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Uragold Technical Partner Pyrogenesis Announces Purevap(tm) Process Breakthrough
(via Thenewswire.ca) Montreal, Quebec, Canada / TheNewswire / April 19 2016 - Uragold ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Uragold Technical Partner Pyrogenesis Announces Purevap(tm) Process Breakthrough(via Thenewswire.ca)\n \n \nMontreal, Quebec, Canada / TheNewswire / April 19 2016 - Uragold (TSX Venture: UBR) is pleased to report that PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (\"PyroGenesis\"), a clean-Tech company that designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes plasma waste-to-energy systems, plasma torch products and the PUREVAP(TM) Quartz Vaporization Reactor (\"PUREVAPTM\"), from whom Uragold has been granted the worldwide exclusive rights for the One Step Production of Solar Grade Purity Silicon Metal from Quartz, announced today that early test results of their PUREVAPTM process has demonstrated that it can transform high purity quartz into silicon metal. \n\n\n \nIn their press release, Pierre Carabin, Director of Engineering of PyroGenesis stated \"We are very pleased by these early results,\" and then further stated \"Our ability to demonstrate that our process can produce metal at such an early stage is encouraging and is the first step towards the Company's objective to produce a silicon product of solar grade purity.\" \n\n\n \nAs previously noted, PUREVAPTM is a proprietary process that uses a plasma arc within a vacuum furnace to produce high purity, metallurgical grade silicon (MG-Si), solar grade silicon (UMG Si) and polysilicon from quartz in just one step. \n\n\n \nBernard Tourillon, Chairman and CEO of Uragold stated \"Today's press release from PyroGenesis is another significant step in the dynamic testing process that commenced on March 29. To say that we are extremely happy with this breakthrough so early in the program is an understatement. We are especially encouraged about the following statement made by PyroGenesis CEO, P. Peter Pascali in his press release - 'We look forward to the final results of our testing program and advancing to the pilot stage with Uragold.'\n\n\n \nNEXT STEPS\n\n\n \nThe dynamic test protocols, which called for a first series of metallurgical tests to be completed at different operational settings, are still ongoing. Having validated that the process works, the program continues to its second stage whereby the operational parameters of the reactor are adjusted in order to achieve the transformation of Uragold Quartz into Solar Grade Purity Si.\n\n\n \nThe High Purity Silicon Metal produced by the reactor...