
Platina Resources has successfully concluded a definitive feasibility study for its Platina Scandium Project. Platina Resources Ltd has demonstrated that it can produce 2% scandium-aluminium master alloy from the scandium oxide processed from its Platina Scandium Project in New South Wales.
Experiment works have been underway since August 2018 to develop proprietary production procedures for scandium-aluminium master alloy. Converting scandium oxide to aluminium scandium master alloy would be a value added business proposition for Platina Resources.
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The feasibility sample production has concluded and it showed how the procedure developed as part of the test work program can reliably produce 2% scandium-aluminium master alloy. It demonstrated master alloys produced from 3 different scandium chemicals from intermediate stages within the scandium recovery flow sheet.
This alloy was produced from either scandium oxide or from intermediate products in the flow sheet developed in the definitive feasibility study (DFS) test work program.
Platina’s managing director Corey Nolan said: “Developing procedures that enable Platina to produce scandium-containing master alloy is an important step in being able to provide potential aluminium industry off-take partners with their preferred product.
He also added that the ability to produce the master alloy from an intermediate product would have the potential for capital and operating cost reductions in the final operation flowsheet.
The company did not divulge much detail as the project is still under experiment and Platina is looking at options for intellectual property protection for the developed processes. The company will be looking at undertaking further work to scale up the process so that they can provide larger samples to their potential off-take partners.
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