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Auctioneer Larry Jordan and “junior auctioneer” Wyatt Coulson helped raise more than $22,000 during the 30th Annual Ducks Unlimited Banquet and Auction at the 108 Community Hall on Oct. 18. Eighty-seven cents of every dollar raised goes to Ducks Unlimited projects.
Two readings given to processing facility Company looking to retrieve precious metals with green technology Ken Alexander Free Press
Steve Hanson of IMG Gold Recovery and Larry Henderson, of Henderson Contracting, were before District of 100 Mile House council on Oct. 14 seeking a zoning amendment that would allow a natural resource processing facility on a Sollows Crescent property. The land is owned by Henderson and is the former Original Log Homes construction yard. Hanson is a partner in the IMG Gold Recovery pilot plant in Burnaby, which trucks sand and placer materials to its site, extracts precious metals and minerals – primarily gold, silver and platinum – by using a non-chemical process, and
then trucks the leftover material in the existing warehouse building, away. Hanson said the process won’t need Hanson and Henderson would a lot of water because most of it like to set up a similar system in will be recycled. However, after the 100 Mile House, where it would be precious metal is extracted, a small central to numerous mining opera- amount of water will remain in the tions throughout British silt in the settling tank. It's a green Columbia, which could Hanson explained the solution for supply the sand and pilot plant in Burnaby recovering placer material. retrieves around 95 per precious Hanson said he had cent of the precious metals." looked at several commetals from the sand munities in central B.C., and placer materials. – Steve but liked what he found “With our new green Hanson in 100 Mile House. technology, we are using He added the nonold [mining] fields to chemical processing system is based get the product.” on gravity separation. Henderson said IMG is retrieving “It’s a green solution for recover- material that can’t be captured in a ing precious metals.” normal placer operation, which, he Noting the processing will be done added, only retrieves about 10 per
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cent of the minerals – visible gold. Hanson explained that getting a continuous supply of sand and placer materials is a key issue and it’s something they are working on. He added noise is not a concern because the process is like a cement mixer turning a slurry mixture. “Security won’t be a problem because the smelting will be done off-site. He expects to hire four to six employees at the beginning and hopes to be operational next spring. Councillors gave the zoning amendment two readings, which is the first step in the process. The public hearing will be held on Nov. 12, and the amendment could get third reading that night.