagerly awaiting assays for the remaining five holes from the 13-hole campaign completed at Pomme.

“As results are received, our technical team will be putting together a 3-dimensional model of the Pomme carbonatite and evaluating the most prospective part of the target for coherent zones of high-grade mineralisation.

“These areas will be prioritised for further drilling follow-up.”

 

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MTM Critical Metals Reports Strong First Assay Results from Pomme Drilling

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: MTM Critical Metals (ASX: MTM) reported high-grade total rare earth oxide (TREO) assay results from diamond drilling at the company’s Pomme REE-niobium project in Québec, Canada.

MTM Critical Metals said the first three of 13 diamond drill holes drilled have returned TREO assay results up to 1.62 per cent (16,200ppm) at the Pomme project.

Rare earth element (REE) and niobium (Nb) mineralisation has been confirmed over broad intervals, and importantly numerous higher-grade zones of greater than 1% (10,000ppm) TREO were also intersected.

Results include:

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398 metres at 0.54 per cent TREO (5,400ppm) and 0.05 per cent Nb2O5 from 16m.

This included a best interval of 26.5m at 1.45 per cent TREO and 0.02 per cent Nb2O5.

“Assay results from the recent drilling show the Pomme carbonatite complex contains abundant rare earth and niobium mineralisation that extends throughout the full length of the diamond drill cores and verify the historical REE-Nb mineralisation intersected in drill hole MVX-12-01,” MTM Critical Metals managing director Lachlan Reynolds said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Furthermore, there are a number of significant higher-grade zones within the mineralised carbonatite indicating significant potential for an economic resource of some scale.

“The consistent high percentage of NdPr and the presence of niobium are particularly pleasing and increase the mineralisation basket price for the prospect.

“Our exploration team will be looking to undertake a thorough assessment and interpretation of the geological logging and the assay results in order to define high priority areas for follow-up exploration works, including drilling.”

 

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MTM Critical Metals Claims Laterite Nickel Discovery

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THE DRILL SERGEANT: MTM Critical Metals (ASX: MTM) has claimed a new laterite nickel mineralisation discovery at the Seahorse prospect within the company’s East Laverton project in the north Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

MTM Critical Metals declared the discovery on the back of assay results from a recently completed program of aircore drilling that confirm nickel laterite mineralisation at the Seahorse prospect.

The Seahorse area is located approximately 50km southeast of Laverton and is considered by MTM Critical Metals as being prospective for a range of commodities, including nickel, cobalt, rare earth elements (REE), gold and base metals based on limited historical exploration results.

The results retuned nickel mineralisation grades in a lateritic weathering zone over an ultramafic host rock, up to 2.2 per cent nickel.

The nickel zones are locally coincident with elevated cobalt, chrome, and rare earth element (REE) mineralisation.

Higher grade drilling intersections include:

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17 metres at 0.92 per cent nickel;

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28m at 0.95 per cent nickel, 10m at 0.1 per cent cobalt and 21m at 0.97 per cent chrome; and

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28m at 0.97 per cent nickel and 32m at 1.08 per cent chrome.

“This discovery of lateritic nickel mineralisation is the successful result of MTM’s systematic exploration campaign at the Seahorse prospect over the past two years,” MTM Critical Metals managing director Lachlan Reynolds said in the company’s ASX announcement.

“Prior to our work, there has been limited historical exploration in this area, which is mostly covered by transported sediments and marginal to the greenstone belts that are traditionally considered to be most prospective.

“However, our combined soil sampling program and interpretation of the regional geophysical surveys has identified numerous anomalies, which this drilling confirms can be associated with mineralisation developed in the laterite profile developed over prospective rocks.

“The significant nickel grades and widths intersected at this stage are very encouraging.

“Furthermore, as only part of the interpreted strike length of the interpreted ultramafic unit have been tested with the drilling, there is considerable potential for a large resource to be delineated.

“We are also keen to evaluate the potential for sulphide-hosted nickel mineralisation associated with the ultramafic units and are considering what ground geophysical survey types may be appropriate to undertake to define new drilling targets.”

 

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