Press release
Eldora Gold Resources Initial GravSep ™ Environmental Tests Provide Positive Results; Eldora’s First Step toward Rehabilitating Tailings Ponds
(Toronto) – Eldora Gold Resources Inc. is pleased to announce the results of a recently completed acid base accounting (ABA) analysis. This static environmental analysis was performed by AGAT Laboratories of Mississauga, Ontario on a sample of rougher tailing material from the GravSep™ pilot plant conducted at the Kirkland Lake tailings site.Eldora is encouraged by the Net Neutralization Potential (NNP) value of 66.2, as values of NNP greater than 20 are not likely to produce acid. The NP/AP value of 3.38 suggests that the material falls in the “not potentially acid rock drainage generating unless extremely reactive sulphides are present with insufficiently reactive neutralizing potential” category. The paste pH value of 8.06 indicates that the material will likely remain sufficiently alkaline.
Eldora researchers will conduct follow up testing involving the planting of hemlock seedlings in a 6 cm humus layer on GravSep™ rougher tailing while continuing to test the potential for sustained rehabilitation efforts. This will enable a soil base which may support vegetative rehabilitation without resorting to further and ongoing chemical treatment.
The Eldora seedlings test is designed to check if vegetative rehabilitation in the form of the original forest cover can be achieved with no requirement to add carbonate (usually limestone) or supply a humus cover of at least 0.5 metre. The ‘standard treatment’ for the rehabilitation of sulphide tailings ponds involves:
a) Catching and treating the runoff and groundwater for dissolved metals,
b) Monitoring the above for approx 100 years,
c) Adding sufficient carbonate to the tailings sands to neutralize anticipated acid generation, and
d) Covering the contoured sands with at least 0.5 metre of humus or composted organics and establishing a grass cover.
Clearly, if Eldora’s method can be proven in the field, it will represent a major cost savings over current standard practice, and set up conditions for future harvesting of a renewable resource: tailings.
Profitably addressing the critical clean-up challenges that face owners of former mining sites globally, the chemical-free GravSep™ process enables niche deposits to be considered for successful treatment and rehabilitation, while extracting and recovering valuable mineral concentrates which have significant deleterious environmental effects when left in-situ. Eldora Gold provides portable and simple to maintain equipment that can be specifically tailored to each deposit.
Tailings have always been an unwanted byproduct of mining from an environmental standpoint, greatly affecting wildlife and water tables for years to come. GravSep™ drastically reduces the acid forming mineral content of these tailings during the mineral extraction process. The result is cleaner tailings. The profitable sale of the recovered mineral concentrate provides the incentive to use Eldora Gold technology to stop the destruction of the environment.
Eldora Gold Resources Canada was founded by a group of experts in the mineral recovery and mining industry, whose focus is to provide accurate information, state of the art equipment and outstanding customer service. Eldora Gold has developed and is offering a proprietary separation technique for extracting mineral content from mining tailings.
Eldora Gold Resources LTD.
10079 Winona Station,
Winona, Ontario
L8E 5R1
Canada
This release was published on openPR.
Permanent link to this press release:
Copy
Please set a link in the press area of your homepage to this press release on openPR. openPR disclaims liability for any content contained in this release.
You can edit or delete your press release Eldora Gold Resources Initial GravSep ™ Environmental Tests Provide Positive Results; Eldora’s First Step toward Rehabilitating Tailings Ponds here
News-ID: 161070 • Views: …
More Releases from Eldora Gold Resources LTD.
Eldora Gold Resources Expects New Tailings Test Results from Kenora in May
March 18, 2011 By eldora
(Winona) – Eldora Gold Resources Ltd. has begun first stage testing of tailings material from a small-scale Kenora Mining District property owned by a private company. The tailings are contained in two disposal sites from milling operations that ceased in the early 1900′s. To start, 10 kg of sample will be tested through Eldora’s laboratory-scale GravSep™ system for gold recovery and for…
Eldora Gold Resources Now Trading on Frankfurt Stock Exchange
March 17, 2011 By eldora
(Winona) – Eldora Gold Resources Ltd., a mineral recovery company, is proud to announce its stock is now trading as of March 14 on the First Quotation Board (Open Market) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. “The response has been phenomenal,” says Eldora Gold president Sonny Wilcox. The company symbol ER5 was assigned last month by Deutsche Börse.
