MGX Minerals Engages Hatch Ltd. for Magnesium Metal Study at Driftwood Creek, British Columbia
MGX Minerals Inc. (“MGX” or the “Company”) (CSE:XMG) (FKT:1MG) (OTCQB:MGXMF) is pleased to announce that as a result of the recently announced positive Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) for the production of 161,000 net tonnes per year of magnesium oxide (MgO) at its Driftwood Creek Magnesium Project (“Driftwood Creek” or the “Project”), the Company has engaged engineering firm Hatch Ltd. (“Hatch”) to complete a scoping study for the purpose of selecting appropriate process and associated economics for the upgrading of magnesium oxide to magnesium metal. The Hatch study will evaluate process routes, and order of magnitude capital and operating cost estimates for an initial 10,000 tonne per year (tpy) magnesium plant as well as address various environmental and engineering topics.