Aldoro Resources Limited has brought in a professor from the Central South University of China to undertake a commercialisation review on extracting rare earth elements and Niobium minerals contained at the Kameelburg Project.
Aldoro is conducting several streams of metallurgical bench testing, two in Perth at Bureau Veritas and Auralia under the guidance of an independent metallurgist and two in China at Central South University and Shenghe Resources Holding Co., a large manufacturer of rare earth products.
Dr. Zhiguo He’s review will encompass the processing and beneficiation of both project mineralisation and provide Aldoro with the beneficiation process that delivers a high recovery rate of contained REE and Niobium. He is also expected to provide the beneficiation process that produces a commercial-grade concentrate of REE and Niobium from within the contained mineralisation.
Aldoro expects the commercialisation review to take several months, and the shipment of 252kg of the mineralised sample has been successfully sent to Professor He.
Dr He is a full professor at the Central South University of China, a globally recognised university for its technological advances in minerals processing and metallurgy.
His research is predominantly focussed on the beneficiation and extraction of metals from various minerals and the use of biological processes in metal recovery from tailings and bioremediation.
Professor He is highly regarded in the processing methodology field having successfully completed various processing studies in the past five years.
In its quarterly report for March 2024, Aldoro Resources said they had collected metallurgical samples from several sites using a diamond core drill with a 100mm diameter bit, with seven core samples shipped to Perth for bench testing.
The company added that the initiative aims to produce a commercial-grade concentrate of rare earth metals (REE) and niobium.
The seven samples included six for targeting REE and one for Niobium (Nb) from the Kameelburg Carbonatite.
