Royal Mines And Minerals Corp. announced that since testing began on the Royal Mines Cholla process for the recovery of gold from fly ash, the company have run over 80 tons of fly ash through the Phoenix and Scottsdale plants. The company has progressively upgraded the facilities to accommodate more throughputs based upon bench and plant scale testing. The value of 40 (5 lb) samples tested in its plants, from March 7 to December 29, 2011, ranged from nil to 1.483 ounces per ton and averages 0.605 ounces per ton. Due to inconsistencies in its latest testing the company is analyzing the water used in the Cholla process for impurities and chemical make-up, with expectations to scale up the process to commercial levels as soon as feasible. While the company has been engaged in this testing, it has also received the first fly ash, for testing, direct from a public utility that produces fly ash. This may provide an opportunity for a joint venture with the public utility or other producers of fly ash.