PROMONTORIO – Metallurgical Testing on Diatreme Hosted Promontorio Silver Resource Indicates Gold Within Pyrite Can be Effectively Recovered Through Post Pressure Oxidation Treatment
Kootenay Silver Inc. is pleased to announce results from preliminary metallurgical testing conducted by ALS Minerals of Kamloops, British Columbia on the gold component contained within the diatreme hosted Promontorio Silver resource. Results from the ALS gold extraction tests show that recovery of gold from the Promontorio resource is possible using post pressure oxidation. After pressure oxidation 94.5% of the gold was extracted from pyrite concentrate.