Centaurus Metals announced that it has collected a 40 tonne bulk sample from the Itapitanga NickelCobalt Project Joint Venture located in northern Brazil, with the sample on route to Western Australia for its JV partner and battery metal specialist, Simulus Group to undertake Feasibility Studylevel testwork at their demonstration plant in Perth. Since executing an innovative earn-in joint venture agreement with Centaurus in November 2018, the joint venture partners have moved rapidly to advance development of the Itapitanga Project, with Centaurus arranging for delivery of 230kg of variability samples to Simulus in early January for advanced metallurgical test work at their Perth laboratory and the partners jointly completing the bulk sampling program. Under the terms of the joint venture, Centaurus is free carried to a Decision to Mine at Itapitanga with Simulus. Following delivery of the 230kg sample, Simulus initiated the collection of the 40tonne bulk sample, which in turn was completed this week under the supervision of Simulus' Managing Director, Mr. Brett Muller, and Centaurus' Exploration Manager, Mr. Roger Fitzhardinge. The 40tonne bulk sample of nickel and cobalt mineralisation has now departed the Itapitanga site and will be shipped from Belem, northern Brazil to Perth, Western Australia to be run through Simulus' demonstration plant. The shipment time is expected to be 60 days. The bulk sample will provide a sufficiently large and representative ore sample for Feasibility Studylevel flowsheet optimisation to be undertaken, allowing the flowsheet currently being proposed by Simulus to be confirmed and the requisite engineering design data to be collected. The demonstration plant program will also provide batterygrade nickel and cobalt sulphates and samples of high purity scandium oxide and highpurity alumina for marketing purposes and negotiations with potential offtake partners. The collection of the bulk metallurgical sample has also allowed a more visual insitu assessment of the mineralisation. Insitu reconciliation of drill program results and lithological and weathering surfaces interpretations will be completed along with multiple largescale bulk density measurements over the coming weeks.