Pure Minerals in trading halt with capital raising announcement pending

Pure Minerals Ltd (ASX:PM1) has been granted a trading halt by the ASX with a capital raising announcement pending   The halt will remain in place until the beginning of trade on Monday, September 21, or when an announcement is released to the market, whichever occurs earliest. Tech Project advancement   Pure Minerals subsidiary Queensland Pacific Metals Pty Ltd (QPM) has been making steady progress with the TECH Project aimed at establishing a value-adding metals processing facility in the Queensland city of Townsville. Pilot plant activities are progressing as planned at ALS Global Hydrometallurgy Centre of Excellence in Perth with final pilot plant flowsheet details agreed and assembly underway. A pilot project management team comprising representatives from ALS Global, CSIRO, Direct Nickel and QPM has been established and the team is holding weekly meetings to monitor progress. Further progress has come by way of an iron collaboration with Sun Metals, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Korea Zinc, to undertake agglomeration work on a haematite by-product.