With a processed 150-tonne bulk sample of talc product on hand, Pacific Talc (VSE) is proceeding with further proprietary processing to produce a wettable talc pigment for large-scale testing by three paper companies in British Columbia.
The work is part of a bankable feasibility study which the company expects to finish this spring.
Pacific Talc owns a talc deposit about 300 km north of Vancouver, near Boston Bar. Preliminary estimates put deposit reserves at about 8.2 million tonnes grading 60% talc.
The current feasibility work calls for a plant producing about 150,000 tonnes of clean product per year primarily for use as pigments and fillers in the papermaking industry.
Pacific Talc successfully completed a smaller pilot plant run last summer testing both the mineral processing operations and the subsequent fabrication of paper.
The company’s wettable talc product is targeted as a substitute for more expensive kaolin clays currently being used as brighteners and fillers in the paper industry.
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