Vital to optimise rare earths processing flowsheet in Tardiff Scoping Study

14 August 2024

Highlights

Vital has appointed mineral processing consultancy Corem to establish a preliminary flowsheet for processing rare earths from Vital’s Tardiff deposit in NWT, Canada
Corem will undertake tasks such as a mineralogical study (incl. chemical analysis), grinding, separation methods, flotation, and baking and cracking tests
Testwork aims to optimise flowsheet to allow Vital to achieve a suitable grade and recovery of REE
Testwork is expected to be completed over the next three months
Results will be included in a Tardiff Scoping Study, which is on track for completion by the end of CY2024.

Vital Metals Limited (ASX: VML) (“Vital”, “Vital Metals” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce it has appointed Canada-based mineral processing consultancy Corem to complete processing testwork on samples from the Tardiff deposit at its Nechalacho Rare Earths Project in Northwest Territories, Canada.

The appointment comes as part of a Scoping Study underway for Tardiff and due for delivery by the end of CY2024. Vital recently announced the appointment of ERM Consultants Canada to lead the study¹.

Corem’s scope of work aims to establish a preliminary flowsheet in order to recover the rare earth elements (REE) from samples at Tardiff by concentrating the ore via physical separation and flotation techniques. Once the optimal flowsheet is determined, it will evaluate the leachability of a Tardiff concentrate.

The work is expected to take approximately three months to complete.

Vital Managing Director Lisa Riley said: “Appointing Corem to undertake this work to optimise our flowsheet is another important step towards delivering a Scoping Study for Tardiff by the end of 2024. Corem has more than 25 years of expertise in mineral processes and processing and is an expert in this field and we are confident this work will help us determine the best way forward for developing processing capabilities at Tardiff.”

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