# Canagold Resources Successfully Produces Physical Antimony Metal Grading over 99% Sb from New Polaris Concentrate

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/canagold-resources-successfully-produces-physical-antimony-metal-grading-over-99--253eed37-6911-4b9d-92f8-5b54287d8044

Original source: https://www.juniorminingnetwork.com/junior-miner-news/press-releases/1107-tsx/ccm/212378-canagold-successfully-produces-physical-antimony-metal-grading-over-99-sb-from-new-polaris-concentrate.html

Publisher: jmn

Original announcement: 2026-10-06T12:16:20.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: 2026-10-06T12:27:51.675Z

Atlas analysis updated: 2026-10-06T12:27:51.675Z

- Company: Canagold Resources Ltd.

- Ticker: CCM

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: British Columbia

- Primary commodity: Antimony

- Secondary commodities: Gold

- Document categories: Metallurgy

- Extracted: 2026-10-06 12:27:52 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.80 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Canagold Resources has successfully produced physical antimony metal grading over 99% Sb from its New Polaris project concentrate. The refining process, using alkaline sulphide leach and electrowinning, achieved a 99.7% antimony leach extraction rate.

Reasoning: The successful conversion of concentrate to high-purity metal is a major technical milestone that de-risks the project's ability to capture more value from the antimony stream.

- Positive factor: Successful production of high-purity \(>99%\) antimony metal

- Positive factor: High leach extraction efficiency \(99.7%\)

- Positive factor: Demonstrated technical pathway to value-added refined product

- Positive factor: Reduces reliance on third-party smelters

Facts used in scoring: 2

## Classification and evidence

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

Definition: Recovery at or above the exceptional band for the commodity and processing route.

Why it applies: 99.7% antimony leach extraction is exceptional.

Evidence · text

> achieved 99.7% antimony leach extraction

**Mill Route**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Processing via mill or concentrator \(CIL, CIP, tank leach, flotation\).

Why it applies: The process involves an alkaline sulphide leach and electrowinning.

Evidence · text

> Using an alkaline sulphide leach followed by electrowinning

**Single Domain Only**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Testing limited to one composite or domain — representativeness not established.

Why it applies: only one composite was tested

## Extracted facts

Stored fact records: 2. Some facts used in scoring do not have a stored record.

## Metallurgical Results (2)

### refining test work

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/canagold-resources-successfully-produces-physical-antimony-metal-grading-over-99--253eed37-6911-4b9d-92f8-5b54287d8044#fact-metallurgical-facts-0)

New Polaris · antimony

#### Identity

- Project: New Polaris
- Commodity: antimony
- Region: canada\_bc
- Reported Region: British Columbia
- Ticker: CCM

#### Test Work

- Program Status: detailed
- Test Type: refining test work
- Processing Route: alkaline sulphide leach followed by electrowinning
- Sample: New Polaris antimony-gold concentrate

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 99.7 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test
- Head Grade: 59.1
- Head Grade Unit: %
- Conc. Grade: 99.7
- Conc. Grade Unit: %

#### Lab

- Laboratory: Core Metallurgy Pty Ltd.
- Consultant: Core Metallurgy Pty Ltd.

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: 99.7% extraction is an exceptional result for the leach stage of the refining process.

- Positive factor: High leach extraction efficiency

- Positive factor: Successful production of high-purity metal

Evidence · text

> achieved 99.7% antimony leach extraction and produced antimony metal grading greater than 99% Sb

### Fact 2

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/canagold-resources-successfully-produces-physical-antimony-metal-grading-over-99--253eed37-6911-4b9d-92f8-5b54287d8044#fact-metallurgical-facts-1)

New Polaris · gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Project: New Polaris
- Commodity: gold
- Region: canada\_bc
- Reported Region: British Columbia
- Ticker: CCM

#### Test Work

- Sample: New Polaris antimony-gold concentrate

#### Recovery

- Head Grade: 98.3
- Head Grade Unit: g/t

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2025-10-01T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-10-06T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: This is a restatement of the concentrate grade from a previous release.

Evidence · text

> high-grade gold-antimony concentrate assaying 59.1% Sb and 98.3 g/t Au \(see news release dated October 1, 2025\)

## How Atlas produces this analysis

Minestarters Atlas uses automated extraction to summarize mining announcements, identify reported measurements, and classify supporting evidence. Sentiment reflects the extracted narrative and classification rules; it is an interpretation, not a reported measurement. Evidence quotes and context are provided where available. Missing data, low-confidence results, and review flags indicate limitations. Check the original publisher announcement before relying on an interpretation.