Great Quest Metals Ltd.: Mali Agricultural Product Demonstrations an Overwhelming Success
19 February 2014 - 1:53AM
Marketwired
Great Quest Metals Ltd.: Mali Agricultural Product Demonstrations
an Overwhelming Success
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Feb 18, 2014) -
Great Quest Metals Ltd. (the "Company" or "Great Quest")
(TSX-VENTURE:GQ)(FRANKFURT:GQM) is pleased to announce that it is
in receipt of the quantitative results from the product trials
discussed in the November 21, 2013 Press Release. The
demonstrations have been a tremendous success, showing that the
Great Quest's direct application fertilizer is an effective
replacement for much costlier imported chemical phosphate across
the full range of crops and regions of Mali.
The study comprised 27 agronomic trials covering the five major
agro-ecological climatic regions of Mali, where large-scale
commercial agriculture occurs. The comprehensive trials provided
results for all of Mali's most important crops: cotton, maize
(corn), rice (irrigated, upland and lowland varieties), millet,
sorghum, cowpea (or black-eyed pea), and peanuts using GQ blends of
enriched high grade (35% P2O5) and enriched medium grade (27%
P2O5).
Following are some of the most compelling results, with the full
work to be published shortly on completion of the report by the
Institute for Rural Economic Development ("IER"), the Company's
Malian government research partner.
The crop demonstrations were performed to compare our new
enriched processed blends, the commonly used chemical blend NPK
15-15-15, and the unprocessed natural powdered phosphate rock. The
natural powder is crushed rock from the Tilemsi project with no
beneficiation and no solubility agents. It is known to be a good
fertilizer but historically has not been fully effective in the
first year of use. The expected result was for the unprocessed
powder to be the least productive, the diammonium phosphate to be
the most productive and the GQ formulations to perform better than
the unprocessed, but not as well as the diammonium chemical
phosphate. However in many cases the GQ blends out performed the
chemical fertilizer, and in several cases the natural powder
performed in line with the chemical fertilizer.
Some complications with the addition of potash during sample
preparation resulted in low potash quantities in the test blends.
This has put the GQ blends at a disadvantage compared to the
chemical blend, however the GQ blends still performed comparably.
This is likely because the organic nature of the phosphate allowed
the nutrient to be used more efficiently by the plants,
compensating in terms of yield for the low level of potash. Sulfur
and boron were added to some blends as solubility agents.
Example 1
Corn from the Sikasso Region, NPK formulation using diammonium
phosphate versus NPK using GQ 35% direct application phosphate
rock. The GQ enriched blends showed higher crop yields up to 3,858
kg/ha compared to diammonium phosphate based blends of 2,156 kg/ha,
and up to 4098 kg/ha when solubility agents are added to the GQ
blends.
|
Phosphate Used |
Quantity (kg/ha) |
N (%) |
P (%) |
K (%) |
S (%) |
B (%) |
Yield (kg/ha) |
|
Diammonium Phosphate Chemical |
100 |
15 |
15 |
15 |
|
|
2,156 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate |
100 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
|
|
3,858 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate |
150 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
|
|
3,151 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate |
200 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
|
|
3,082 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur |
100 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
|
3,262 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur |
150 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
|
3,216 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur |
200 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
|
3,968 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur + Boron |
100 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
.2 |
4,098 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur + Boron |
150 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
.2 |
2,830 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur + Boron |
200 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
.2 |
3,437 |
|
Unprocessed Tilemsi Phos Rock Powder |
300 |
|
24 |
|
|
|
2,597 |
Example 2
Rain watered Rice from the Bamako Region, NPK formulation using
diammonium phosphate versus NPK using GQ 35% direct application
phosphate rock. The GQ enriched blends showed yields up to 2,224
kg/ha compared with 1,751 kg/ha for diammonium phosphate based
blends.
|
Phosphate Used |
Quantity (kg/ha) |
N (%) |
P (%) |
K (%) |
S (%) |
B (%) |
Yield (kg/ha) |
|
Diammonium Phosphate Chemical |
100 |
15 |
15 |
15 |
|
|
1751 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate |
100 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
|
|
2192 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate |
150 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
|
|
1958 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate |
200 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
|
|
1940 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur |
100 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
|
2155 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur |
150 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
|
2076 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur |
200 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
|
1969 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur + Boron |
100 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
.2 |
2221 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur + Boron |
150 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
.2 |
2214 |
|
GQ 35% Phosphate + Sulfur + Boron |
200 |
11 |
18 |
2 |
1 |
.2 |
2224 |
|
Unprocessed Tilemsi Phos Rock Powder |
300 |
|
24 |
|
|
|
1728 |
Example 3
Peanuts from the Kita Region, using diammonium phosphate versus
GQ 27% direct application phosphate rock used in isolation with no
added nitrogen or potash fertilizer. Diammonium phosphate
incorporates some nitrogen into the fertilizer and is considered a
one stop shop for some farmers. However, head to head the GQ medium
grade granule showed yields up to 1436 kg/ha compared to 904 kg/ha
for diammonium phosphate.
|
Phosphate Used |
Quantity (kg/ha) |
N (%) |
P (%) |
K (%) |
S (%) |
Yield (kg/ha) |
|
Diammonium Phosphate Chemical |
65 |
18 |
46 |
|
|
904 |
|
GQ 27% Phosphate |
100 |
|
27 |
|
|
629 |
|
GQ 27% Phosphate |
150 |
|
27 |
|
|
1200 |
|
GQ 27% Phosphate |
200 |
|
27 |
|
|
1258 |
|
GQ 27% Phosphate + Sulfur |
100 |
|
27 |
|
1 |
950 |
|
GQ 27% Phosphate + Sulfur |
150 |
|
27 |
|
1 |
835 |
|
GQ 27% Phosphate + Sulfur |
200 |
|
27 |
|
1 |
1424 |
|
GQ 27% Phosphate + M4 Bacteria |
100 |
|
27 |
|
|
1013 |
|
GQ 27% Phosphate + M4 Bacteria |
150 |
|
27 |
|
|
1436 |
|
GQ 27% Phosphate + M4 Bacteria |
200 |
|
27 |
|
|
1394 |
|
Unprocessed Tilemsi Phos Rock Powder |
300 |
|
24 |
|
|
794 |
The significant yields shown in these results for the GQ - IER
agronomic demonstrations provide further impetus to the development
of a range of products from the Great Quest Tilemsi phosphate
resource, for agriculture in Mali and West Africa.
The technical information of this news release has been reviewed
and approved by Jed Diner (P. Geol), a qualified person for the
purposes of National Instrument 43-101.
About Great Quest
Great Quest Metals Ltd. is a Canadian mineral exploration
company focused on the development of African agricultural mineral
projects for local production of farm ready fertilizers. The
Company's flagship asset is the Tilemsi Phosphate Project,
encompassing 1,206 km² in northeastern Mali, containing high
quality phosphate resources amenable to use as direct application
fertilizer. Great Quest is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under
the symbol GQ, and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol
GQM.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF GREAT QUEST METALS
LTD.
Jed Richardson, President, Chief Executive Officer and
Director
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services
Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of
this release. The statements that are not historical facts and are
forward-looking statements involving known and unknown risks and
uncertainties could cause actual results to vary materially from
the targeted results. We seek safe harbor.
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