Kendrick Resources (LSE:KEN) has commenced metallurgical test work on mineralisation from its Teufelskuppe project, engaging German consultancy Anzaplan to conduct early-stage assessment work.
The AIM-listed rare earths explorer will send Anzaplan, part of the Dorfner Group, three bulk samples from the Namibian project for Mineral Liberation Analysis, aimed at determining recovery rates for light rare earth oxides.
Anzaplan has also received Kendrick's petrological analysis, conducted by independent US-based experts, with the dispatched samples representing dykes, sills and breccia drawn from the eight major structures making up the Teufelskuppe carbonatite complex.
"We are very pleased to be working with Anzaplan, and we look forward to the results of the Mineral Liberation Analysis study", said Colin Bird, Kendrick's chairman. He added that the work will feed into further studies and optimisation toward a processing flow sheet.
The test work sits alongside Kendrick's continuing verification of its in-house mineral resource estimate against JORC 2012 standards, first flagged in the company's development plan published on 6 May.
Diamond and reverse circulation drilling is also ongoing to establish the depth and lateral extent of carbonatite mineralisation beneath the surface.
The company is progressing JORC certification of the 14 million tonne surface resource estimate announced on 11 May, with recent drilling results supporting Kendrick's view that this represents a fraction of the total mineable resource.
News Intelligence what this means for the company
Kendrick Resources has engaged Anzaplan to conduct Mineral Liberation Analysis on three bulk samples from Teufelskuppe, aimed at determining recovery rates for light rare earth oxides. This is an early-stage processing study feeding into flowsheet development, running in parallel with ongoing metallurgical testwork and JORC resource certification of the 14 million tonne surface estimate announced in May.
The engagement of an external consultant for MLA represents a step toward processing optimization, but remains exploratory work on a resource not yet JORC-certified. The study's value depends entirely on the recovery rates it yields—no timeline for results is stated, and the company is still verifying its resource estimate against JORC 2012 standards.
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