Sunshine Metals reports excellent results from preliminary metallurgical test work on copper and gold mineralised core from its Liontown project in North Queensland.

The company said it had achieved gold recoveries to 97.4 per cent from conventional cyanide leaching (106µm grind size).

This went up to 99.4 per cent when the sample was ground to 38µm, as per the toll treating Pajingo gold operation about 25km away, Sunshine said.

The samples selected were representative of gold-copper rich mineralisation along the broader Liontown Footwall area and the site’s Gap Zone.

Copper recoveries to 95.2 per cent at a concentrate grade of 13 per cent copper, with a gold grade of 55.1 g/t gold, were returned from flotation of Gap Zone samples.

“The impressive results from metallurgical test work further underpin the significance of the gold-copper rich Liontown Footwall,” Sunshine managing director Damien Keys said.

“These results are a significant step forward and, with further refinement, will provide valuable input into a planned scoping study in 2025.

“The substantially improved recoveries of gold and copper will be applicable to specific zones in the Liontown resource, in particular the gold-rich panel where intersections of 17m at 22.1g/t gold and 20m at 18.2g/t gold were intersected.

“All bodes well for a significant resource update/upgrade in December 2024.”

Liontown, south-west of Charters Towers, is part of Sunshine Metals’ 1760sq km Ravenswood Consolidated Project.

The Townsville-headquartered company snapped up the Greater Liontown tenements in a $5.25 million deal after former owner Cromarty Resources (a Red River Resources subsidiary) went into administration in 2022.

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