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[Sep 2005]
Emgold Licenses CeramextTM Technology
In unveiling its results for the first half of 2005 (with a loss of US$2.385 million), Emgold Mining Corporation (Vancouver, BC, Canada) revealed that it had spent just over US$591,000 on research and development of the CeramextTM Process.
Emgold licensed the world-wide rights to this technology because of its potential to provide a tailings management strategy and to contribute a significant revenue stream to the Idaho-Maryland Mine. The company also believes there is a global business opportunity to create revenue from processing a wide range of other waste and naturally occurring materials to produce high quality ceramic building materials.
The CeramextTM hot vacuum extrusion process should be able to use a very wide range of siliceous feedstocks that would normally be considered waste materials. These include not only mine development rock and mine tailing materials, such as those from the Idaho-Maryland project, but also coal and lignite fly ash which is generated primarily from power plants, incinerator and wood ash, waste earth materials and a variety of other silicates.
Many of the feedstocks have been tested using Emgold's pilot-scale plants, some yielding very positive results. The Idaho-Maryland feedstock has been used to produce high quality ceramic material, as has fly ash and other materials from mining and industrial sites throughout North America. The testing of the feedstock materials is ongoing in conjunction with equipment design and product development.
The process is expected to be capable of producing high quality ceramics at approximately 30% to 40% less cost than other conventional ceramic processes. Savings are expected from the process by more efficient use of energy and the lower cost of feedstocks.
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