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

Canonical Atlas analysis: https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/emergent-metals-corp-reports-cyanide-recoveries-of-81-for-gold-and-60-for-silver--29f0b6b9-caa0-4f03-9fdb-d181a45de0ad

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, Other

- Extracted: 2026-09-13 22:43:26 UTC

Narrative sentiment: 0.60 · Bullish

## Minestarters Atlas summary

Emergent Metals Corp. announced metallurgical test results from the West Santa Fe Property in Nevada, showing cyanide extractable gold averages 81% and silver averages 60%. These results, conducted on pulp samples from a 2025 RC drilling program, suggest the deposit is amenable to heap leach processing.

Reasoning: The reported cyanide recoveries \(81% Au, 60% Ag\) are high and support the project's potential for heap leach processing, though further optimization is needed.

- Positive factor: High cyanide extraction ratios for both gold and silver

- Positive factor: Results corroborate and validate historic metallurgical test work

- Positive factor: Demonstrates potential for heap leach processing

- Negative factor: Additional metallurgical test work required to optimize recovery

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 gold and silver recoveries utilizing CN heap leach processing.

Evidence · text

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

**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)

### cyanide leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/emergent-metals-corp-reports-cyanide-recoveries-of-81-for-gold-and-60-for-silver--29f0b6b9-caa0-4f03-9fdb-d181a45de0ad#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 leach
- 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 considered a high ratio for these samples.

- Positive factor: High extraction ratio

Evidence · text

> CN extractable gold averaged 81%

#### Tags used in scoring

**Heap Leach Route**

Polarity: neutral

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

Why it applies: processing\_route matches the heap\_leach signal

**High Recovery**

Polarity: positive

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

Why it applies: 81% is at or above the exceptional band \(75%\)

### cyanide leach

[Link to this fact](https://atlas-extractions.minestarters.com/news/emergent-metals-corp-reports-cyanide-recoveries-of-81-for-gold-and-60-for-silver--29f0b6b9-caa0-4f03-9fdb-d181a45de0ad#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 leach
- 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 CN extraction ratio for silver.

- Positive factor: High extraction ratio for silver

Evidence · text

> CN extractable silver averaged 60%

#### Tags used in scoring

**Heap Leach Route**

Polarity: neutral

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

Why it applies: processing\_route matches the heap\_leach signal

**Low Recovery**

Polarity: negative

Definition: Recovery below the weak band for the commodity and processing route.

Why it applies: 60% is below the weak band \(75%\)

## How Atlas produces this analysis

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