[Ferro-Alloys.com]Cancana Resources Corp. (CNY) (the "Company" or "Cancana") and its joint venture partner Ferrometals, together Brazil Manganese Corporation ("BMC"), announced the appointment of Ms. Yuki Yamamoto as Director of Sales.

 

Anthony Julien, President & CEO of Cancana stated, "We are very excited to welcome Yuki to the BMC team. Yuki is a seasoned Brazilian mining executive with 20 years experience marketing and selling manganese internationally and in Brazil. Her impact was felt immediately with sample shipments to be delivered immediately to the second largest ferromanganese producer in Brazil."

 

Ms. Yamamoto has tremendous experience in manganese, having worked for Buriturama, the second largest manganese producer in Brazil, and Sumitomo, one of the world's largest integrated metals trading companies. Ms. Yamamoto is a Brazilian citizen and holds an MBA and degree in Chemical Engineering.

 

Manganese Extraction from Primary Veins

 

Operations have exposed vein positions in addition to the previously disclosed open pit at Dnei, including Jaburi 2, Adesvaldo, and Zenilda, an extension of Dnei. The mining faces being exposed are providing useful information on vein style and geometry. Some structures are quite discrete, whereas others have broad stringer and stockwork margins. Different degrees of marginal argillic alteration are observed from prospect to prospect. A number of structures can be seen to taper up-dip (refer to photo from Jaburi 2 below in Figure 2), which has important implications for exploration as not all thickened vein zones may have clear surface expression.

 

The focus of current extraction activities is on the Dnei open pit, where the material is particularly amenable to beneficiation through the current wash plant due to the strong argillic alteration of the breccia material. Options to add a primary crusher to the plant are being considered for 2016, so that material with a harder matrix can be effectively crushed to a size that will suit separation by jigging. These results, combined with planned metallurgical testwork on drill core will be of great value for future resource and mining studies.

 

The plant improvements will allow for more flexibility in the Company's extraction activities. Whilst some large massive blocks have been recovered from Jaburi 2, they cannot be expediently processed through the current plant, needing to be manually broken. The Adesvaldo vein material similarly requires crushing to effectively separate the high tenor manganese mineralization from a harder silicate breccia matrix.

Operational Update: Plants to Operate Through Rainy Season

 

Numerous upgrades at Jaburi have been completed and the plant is fully operational with two shifts. As per Figure 1 below, roof construction is complete to allow for operation during the rainy season, and new jigs have been installed to improve manganese capture. Rejected material from the Rio Madeira plant can now be reprocessed with the new jigs for further manganese extraction.

 

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