Empire reports ‘exceptional’ results from titanium testwork
Aim-quoted Empire Metals on Monday announced the results from its most recent titanium dioxide (TiO2) product development testwork programme, carried out on mineral flotation concentrates produced from the mineralised weathered cap that extends across the Pitfield project in Western Australia.
The testwork results, which MD Shaun Bunn described as “extraordinary”, achieved a high-purity TiO2 product, assaying at 99.25% through conventional beneficiation, leaching and refining processes.
The TiO2 product contains non-detectable, or extremely low levels of deleterious impurities and is expected to be suitable for high-quality titanium sponge metal or high-grade TiO2 pigment production.
"It is remarkable that our technical team has so rapidly produced a high-purity TiO2 product. We believe this not only highlights the effectiveness of our processing approach, but also underscores the potential value of our product. Metallurgical testing and process optimisation continues, and with the availability of the 70 t of bulk sample collected in February we will now be able to significantly scale up the testwork and produce a variety of final product samples to share with prospective downstream end-users,” said Bunn.
Located within the Mid-West region, near the northern wheatbelt town of Three Springs, the Pitfield titanium project lies about 156 km south-east of Geraldton.
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