Starfield Resources Coins Environmentally Friendly Process and Power
Starfield Resources (TSX:SRU) recently announced that it has developed an environmentally friendly way to process ore at its 100% owned Fergson Lake Project in Nunavut where the company has been exploring for, and finding, nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group elements.
It seems that necessity bred invention for Starfield at Ferguson Lake. The method typically used by mining companies, of crushing ore and using flotation to separate the mineral from the ore was not an option at this project. Instead Starfield devised to dissolve the leftover ore in hydrochloric acid, producing hydrogen sulphide gas. Burning the by-product gas as fuel will produce enough energy to power the project and then some. While the process of dissolving the ore is not entirely new, burning hydrogen sulphide gas for power is novel. It makes sound economic sense, and it is green. So says Bryn Harris, a hydrometallurgical consultant on the project.
“There’s probably going to be enough power left over that we could operate the whole town of Rankin Inlet, should we choose to do so,” said Harris said in an interview with CBC.
