Appointment of Advertising and marketing Managerto Speed up Product Improvement
Empire has appointed Mr. Michael Tamlin as Advertising and marketing Supervisor, which is aligned with the Firm’s goal to optimise product improvement, assess industrial course of flowsheet choices and progress the Venture towards a feasibility examine.
Additional strengthening the Firm’s in-house product improvement capabilities. Mr. Tamlin is a metallurgist with over 30 years’ expertise within the sources sector, together with senior roles in advertising and commercialising mineral merchandise. Most lately, he served as Head of Lithium at Neometals Ltd, the place he was liable for managing the pilot improvement and commercialisation of the ELi™ lithium hydroxide manufacturing course of in three way partnership with Mineral Assets Ltd. His experience might be instrumental in constructing Pitfield’s product technique and fascinating with potential end-users in high-value titanium markets.
Persevering with Partnership with TiPMC Consulting:
Empire has prolonged its consultancy settlement with TiPMC, a extremely revered, US-based titanium trade consultancy. TiPMC will present oversight of the titanium pigment and metallic markets and supply steerage to the Firm’s technical and advertising group as they proceed to develop the processing flowsheet and optimise the merchandise.
Commenting on the announcement, Shaun Bunn, Managing Director, stated:
“I’m delighted to welcome Michael to our group. His intensive advertising experience might be invaluable as we transfer towards defining the financial potential and product technique for Pitfield. This appointment marks an vital subsequent step in the direction of constructing a powerful, in-house group, an method which has been key to our profitable and fast progress.
“We’re additionally more than happy to proceed to be working with TiPMC Consulting, whose popularity and expertise within the titanium trade is unparalleled.”
Product Improvement Replace
Preliminary outcomes from the large-scale metallurgical testwork programme, involving mineral separation strategies that required bulk feed samples of between roughly 0.5 to 1.5 tonnes every, was introduced on 28 August 2025. The majority testwork programme is progressing effectively, specializing in ore scrubbing, desliming and gravity spiral testwork, in addition to flotation testwork on each the fines fraction, separated within the desliming step, and entire of ore samples. Giant scale scrubbing and spiral gravity testwork has been accomplished on Thomas and Cosgrove weathered sandstone bulk samples and the screened fines have been despatched for flotation testwork. As a part of this programme, mineral concentrates might be produced for downstream processing, testing each hydrometallurgical and product ending flowsheet ideas.
This bulk testwork programme will produce important volumes of concentrates which can feed into the product improvement and optimisation testwork and lead to bigger product samples which could be delivered to potential finish customers for evaluation. The function of Advertising and marketing Supervisor might be basic to figuring out these potential finish customers and for the event of a excessive worth buyer base for quite a lot of titanium merchandise from Pitfield.
The Advertising and marketing Supervisor can even be liable for conducting market analysis, specializing in excessive worth finish makes use of and certain shoppers, making ready a Advertising and marketing Technique and Advertising and marketing Presentation for the Venture and for figuring out key clients and appropriate product suites upfront of sending out advertising enquiries and product samples.
About TiPMC Consulting
TiPMC Consulting supplies unbiased consulting analyses, views and proposals for monetary in addition to trade features and segments. Their experience consists of thorough evaluations of enterprise information in addition to the operational, technical, and advertising functionalities for mining, metals, pigments, and chemical trade segments.
Their trade shoppers acknowledge the worth of their incisive give attention to the TiO2 worth chain in addition to related companies, together with thorough evaluations of fluorochemicals, fluoropolymers, titanium metallic and alloys, costings, and different industries related to the titanium worth chain.
The Pitfield Titanium Venture
Positioned throughout the Mid-West area of Western Australia, close to the northern wheatbelt city of Three Springs, the Pitfield titanium undertaking lies 313km north of Perth and 156km southeast of Geraldton, the Mid West area’s capital and main port. Western Australia is a Tier 1 mining jurisdiction and has mining-friendly insurance policies, steady authorities, transparency, and superior know-how experience. Pitfield has current connections to port (each highway & rail), HV energy substations, and is close by to pure gasoline pipelines (refer Determine 2).
Determine 2. Pitfield Venture Location exhibiting theMid-West Area Infrastructure and Providers.
Competent Individual Assertion
The scientific and technical info on this report that pertains to course of metallurgy is predicated on info reviewed by Ms Narelle Marriott, an worker of Empire Metals Australia Pty Ltd, a completely owned subsidiary of Empire. Ms Marriott is a member of the AusIMM and has adequate expertise related to the model of mineralisation and kind of deposit into consideration and to the exercise being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Individual as outlined within the JORC Code 2012. Ms. Marriott consents to the inclusion on this announcement of the issues based mostly on their info within the kind and context during which it seems.
The technical info on this report that pertains to the geology and exploration of the Pitfield Venture has been compiled by Mr Andrew Faragher, an worker of Empire Metals Australia Pty Ltd, a completely owned subsidiary of Empire. Mr. Faragher is a member of the AusIMM and has adequate expertise that’s related to the model of mineralisation and kind of deposit into consideration and to the exercise being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Individual as outlined within the JORC Code 2012. Mr Faragher consents to the inclusion on this launch of the issues based mostly on his info within the kind and context during which it seems.
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About Empire Metals Restricted
Empire Metals is an AIM-listed and OTCQX-traded exploration and useful resource improvement firm (LON: EEE,OTCQX: EPMLF) with a major give attention to creating Pitfield, an rising large titanium undertaking in Western Australia.
The high-grade titanium discovery at Pitfield is of unprecedented scale, with airborne surveys figuring out an enormous, coincident gravity and magnetics anomaly extending over 40km by 8km by 5km deep. Drill outcomes have indicated wonderful continuity in grades and consistency of the in-situ mineralised beds and ensure that the sandstone beds maintain the higher-grade titanium dioxide (TiO₂) values throughout the interbedded succession of sandstones, siltstones and conglomerates. The Firm is concentrated on two key prospects (Cosgrove and Thomas), which have been recognized as having thick, high-grade, near-surface, in-situ bedded TiO₂ mineralisation, every being over 7km in strike size.
An Exploration Goal* for Pitfield was declared in 2024, overlaying the Thomas and Cosgrove mineral prospects, and was estimated to include between 26.4 to 32.2 billion tonnes with a grade vary of 4.5 to five.5% TiO2. Included throughout the complete Exploration Goal* is a subset that covers the in-situ weathered sandstone zone, which extends from floor to a median vertical depth of 30m to 40m and is estimated to include between 4.0 to 4.9 billion tonnes with a grade vary of 4.8 to five.9% TiO2.
The Exploration Goal* covers an space lower than 20% of the general mineral system at Pitfield which demonstrates the potential for important additional upside.
Empire is now accelerating the financial improvement of Pitfield, with a imaginative and prescient to provide a high-value titanium metallic or pigment high quality product at Pitfield, to grasp the complete worth potential of this distinctive deposit.
The Firm additionally has two additional exploration initiatives in Australia; the Eclipse Venture and the Walton Venture in Western Australia, along with three valuable metals initiatives situated in a traditionally high-grade gold producing area of Austria.
*The potential amount and grade of the Exploration Goal is conceptual in nature. There was inadequate exploration to estimate a Mineral Useful resource and it’s unsure if additional exploration will outcome within the estimation of a Mineral Useful resource. See RNS dated 12 June 2024 for full particulars.
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