# Emerita Reports Albion Process Achieves 81% Gold and 96% Silver Recovery from Post Flotation Material Samples at IBW Project

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/emerita-reports-albion-process-achieves-81-gold-and-96-silver-recovery-from-post--f0579b0c-4bd6-4b9f-a1c8-18e90628a45b

Original source: https://money.tmx.com/en/quote/EMO/news/6247324147727440/emerita-reports-albion-process-achieves-81-gold-and-96-silver-recovery-from-post

Publisher: tmx

Original announcement: 2026-03-02T13:11:49.000Z

Analysis by Minestarters Atlas

Atlas analysis published: Unknown date

Atlas analysis updated: Unknown date

- Company: Emerita Resources Corp.

- Ticker: EMO

- Exchange: TSX

- Region: Spain

- Primary commodity: Gold

- Secondary commodities: Silver

- Document categories: Metallurgy

- Extracted: 2026-08-21 10:33:17 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.80 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Emerita reported metallurgical test results for its IBW Project using the Albion hydrometallurgical process, achieving 81% gold and 96% silver recovery from post-flotation material. This represents a significant improvement in silver recovery compared to the previously evaluated pyrometallurgical CLEVR process.

Reasoning: The Albion Process achieved high silver recovery \(96%\) compared to the previous 64% reported for the CLEVR process, while maintaining comparable gold recovery \(~81%\).

- Positive factor: Significant improvement in silver recovery compared to previous pyrometallurgical route

- Positive factor: Comparable gold recovery to previous technology

- Positive factor: Use of commercially proven Albion Process

- Positive factor: Reduces metallurgical risk by providing two viable processing alternatives

- Negative factor: Results are from post-flotation material, not whole-of-ore

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: 96% silver recovery is exceptional for a post-flotation stage.

Evidence · text

> 96% recovery of silver

**Mill Route**

Polarity: neutral

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

Why it applies: The Albion process involves ultra-fine grinding and oxidative leaching.

Evidence · text

> based on ultra-fine grinding and oxidative leaching

## Extracted facts

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

## Metallurgical Results (2)

### Albion Process

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/emerita-reports-albion-process-achieves-81-gold-and-96-silver-recovery-from-post--f0579b0c-4bd6-4b9f-a1c8-18e90628a45b#fact-metallurgical-facts-0)

IBW Project · gold

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Project: IBW Project
- Commodity: gold
- Ticker: EMO

#### Test Work

- Program Status: detailed
- Test Type: Albion Process
- Processing Route: Albion Process \(ultrafine grinding, atmospheric oxidation, oxidative neutral leaching, CIP\)
- Sample: post flotation material samples at IBW Project

#### Recovery

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

#### Lab

- Laboratory: CORE Resources

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-03-02T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Gold recovery is consistent with previous technology tested.

- Positive factor: Comparable to previous 81.5% gold recovery

Evidence · text

> achieved 81% recovery of gold

### Albion Process

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-staging.minestarters.com/news/emerita-reports-albion-process-achieves-81-gold-and-96-silver-recovery-from-post--f0579b0c-4bd6-4b9f-a1c8-18e90628a45b#fact-metallurgical-facts-1)

IBW Project · silver

Historical result

Needs review: historical\_restatement

#### Identity

- Project: IBW Project
- Commodity: silver
- Ticker: EMO

#### Test Work

- Program Status: detailed
- Test Type: Albion Process
- Processing Route: Albion Process \(ultrafine grinding, atmospheric oxidation, oxidative neutral leaching, CIP\)
- Sample: post flotation material samples at IBW Project

#### Recovery

- Recovery: 96 %
- Recovery Basis: actual\_test

#### Lab

- Laboratory: CORE Resources

#### Review

- Needs Review: Yes
- Review Reason: historical\_restatement
- Historical: Yes
- Historical Source Date: 2025-05-27T00:00:00.000Z

#### Dates

- Event date: 2026-03-02T00:00:00.000Z

Reasoning: Silver recovery improved from 64% to 96% using the Albion route.

- Positive factor: Significant increase in silver recovery vs previous 64% reported

Evidence · text

> 96% recovery of silver

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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