Adex Mining Concentrate Optimization Program Test Results
07 Mars 2011 - 2:48PM
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Adex Mining Inc. ("Adex" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: ADE) is
pleased to announce initial results from its North Zone ("NZ")
concentrate testing program being conducted at SGS Lakefield in
Lakefield, Ontario.
A zinc/indium concentrate grading 48.2% zinc and assaying 5,310
parts per million ("PPM") indium with 95.6% zinc and 91.7% indium
recovery was produced in locked cycle test work ("LCT") completed
on February 18, 2011. Bench testing leading up to the LCT
demonstrated the reliability and robustness of the zinc/indium
concentrate recovery circuit, which was confirmed by the LCT. A
follow-up sulphide LCT was conducted on March 7, 2011 to further
confirm results from the February 18, 2011 LCT. Results from this
LCT are expected in about two weeks.
It is planned that the zinc/indium concentrate from this phase
of production will feed the hydrometallurgical plant to produce
zinc metal and indium sponge metal. As reported in the Company's
press release dated January 20, 2011, the hydrometallurgical test
facility produced 96.25% indium sponge and 98.89% zinc metal using
Adex's unique chloride production process.
With the zinc/indium concentrate process testing complete, Adex
will now focus on optimizing its tin concentrate flowsheet. Tin
bench scale testing using fresh core material has begun and will
continue over the next month. Results from tin grade and recovery
optimization are anticipated in 4-6 weeks.
The SGS concentrate flowsheet development test program has been
ongoing for the past 10 months starting with over 50 bench and LCTs
in the spring of 2010, followed by over 110 hours of piloting. The
pilot plant consumed 60 tonnes of NZ resource material providing
data used to define a flowsheet for the production of zinc/indium
and tin concentrates. Test data from all of the test programs will
be available to support a Definitive Feasibility Study.
"This completes another step in our march toward a production
decision" says Errol Farr, Adex President and CEO. "As previously
stated, the potential to produce and market high grade tin, indium
and zinc products places Adex in a unique position amongst junior
mining companies."
Indium production at Mount Pleasant is planned at 40 tonnes per
year ("tpy"), with zinc metal production planned at about 4,000 tpy
of zinc metal. Adex also plans to produce about 1500 tpy of tin
metal either as high purity metal or as metal contained in tin
concentrate.
QUALIFIED PERSON
J. Dean Thibault, P. Eng., Senior Process Chemical Engineer and
Principal of Thibault & Associates Inc., an independent
qualified person as defined by NI 43-101, supervised the
preparation of the technical information contained in this press
release in compliance with NI 43-101.
ABOUT ADEX
Adex Mining Inc. is a Canadian junior mining company with an
experienced management team. The Company is focused on developing
its flagship Mount Pleasant Mine Property, a multi-metal project
that is host to promising tungsten-molybdenum and tin-indium-zinc
mineralization. Located in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, the
Mount Pleasant Mine Property is 80 kilometres south of Fredericton,
the provincial capital, and 65 kilometres from the United States
border. The common shares of Adex trade on the TSX Venture Exchange
under the stock symbol "ADE".
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"forward-looking" statements which involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results,
performance or achievements of Adex, its subsidiary or the industry
in which they operate to be materially different from any future
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current expectations of the management of Adex with respect to
future events based on currently available information and are
subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results,
performance or achievements to differ materially from those
expressed or implied by those forward-looking statements. These
risks and uncertainties are detailed from time to time, including,
without limitation, under the heading "Risk Factors", in reports
filed by Adex with the Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario
Securities Commissions which are available at www.sedar.com and to
which readers of this press release are referred for additional
information concerning Adex, its prospects and the risks and
uncertainties relating to Adex and its prospects. New risk factors
may arise from time to time and it is not possible for management
to predict all of those risk factors or the extent to which any
factor or combination of factors may cause actual results,
performance and achievements of Adex to be materially different
from those contained in forward-looking statements. Although the
forward-looking statements contained in this press release are
based upon what management believes to be reasonable assumptions,
Adex cannot assure investors that actual results will be consistent
with these forward-looking statements. Given these risks and
uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results.
The forward-looking information contained in this press release
is current only as of the date of the press release. Adex does not
undertake or assume any obligation to release publicly any
revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or
circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events, except as required by law.
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Contacts: Adex Mining Inc. J. Errol Farr, CMA President, Chief
Executive Officer and Director 1-866-508-2339 (ADEX)
investorrelations@adexmining.com www.adexmining.com
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