Eldora successfully showcased its physical…
Eldora Gold Resources Set to Trade on Frankfurt Stock Exchange
March 4, 2011
(Winona) – Eldora Gold Resources Ltd., a mineral recovery company, is proud to announce that it’s listing and trading is expected to begin the week of March 14 on the First Quotation Board (Open Market) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company symbol ER5 was assigned last month by Deutsche Börse.
Eldora is currently showcasing its physical separation process, called GravSep™, at the PDAC conference…
Eldora Gold Expects New Tailings Test Results from Kenora in May
Winona - Eldora Gold Resources Ltd. has begun first stage testing of tailings material from a small-scale Kenora Mining District property owned by a private company. The tailings are contained in two disposal sites from milling operations that ceased in the early 1900′s. To start, 10 kg of sample will be tested through Eldora’s laboratory-scale GravSep™ system for gold recovery and for suitability for remediation. Results…
More Releases for GravSep™
Open Therapeutics and doDOC™ Partner to Integrate doDOC™ Content Management …
Open Therapeutics and doDOC™ Partner to Integrate doDOC™ Content Management System into Therapoid™.
Innovative manuscript development tool to be integrated into scientific collaboration platform.
Minneapolis, MN and Boston, MA – June 27, 2018 – Open Therapeutics LLC, a scientific collaboration platform company, and doDOC, a online collaborative writing tool that allows researchers to plan, draft, edit, review and approve professional documents more than 70% faster, have partnered. Therapoid™ will freely…
Dali Wireless™ Introduces its Low Power t-Series Solution: tHost™ and t30™
Palo Alto, October 25, 2012 – Dali Wireless, a leader in next generation wireless infrastructure, today announced the release of its low power t-Series solution, which consists of the t30 remote unit and the tHost head-end.
The exponential growth of mobile data capacity is challenging traditional cellular networks. Dali Wireless has created a unique solution to address these capacity limitations by combining industry standard protocols with the culmination of over…
GFI™ Software Announces GFI LANguard™ 2011
Clearwater, FL – May 23, 2011 – GFI Software’s Infrastructure Business Unit today announced the launch of GFI LANguard™2011, the latest version of the company’s comprehensive network vulnerability scanning and patch management solution. GFI LANguard 2011 is the first network vulnerability and patch management solution to integrate with more than 1,500 security applications and to include keyword search functionality, illustrating GFI’s commitment to providing small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with…
GravSep™ Launched by Eldora Gold Resources
Toronto, Canada – Eldora Gold has developed and is offering a proprietary separation technique for extracting mineral content from mining tailings.
Eldora Gold Resources announced the completion of its first pilot plant - GravSep™. Eldora Gold Resources’ GravSep™ helps on physical separation processes to extract a concentrate from the first selected mill tailings site in Kirkland Lake, Canada.
Our technology has no up-front cost to the client due to the…
SaferWatch™ announces TIN Manager™
HEBRON, ND – SaferWatch announces the release of their latest software solution, TIN Manager™. The TIN Manager feature is designed to verify the accuracy of Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) and name information prior to submitting 1099’s to the IRS so that the company will not be penalized or fined for mismatches.
TIN Manager eliminates tax preparation hassles by giving the bookkeeping departments of broker and shipper businesses a…
Eldora Gold Resources Set to Showcase GravSep™ at Upcoming PDAC Conference in …
(Toronto) – Held annually in Toronto, the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) produces the world’s leading convention and trade show for the mineral exploration industry. Eldora Gold is pleased to announce it will be participating in the Prospectors Tent at PDAC 2011, excited to showcase both GravSep™ and early results from the Kirkland Lake project. The PDAC Trade Show attracts 22,000 delegates from 118 countries, and features…