Tin › Rentails
The Rentails Project is based on the re-treatment of historic tailings from over 40 years of mining at the Renison Bell Mine. Metals X is completing a feasibility study into the extraction of tin using a combination of ultrafine gravity and floatation techniques to produce a low grade concentrate for fuming and generation of a higher grade and sale-able tin concentrate.
Rentails Tin Project - 17.9 MT @ 0.42% Sn
During the year 2006 the Metals X completed additional sampling and validation drilling over the Rentails Resource. Samples collected from this drilling program will be used in new test-work programs to determine the optimal flotation regime for the production of concentrate from the tailings.
Typical Sn Fume Plant
Metals X advanced work in relation to the tin fuming design, capital and operating costs. Thermodynamic modeling based on indicative inputs (concentrate, coal, lime, etc) have indicated that the process is robust. Work has commenced on design and flow-sheets to integrate the proposed Rentails Plant into the Renison operations.
A full process pilot plant is planned to simulate the whole process before the commencement of a detailed and bankable feasibility study.