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Parkway Minerals NL: Amended Dinner Hill Phosphate Process Design Update
September 2017
ASX Announcement
5 September 2017
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AMENDED ANNOUNCMENT ON DINNER HILL PHOSPHATE
PROCESS DESIGN
COMPANY DETAILS
ABN: 62 147 346 334
PRINCIPAL AND
E info@parkwayminerals.com.au
P +61 8 9479 5386
F +61 8 9475 0847
ASX CODE
PWN
FRANKFURT CODE
A1JH27
OTC PINK CODE
PWNNY
CORPORATE
INFORMATION
5 September 2017
359M Ordinary shares
123M Partly paid shares
17M Listed Options
5M Unlisted options
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Adrian Griffin
(Non-Executive Chairman)
Patrick McManus
(Managing Director)
Chew Wai Chuen
(Non-Executive Director)
Natalia Streltsova
(Non-Executive Director
Note this announcement is an amendment to the release of 31 August 2017. It
contains more detail on the sample selection, a Table 1 on sampling techniques and
competent person statements in relation to sample selection and mineral
processing
Highlights
Simpler flowsheet offers lower capital and operating costs
Recoveries ranged from 52% to 68% at a range of concentrate
grades between 15 and 20% P2O5, with 1 stage of flotation and
without grinding
Process improvements identified that should enhance both
recovery and grade
Parkway Minerals NL (“PWN”, “Parkway” or “the Company”) is pleased to
announce the results of independent testwork carried out to enhance the
Company’s phosphate fertiliser flowsheet for the Dinner Hill project.
Dinner Hill is the flagship of the Dandaragan Trough (Figure 1). Previous work had
outlined a large resource of both phosphate and glauconite both of which can be
used for the manufacture of fertiliser products (refer ASX announcement 3 June
2015).
Dinner Hill is located in an area of high quality infrastructure, close to rail and export
ports. The development plan is to start mining to produce single superphosphate
as stage 1 and use Parkways patented K-Max® process to produce sulphate of
potash (SOP), high magnesium SOP, alum and phosphoric acid as stage 2. This
reduces risk, capital requirements and shareholder dilution.
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Figure 1: Dinner Hill Location
Sample Selection
A composite sample of Molecap Greensand weighing 104 kilograms was selected for independent metallurgical
testwork. The composite was comprised of 12, 1m drill samples collected from three NQ air core drill holes
located within the resource area, see Figure 2. Samples were collected over 1m intervals from the drill rig
cyclone directly into polythene sample bags. Individual bags were secured and labelled and transported to
storage areas by Company personnel.
The three metallurgical drill holes were drilled as twin holes located within 5m of a drill hole used in the Mineral
Resource estimate. The twins, or metallurgical drill holes, were visually logged to confirm the target lithology.
The metallurgical drill hole was not assayed by PWN. Assay data from the twinned resource drill hole was used
to estimate the geochemistry of the metallurgical drill hole.
It is considered that the samples collected for the testwork are spatially and lithologically representative of
the target horizon, the Molecap Greensand.
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Figure 2: Location of metallurgical drill holes
Dinner Hill Pre-Feasibility Testwork
As part of the Pre-Feasibility testwork for Dinner Hill the flowsheet developed as part of the Scoping Study was
reviewed, and opportunities to improve the process flowsheet were identified.
Testwork was initiated with KEMWorks, based in Central Florida, USA. KEMWorks is a company that is focused
on phosphate mining, processing and project development ( website: http://kemworks.com). The testwork
was aimed at identifying process improvements that could lead to increased Separation Efficiency and/or cost
reductions.
Unfortunately the composite provided to KEMWorks was lower grade than the majority of the phosphate
mineralisation, which makes direct comparisons with some of the earlier testwork difficult. Typically a lower
grade feed leads to a lower recovery and/or lower concentrate grade.
In the scoping study test work, (ASX release 30 September 2015 “Scoping Study Results”) the processing regime,
developed by Perth based consultants, Strategic Metallurgy comprised:
beneficiation,
grinding and
flotation (Coarse and fine circuits, 2 sets of Roughers, 3 sets of Cleaners, 3 sets of Scavengers),
which resulted in a product grade of 28% P2O5, with a recovery of 60% from a feed grade of 2.9% P2O5.
Test work at KEMWorks utilizing only beneficiation and a simpler flotation regime (rougher) on only part of the
feed, produced a grade of between 15 and 21% P2O5 with recoveries between 52 and 68%, from a feed grade
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of 1.8% P2O5. The testwork successfully utilized attrition scrubbing, which is a low energy process, to clean the
phosphate mineral surfaces of clays, break loose weak inclusions or attached particles of impurities, and break
up aggregates of clay-rich material, whilst minimizing generation of fines, which have proved difficult to
separate efficiently in earlier work.
