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TerraMS-12JUL-001 Wellgreen - Pt-Pd Minerals Deportment – LCT01 Tails
Nickel Scavenger Tail Cycle G – Locked Cycle Test 01 - Wellgreen deposit
Assays, % Assays g/ t
Cu Ni S Fe Pt Pd Au
Ni Scavenger Tail 0.03 0.13 1.15 10.4 0.22 0.09 0.02
Data from the entire set of PGE minerals identified in the Nickel Scavenger Tail-G sample are presented
in Appendix 2, whereas a series of BSE images illustrating pertinent features are presented in Appendix 3.
A summary of the types of PGE minerals and other precious metal particles is presented in Table 6,
whereas the distribution of the mode of occurrence of these particles is presented in Table 7.
Table 6. Ni Scavenger Tail- Type of PGE Minerals
Precious Metal Code Vol % Distribution
Paladium Antimonite Pd-Sb 0.3
Palladium (+/-Sb+/-Ni)-Telluride Pd-Sb(Ni)-Te 56.0
sperrylite Pt-As 43.7
Table 7. Ni Scavenger Tail- Mode of Occurrence of PGE Minerals
Precious Metal Code Vol % Distribution
inclusion 1 25.9
at grain boundaries 4 17.6
attached/ exposed 5 44.2
liberated 6 12.3
In this Scavenger Tail sample, a total of nineteen PGE particles were identified. Unclassified Pd phases
(Pd Antimonite and Pd tellurides) account for approximately 56 vol% of the grains identified and
sperryllite (Pt-As) the remaining 44 vol%.
A minor amount of particles occurs as liberated grains (~12 vol%), all of which sperrylite. In contrast,
PGE minerals deported to this scavenger tail are chiefly intergrown with gangue minerals, and occur as
inclusions (~ 26%), at grain boundaries (~ 17.5%), and attached to gangue minerals (~ 44%).
Approximately two third of the non liberated particles (~ 66.4 vol %) are intergrown with sulphide
minerals (by far mainly pyrrhotite), whereas approximately 17.2% occur intergrown with silicate gangue,
and another 4.1% at silicate gangue sulphide mineral contacts.
The entire group of particles identified in this Scavenger Tail also possess re-calculated grain size
diameters of less than 4 µm; only two particles present a diameter coarser than 3 µm. The overall average
for these particles is 1.3 µm.
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