"according to the following article 5% of phosphate might be all that Amazon may be shooting for and which they achieved already in today's news:"

Poco, i posted the following on SI and SH as comment on yesterdays news.

There's this interesting tidbit from the Nov 8th release......

"One 30kg sample with a head grade of 3.86% P2O5 was submitted to the metallurgical testing laboratory Nomos, based in Rio de Janeiro. The sample was subjected to preliminary flotation test work which resulted in a concentrate product containing 29.8% P2O5."

would like to know if the hydrometalllurgical processes used in the preliminary flotation tests to accomplish this benefication of the phosphate to the contained level above can be replicated on site on a larger scale.

As per yesterdays release ...:".surface " grab samples from both Alto de Serra and Nau de Guerra averaged 8.2% P2O5
and 6.45% P2O5 respectively, this is encouraging as these grab samples are from the hills and taken at surface from the sides and tops which suggests random at surface out cropping.

Things are looking on track for new horizons.

President & CEO Cristiano Veloso commented “Given the favourable mining factors combined with the positive initial metallurgical testwork (reported in the November 8, 2010 press release), Amazon will explore the possibility of producing conventional fertilizers such as SSP, STP, MAP and DAP from the phosphate at Apatita. In addition, the Company will pursue the possibility of producing an innovative ThermoPotash Phosphate product. Mitsui has been selling ThermoPhosphate in Brazil since the 1960’s. The combination of phosphate with ThermoPotash could substantially increase the potential market for Amazon’s proposed product. Potentially, manufacturing this P-K product would also represent limited additional capital and operational expenditures as both potash and phosphate rocks would be processed in the same rotary kiln already required for ThermoPotash.”