White Mountain Continues Process Development Program to Recover High Grade Feldspar at Cerro Blanco Titanium Project

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- White Mountain Titanium Corporation ("White Mountain" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: WMTM) reports that it has signed a contract with SGS Lakefield ("SGS") to conduct a further process development program for the recovery of high purity sodium feldspar concentrate from the Cerro Blanco Titanium Project (the "Project").  The objective of this program is to refine and optimize the sodium feldspar process flowsheet and to enhance overall concentrate specifications.

Working on a feedstock derived from the tailings stream of earlier rutile pilot plant testwork, SGS will now examine the selective use of flotation activators and collectors and the effect of varying process conditions on the recovery of a high purity, sodium feldspar concentrate to a specification suitable for use in glass and ceramics applications.  

From a metallurgical perspective, findings from this process development program will add to the considerable body of Project information that already exists concerning the recovery of co-product feldspar.  From a commercial point of view, samples of the resultant concentrate will be made available to several international industrial mineral companies who have expressed a possible interest in purchasing sodium feldspar concentrate produced from the Project.

The Company expects to be in a position to report on the findings from this process development program in approximately 3 months time.

"The recovery of a commercial grade sodium feldspar concentrate from the Project's tailings stream is potentially a very attractive opportunity for the Company," said Michael Kurtanjek, the Company's President and CEO. "Given the high percentage of feldspar reporting to the tailings stream and that much of the cost burden would be borne in the production of rutile concentrate, sales of sodium feldspar concentrate could make a meaningful positive impact on the overall economics of the Project."

About White Mountain Titanium Corporation

The Company holds mining concessions on the Cerro Blanco property currently consisting of 33 registered mining exploitation concessions and five mining exploration concessions in the process of being constituted, over approximately 8,225 hectares located approximately 39 kilometers west of the City of Vallenar in the Atacama, or Region III, geographic region of northern Chile. The Company's principal objectives are to advance the Cerro Blanco project towards a final engineering feasibility, and to secure off-take contracts for the planned rutile concentrate output. It would be the intention to sell the rutile concentrate to titanium metal and pigment producers. Work also continues to investigate the commercial viability of producing a feldspar co-product. The feldspar could find applications in the glass and ceramics industries.

The OTC BB has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and, therefore, involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.

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SOURCE White Mountain Titanium Corporation

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