# Emergent Metals Corp. Reports Cyanide Recoveries Of 81% For Gold And 60% For Silver From West Santa Fe, NV

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/emergent-metals-corp-reports-cyanide-recoveries-of-81-for-gold-and-60-for-silver--ce1b48aa-f226-48c7-8bb0-56444a756ff2

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/EMR/news/5189288529056014/emergent-metals-corp-reports-cyanide-recoveries-of-81-for-gold-and-60-for-silver

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2026-04-15T22:30:00.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Emergent Metals Corp.

- Ticker: EMR

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Nevada

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Silver

- Document categories: Metallurgy, Agreement transaction

- Extracted: 2026-08-21 10:28:57 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Emergent Metals Corp. announced that metallurgical test work at the West Santa Fe property in Nevada showed cyanide extractable gold recoveries of 81% and silver recoveries of 60%. These results, mimicking heap leach processing, validate historical data and support the project's potential as a satellite or stand-alone operation.

Reasoning: The test work demonstrates high gold cyanide extractability \(81%\) which supports the potential for heap leach processing at West Santa Fe, though silver recovery is lower \(60%\).

- Positive factor: high cyanide extraction for gold

- Positive factor: amenable to heap leach processing

- Positive factor: corroborates historic metallurgical results

- Negative factor: silver recovery is relatively low at 60%

- Negative factor: additional metallurgical test work required

Facts used in scoring: 2

## Classification and evidence

**Heap Leach Route**

Polarity: neutral

Definition: Processing via heap leach — lower CAPEX and OPEX, lower recovery expected.

Why it applies: The test work mimics potential recoveries utilizing CN heap leach processing.

Evidence · text

> mimics potential gold and silver recoveries utilizing CN heap leach processing

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

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

Why it applies: Gold recovery of 81% is described as a very high CN extraction ratio.

Evidence · text

> This is a very high CN extraction ratio

## Extracted facts

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

## Metallurgical Results (2)

### cyanide extraction

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/emergent-metals-corp-reports-cyanide-recoveries-of-81-for-gold-and-60-for-silver--ce1b48aa-f226-48c7-8bb0-56444a756ff2#fact-metallurgical-facts-0)

West Santa Fe · gold

#### Identity

- Project: West Santa Fe
- Commodity: gold
- Region: usa\_nv
- Reported Region: Nevada
- Ticker: EMR

#### Test Work

- Program Status: preliminary
- Test Type: cyanide extraction
- Processing Route: heap leach
- Sample: pulp samples from 2025 RC drilling program

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 81 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-04-15T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: 81% gold recovery via cyanide extraction is described as a very high extraction ratio for this project.

- Positive factor: high CN extraction ratio

- Positive factor: exceeds historic projected recovery

Evidence · text

> CN extractable gold averaged 81%

### cyanide extraction

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/emergent-metals-corp-reports-cyanide-recoveries-of-81-for-gold-and-60-for-silver--ce1b48aa-f226-48c7-8bb0-56444a756ff2#fact-metallurgical-facts-1)

West Santa Fe · silver

#### Identity

- Project: West Santa Fe
- Commodity: silver
- Region: usa\_nv
- Reported Region: Nevada
- Ticker: EMR

#### Test Work

- Program Status: preliminary
- Test Type: cyanide extraction
- Processing Route: heap leach
- Sample: pulp samples from 2025 RC drilling program

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 60 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Review

- Needs Review: No
- Historical: No

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-04-15T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: 60% silver recovery is noted as a high ratio for silver, though numerically lower than the gold recovery.

- Positive factor: high CN extraction ratio for silver

- Negative factor: lower absolute recovery compared to gold

Evidence · text

> CN extractable silver averaged 60%

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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