Identified flowsheet improvements (not tested) include:
Selective size reduction, of coarse fractions, to enhance liberation,
Further cleaning flotation stages
Further scavenger flotation stages
Investigation of reverse flotation, a fairly standard treatment for phosphate flotation
Parkway Managing Director, Patrick McManus said “The achievement of this separation performance is a step
forward for the Dinner Hill phosphate project. More than 50% of the phosphate was recovered by simple
attritioning and screening at Imm, at a grade of 15 to 20% P2O5. Selective size reduction of this coarse fraction
and selective cleaner/scavenger flotation to improve grades should allow an improved overall recovery, whilst
meeting our final grade targets of +28% P2O5. Elimination, or significant reduction in size, of a grinding circuit
will have a strong impact on both capital and operating costs”.
Next steps
Now we have identified areas where we should see a marked improvement in separation, a larger, and more
representative sample will be used for further testwork to explore the process improvements identified.
For further information contact:
Parkway Minerals NL:
Patrick McManus
Managing Director
Tel: +61 (08) 9479 5386
Email: info@parkwayminerals.com.au
Web: www.parkwayminerals.com.au
About Parkway Minerals
Parkway Minerals (ASX: PWN) is an exploration company focused on developing large greensand deposits in
West Australia’s Perth Basin. The Company aims to define a substantial resource base and investigate how best
to recover phosphate, potash and other minerals from the Dandaragan Trough. The project is well situated in
relation to infrastructure, with close access to rail, power and gas. A successful commercial outcome will allow
the Company to become a major contributor to the potash and phosphate markets at a time of heightened
regional demand.
The Company has a major land holding over one of the world’s largest known glauconite deposits, with
exploration licenses and applications covering an area of over 1,800km2. Previous exploration indicates
glauconite sediments are widespread for more than 150km along strike and 30km in width. A pre-feasibility
study is in progress for stage 1, production of phosphate fertilisers.
The company owns 26% of Davenport Resources, which owns a potash exploration project in the South Harz
region of Thuringia, in Central Germany. The region has been a potash producing area for over 100 years.
Competent Person’s Statements:
The information in this report that relates to exploration activities is based on information compiled by Lindsay
Cahill, who is a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Mr. Cahill is a consultant to the mining
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industry, and has sufficient experience relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under
consideration. He is qualified as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 edition of the “Australasian Code
for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves. This report is issued with Mr. Cahill’s
consent as to the form and context in which the exploration results appears.
The metallurgical information in this report relating to work done at KEMWorks is based on information
compiled by Dr. Francisco J. Sotillo, CIP, PhD, who is a Member of SME and a Qualified Professional in
Metallurgy/Processing of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America (MMSA) under the National
Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101), Section 1.5. Dr. Sotillo has sufficient experience relevant to the activity being
undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the “Australasian Code for
Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves”. Dr. Sotillo is a consultant to the mining
industry and a consultant to KEMWorks. This report is issued with Dr. Sotillo’s consent as to the form and
context in which the results appear.
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Attachments
Appendix 1: JORC Code 2012 Edition – Table 1
Appendix 2: Sample Drill Hole Location
APPENDIX 1 - JORC CODE, 2012 EDITION – TABLE 1
Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data
Criteria
JORC Code Explanation
Commentary
Sampling
techniques
Nature and quality of sampling (eg cut
channels, random chips, or specific specialised
industry
standard
measurement
tools
appropriate to the minerals under investigation,
such as down hole gamma sondes, or handheld
XRF instruments, etc). These examples should
not be taken as limiting the broad meaning of
sampling.
Include reference to measures taken to
ensure sample representivity and the
appropriate calibration of any measurement
tools or systems used.
Aspects of the determination of
mineralisation that are Material to the Public
Report.
In cases where ‘industry standard’ work
has been done this would be relatively simple
(eg ‘reverse circulation drilling was used to
obtain 1 m samples from which 3kg was
pulverised to produce a 30g charge for fire
assay’). In other cases more explanation may be
required, such as where there is coarse gold that
has inherent sampling problems. Unusual
commodities or mineralisation types (eg
submarine nodules) may warrant disclosure of
detailed information.
Drill type (eg core, reverse circulation,
open-hole hammer, rotary air blast, auger,
Bangka, sonic, etc) and details (eg core
diameter, triple or standard tube, depth of
diamond tails, face-sampling bit or other type,
whether core is oriented and if so, by what
method, etc)
Method of recording and assessing core
and chip sample recoveries and results
assessed.
