As Bard Ventures (CBS-V, BVTLF-O) awaits a resource estimate for its Lone Pine molybdenum project, 15 kmnorthwest of Houston, B. C., the company has received initial metallurgical testing results.
Bard tested 50 kg of quartered NQ2-size core assaying 0.06% molybdenum and 0.034% copper from the Alaskite zone of the Lone Pine property.
The company says rougher flotation tests produced molybdenum recoveries of 90% or greater to the rougher concentrate. It also reports that the open-circuit batch cleaner tests produced concentrate grades as high as 43% molybdenum.
The tests showed that the most abundant sulphide minerals in the ore are pyrite/pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and molybdenite.
Bard drilled nearly 19,000 metres on the property last year; about 16,000 metres were on the Alaskite zone, 2,500 metres at the Quartz Breccia zone and about 500 metres on the Granby zone.
A resource estimate is expected some time in the first quarter.
Highlights from last year’s drilling in the Alaskite zone include a 730-metre intercept grading 0.1% molybdenum, including 130 metres of 0.2% moly, and 24 metres grading 0.3% moly.
Drilling in the Quartz Breccia zone returned a 240-metre intercept grading 0.06% moly, including 42 metres averaging 0.1% moly. There was also gold mineralization in the Quartz Breccia zone, including 2 metres of 5.7 grams gold per tonne.
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