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Voyageur Pharmaceuticals, Upgrades Frances Creek Barite to 98% BaSO4 with First Stage Gravity Separation
(via TheNewswire) CALGARY, Alberta - TheNewswire - December 18 th , ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Voyageur Pharmaceuticals, Upgrades Frances Creek Barite to 98% BaSO4 with First Stage Gravity Separation(via TheNewswire)\n \n \nCALGARY, Alberta - TheNewswire - December 18th, 2019, Voyageur Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (TSXV:VM) (the \"Company\" or \"Voyageur\") has been working with SGS Canada to advance the Frances Creek high purity barium sulfate project. SGS Canada is currently working with the Frances Creek barite mineralized breccia and has successfully gravity separated a concentrated grade of 98.6% barium sulfate (4.4sg). The samples have been sent to the pharmacy group at SGS for further testing and the results will be available in January. The next stage of the project will begin in January 2020 and will include the engineering and planning of the barite quarry and the proprietary barium API process. \n\n \n \nA two tonne sample of Frances Creek breccia was taken from the vein along the lower A Zone. This sample is representative of run of mine quarry material and it was sent to Europe for testing of a new dry gravity processing technology process. The testing was successful in creating a 4.2 sg density pre-API plant concentrated barite. The new technology will allow for dry gravity separation of breccia material feed from the crusher. \n\n \n \nThis technology is significant in the fact that tailings ponds will NOT be required on the quarry site. This will reduce not only our operating costs but it will also enable Voyageur to work with a very small environmental footprint, while using the quarry's waste material as gravel and aggregate material. The crusher, screen and gravity system will be set up on a previously developed area from a previous logging project. Our environmental footprint will be very limited. This barite concentrate from this process will be trucked to the barium API plant, for final GMP processing.\n\n \n \nFirst Phase of Quarry Development\n\n\n \nThe next phase for Frances Creek is to complete the 10,000 tonne bulk sample from the quarry location at the B-zone. The last component of the notice of work application requires a haul road design and slope stability report. Voyageur completed the field work in December 2019, with the engineering company Vast Resource Solutions.\n\n \n \nBrent Willis, CEO of Voyageur states that, \"we are very excited by the preliminary results of gravity concentrate of 98% b...