Measures taken to maximise sample
recovery and ensure representative nature of the
samples.
Whether a relationship exists between
sample recovery and grade and whether sample
bias may have occurred due to preferential
loss/gain of fine/coarse material.
Whether core and chip samples have
been geologically and geotechnically logged to a
level of detail to support appropriate Mineral
Samples
for
metallurgical
programs were obtained from NQ air core
drill holes drilled as a twin hole (within 5m)
of a Mineral Resource drill hole.
Metallurgical drill holes were
visually logged to confirm the lithology of
the target samples.
Metallurgical drill holes were not
assayed and not used in the estimation of
Mineral Resources
Lithological and assay data from
the primary mineral resource NQ air core
drill hole was used to inform the target
sample selection intervals for the
metallurgical drill hole
Drilling
techniques
Drill
sample
recovery
Logging
Vertical NQ Air-core
Clay content of moist greensands
ensured
acceptable
recovery
and
retention of all size fractions;
Holes were conditioned at
completion and cyclone opened and
cleaned before the next hole was drilled.
Lithological and assay data from
the primary mineral resource NQ air core
drill hole was used to inform the target
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Criteria
Subsampling
techniques
and sample
preparation
Quality of
assay data
and
laboratory
tests
Verification
of
sampling
and
assaying
Location of
data points
Data
spacing
and
distribution
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JORC Code Explanation
Commentary
Resource estimation, mining studies and
metallurgical studies.
Whether logging is qualitative or
quantitative in nature. Core (or costean, channel,
etc) photography.
The total length and percentage of the
relevant intersections logged.
If core, whether cut or sawn and whether
quarter, half or all core taken.
If non-core, whether riffled, tube
sampled, rotary split, etc and whether sampled
wet or dry.
For all sample types, the nature, quality
and appropriateness of the sample preparation
technique.
Quality control procedures adopted for
all
sub-sampling
stages
to
maximise
representivity of samples.
Measures taken to ensure that the
sampling is representative of the in situ material
collected, including for instance results for field
duplicate/second-half sampling.
Whether sample sizes are appropriate
to the grain size of the material being sampled.
The nature, quality and appropriateness
of the assaying and laboratory procedures used
and whether the technique is considered partial
or total.
For geophysical tools, spectrometers,
handheld XRF instruments, etc, the parameters
used in determining the analysis including
instrument make and model, reading times,
calibrations factors applied and their derivation,
etc.
Nature of quality control procedures
adopted (eg standards, blanks, duplicates,
external laboratory checks) and whether
acceptable levels of accuracy (ie lack of bias)
and precision have been established.
The
verification
of
significant
intersections by either independent or alternative
company personnel.
The use of twinned holes.
Documentation of primary data, data
entry procedures, data verification, data storage
(physical and electronic) protocols.
Discuss any adjustment to assay data.
Accuracy and quality of surveys used to
locate drill holes (collar and down-hole surveys),
trenches, mine workings and other locations
used in Mineral Resource estimation.
Specification of the grid system used.
Quality and adequacy of topographic
control.
Data spacing for reporting of Exploration
Results.
Whether the data spacing and
distribution is sufficient to establish the degree of
sample selection intervals
metallurgical drill hole
for
the
The total sample return for each
metre of advance was collected direct from
the drill rig cyclone into a plastic bag.
Metallurgical holes were not
assayed
The twinned resource drill hole
had sample analysis by Genalysis
Laboratory Services Pty Ltd by Phosphate
Major Element Suite FB1 method (XRF
after lithium borate fusion).
Sampling and visual confirmation
of target horizons supervised by company
geologist.
Holes located by hand held GPS.
Grid MGA_GDA94, Zone 50.
Elevation data is based on a
topographic contour set produced from
SRTM imagery at 5m vertical resolution.
Not relevant – holes not used for
Mineral Resource estimation
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Criteria
JORC Code Explanation
Orientation
of data in
relation to
geological
structure
Sample
security
geological and grade continuity appropriate for
the Mineral Resource and Ore Reserve
estimation procedure(s) and classifications
applied.
Whether sample compositing has been
applied.
Whether the orientation of sampling
achieves unbiased sampling of possible
structures and the extent to which this is known,
considering the deposit type.
If the relationship between the drilling
orientation and the orientation of key mineralised
structures is considered to have introduced a
sampling bias, this should be assessed and
reported if material.
The measures taken to ensure sample
security.
Audits or
reviews
The results of any audits or reviews of
sampling techniques and data.
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Commentary
Vertical drilling through virtually
horizontal
stratigraphy
resulted
in
intersected thicknesses equivalent to true
thickness.
