Toro Energy Limited announced the interim results of phase two of the Beneficiation and Process Design studies for the company's 100% owned Wiluna Uranium Project in Western Australia. These results further confirm opportunities to substantially reduce the capital and operating costs of the processing facility that was successfully tested in the scoping study. The results show that the re-design of the process flow sheet, which significantly reduces the capital and operational cost of the proposed hydrometallurgical plant for the Wiluna Uranium Project, continues to be validated at scoping level testing. Major successes of the phase two test work, which have the potential to significantly enhance the technical and financial feasibility of the Wiluna Uranium Project, so far include: The de-sliming was confirmed to be robust on all ore types and thus provided a beneficiated ore feed amenable to all other proposed downstream processing techniques in the redesigned plant and flowsheet, that have previously been shown to reduce the overall capital and operating costs of the processing circuit; Clay80 ore, one of the dominant ore types in the Wiluna Uranium Project, continued to perform above expectations in terms of producing a low mass, high grade uranium concentrate after screening and de-sliming; Successful testing of larger screen sizes has reduced the need for specialised screening equipment; Vacuum filtration of Clay80 ore after beneficiation successfully removed saline water from the de-slimed concentrate at filtration rates equal to or greater than those achieved in the preliminary test work, which confirms the potential for a significant reduction in reagent use and the potential to replace direct precipitation with ion exchange in the processing circuit; Heavy Liquid Separation (`HLS') testing has indicated that a gravity separation process will be an efficient method of rejecting two major consumers of reagents in the leach, gypsum and celestine, from the coarse component of the two main ore types; and Gravity separation presented itself as a potentially effective method of further beneficiating the low grade coarse component of already beneficiated ore. Metallurgical consultants Strategic Metallurgy were engaged in 2017 to further develop the processing concepts that were successfully tested in Toro's preliminary studies conducted in 2016. The main focus of the work was to test for variability in the behaviour of each individual ore type identified in earlier studies, to the proposed beneficiation method, as well as other processing techniques, such as filtration. The earlier studies highlighted a major opportunity to reduce both the capital and operating costs of the proposed hydrometallurgical plant for the Wiluna Uranium Project through a re-design of the plant and processing flowsheet. The key changes were: the introduction of a beneficiation circuit that used simple screening and de-sliming to concentrate uranium; a filtration and washing step which removes saline water and produces a drier leach feed thereby reducing reagent consumption; a unique wash water recirculation to increase reagent utilisation and reduce reagent losses; and the introduction of ion exchange which removes the need for evaporation ponds.