Elevate Uranium Limited (ASX: EL8 | OTC: ELVUF) has reported on the design and construction of the U-pgrade™ Demonstration Plant which will be used to evaluate the performance of U-pgradeTM in beneficiating ore from the Koppies Uranium Project in Namibia.
Elevate Uranium’s managing director, Murray Hill, commented, “We are making significant progress in the design and construction of the U-pgrade™ demonstration plant. Construction began in December 2024 and is on track for completion by mid-2025. The plant aims to confirm, at a scalable size and operating on a continuous basis, that the U-pgrade™ beneficiation process can remove gangue waste material and concentrate the uranium mineral into a low mass, high grade concentrate before leaching.”
The plant is designed to confirm that the U-pgrade™ process can remove gangue waste material and concentrate the uranium mineral into a low mass, high-grade concentrate before leaching. This trial is expected to de-risk the U-pgrade™ process for commercialization.
Fremantle Metallurgy Pty Ltd was awarded the construction contract due to their experience in design and construction of similar sized demonstration and/or pilot plants for clients ranging from BHP to junior resource companies.
The plant will undergo factory acceptance testing in Perth, be containerized, shipped to Namibia, re-assembled, and used to process at least 60t of Koppies ore. The results will guide the design of a full-scale commercial U-pgradeTM processing plant. The design and construction are on schedule, with completion expected by mid-2025.
Additionally, simultaneously with the construction of the plant, resource growth drilling continues across the Koppies Uranium Project at Namib IV. The Namib IV mineralization was discovered in 2021. However, further exploration was deferred in favour of the company’s highly successful drilling programs to grow the Koppies resource. Exploration recommenced at Namib IV late in 2024, with the strategy influenced by the experience gained from exploration of the basement hosted mineralization encountered at the Koppies resource.
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