Samples bagged and labelled by
Parkway Minerals NL personnel.
Samples transported to laboratory
by approved commercial contractor.
Historical sample techniques,
logs, and data reviewed positively by
independent consultant geologist.
Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results
Criteria
JORC Code Explanation
Commentary
Mineral
tenement and
land tenure
status
Type, reference name/number,
location
and
ownership
including
agreements or material issues with third
parties such as joint ventures, partnerships,
overriding royalties, native title interests,
historical sites, wilderness or national park
and environmental settings.
The security of the tenure held at
the time of reporting along with any known
impediments to obtaining a licence to
operate in the area.
Acknowledgment and appraisal of
exploration by other parties.
E70/3987 is held and operated by
Parkway Minerals NL
The drilling in E70/3987 is located
on private freehold land owned and
compensation agreements have been
signed, with the mineral sub-surface rights
subsequently being granted both above
and below 30m below surface.
Geology
Deposit type, geological setting
and style of mineralisation.
The phosphate is present as
fluorapatite
nodules
and
grains
concentrated within particular horizons of
horizontal greensand and chalk formations;
The potash is present as the
mineral glauconite, which is a major
constituent of the Molecap and Poison Hill
Greensands and a minor constituent of the
Gingin Chalk.
Drill hole
Information
A summary of all information
material to the understanding of the
exploration results including a tabulation of
Exploration
done by other
parties
Exploration for phosphate in the
Dandaragan Trough dates back to the
1940’s.
See Appendix 2.
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Criteria
Data
aggregation
methods
Relationship
between
mineralisation
widths and
intercept
lengths
Diagrams
Balanced
reporting
Other
substantive
JORC Code Explanation
the following information for all Material drill
holes:
o
easting and northing of the drill hole
collar
o
elevation or RL (Reduced Level –
elevation above sea level in metres) of the
drill hole collar
o
dip and azimuth of the hole
o
down hole length and interception
depth
o
hole length.
If the exclusion of this information is
justified on the basis that the information is
not Material and this exclusion does not
detract from the understanding of the
report, the Competent Person should
clearly explain why this is the case.
In reporting Exploration Results,
weighting averaging techniques, maximum
and/or minimum grade truncations (eg
cutting of high grades) and cut-off grades
are usually Material and should be stated.
Where
aggregate
intercepts
incorporate short lengths of high grade
results and longer lengths of low grade
results, the procedure used for such
aggregation should be stated and some
typical examples of such aggregations
should be shown in detail.
The assumptions used for any
reporting of metal equivalent values should
be clearly stated.
These relationships are particularly
important in the reporting of Exploration
Results.
If
the
geometry
of
the
mineralisation with respect to the drill hole
angle is known, its nature should be
reported.
If it is not known and only the down
hole lengths are reported, there should be
a clear statement to this effect (eg ‘down
hole length, true width not known’).
Appropriate maps and sections
(with scales) and tabulations of intercepts
should be included for any significant
discovery being reported These should
include, but not be limited to a plan view of
drill hole collar locations and appropriate
sectional views.
Where comprehensive reporting of
all Exploration Results is not practicable,
representative reporting of both low and
high grades and/or widths should be
practiced to avoid misleading reporting of
Exploration Results.
Other
exploration
data,
if
meaningful and material, should be
reported including (but not limited to):
geological
observations;
geophysical
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Commentary
Not relevant – holes not used for
Mineral Resource estimation
Vertical drilling through virtually
horizontal
stratigraphy
resulted
in
intersected thicknesses equivalent to true
thickness.
Diagrams are included in the
report.
Not relevant – holes not used for
Mineral Resource estimation
There is no unreported substantive
exploration data.
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Criteria
JORC Code Explanation
exploration
data
survey results; geochemical survey results;
bulk samples – size and method of
treatment; metallurgical test results; bulk
density, groundwater, geotechnical and
rock characteristics; potential deleterious or
contaminating substances.
The nature and scale of planned
further work (eg tests for lateral extensions
or depth extensions or large-scale step-out
drilling).
Diagrams clearly highlighting the
areas of possible extensions, including the
main geological interpretations and future
drilling areas, provided this information is
not commercially sensitive.
Further work
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Commentary
Additional metallurgical sampling
will be undertaken as necessary
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APPENDIX 2 – DRILL HOLE LOCATION DETAILS
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Grid is GDA 94 Zone 50
All holes are driller vertical
Collar coordinates determined by hand held GPS
Hole
PWAC462
PWAC464
PWAC466
East (m)
370,155
370,758
370,566
North (m)
6,635,202
6,636,607
6,638,405
RL (m)
345
357
365
RL (m)
33
42
40
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