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Doubleview Achieves Initial 56% Scandium Recovery in First Metallurgical Test of Hat Deposit Flotation Tailings – Potentially the First Major Source of Scandium in N. America

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Vancouver, BC, Feb 7, 2023 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Doubleview Gold Corp. (TSXV: DBG) (OTCQB: DBLVF) (FSE: 1D4) ("Doubleview") is pleased to announce that its first attempt at recovering scandium in a sequential purification process has recovered 56% (fifty six percent) of scandium in tailings from its Hat Copper, Gold, Cobalt property. Scandium was recovered as a phosphate precipitate by treating flotation tailings extraction solution from metallurgical test work on Hat mineralization. The Hat property is located in the Golden Triangle region of Atlin Mining District, Northern British Columbia.Cu Rougher 1st flotation stageBulk Cu-Co, 2nd Cleaner Flotation StagePrecipitateScandium phosphate is a high value product that currently trades for approximately $35 per 1 gram lot, in comparison to gold which currently trades at approximately $60 per gram.Earlier scandium extraction test work aimed at the recovery of scandium from Hat deposit flotation tailings demonstrated that it was possible to extract 90% of scandium to solution by employing a sulphate leach at elevated temperatures.Test work has now moved into the scandium recovery-optimization phase, with sequential purif...

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Recovered Covid-19 patients to get one vaccine dose to boost immunity

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SINGAPORE - People who have recovered from Covid-19 and with more than six months since their infection will get priority for a single-dose of the vaccine. This is because they are likely to still have a strong immune response within the first six months of infection, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Thursday (June 10). Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Thursday that experts have recommended that those who have recovered should receive a single dose of vaccine to further boost their immunity against Covid-19. Recovered Covid-19 patients should take vaccine: MOH | THE BIG STORY Such recovered people will be able to register from today if they are part of a population group that is already eligible for vaccination. Singapore has recorded more than 62,200 Covid-19 cases as at Thursday, including more than 54,500 dormitory residents, and 34 have died from complications due to Covid-19 infection. Several studies have reportedly indicated that people who have had Covid-19 generate an extremely strong response to the first dose of an mRNA vaccine, with apparently little further boost from the second dose. A paper by the Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles in the United Sta...