Environmental research and permitting negotiations are under way for Highwood Resources’ (TSE) Thor Lake beryllium project 65 miles southeast of Yellowknife, N.W.T. According to D. G. Thomas, president, “site preparation could commence some time in summer 1989 with beryllium and rare-earth (bastnaesite) production possible in 1990.” Pilot plant equipment has been installed at Lakefield Research in Ontario to convert Thor Lake concentrate into beryllium hydroxide which is used to manufacture beryllium-copper alloys, beryllium metal, and beryllia ceramics. Test work was scheduled to begin this month and project data from this program will be used in the feasibility study.
Thomas says that flotation tests were carried out during November on a bulk sample from the company’s zirconium-yttrium project in Greenland; purification of leached zirconium might be possible on a pilot plant basis in the first quarter, he states, adding that Highwood has a working capital of $3 million.
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