Voyageur Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is implementing steps to ensure the Frances Creek barium sulfate project leads the industry in environmental best practices. Our objective is to create a project that has the lowest impact possible on the environment.

Voyageur is currently testing and investigating new technologies that will directly reduce the overall impact on the area of our quarry project and future API facilities. This includes minimizing our CO2 emissions, land disturbance, elimination of tailings ponds and reducing water consumption. We have set an agenda that will reduce our environmental impact by focusing on the following:

• Reduce water consumption

• Reduce emmissions

• Eliminate tailing ponds

• Reduce waste dumps

• Limit ground disturbance throughout the project area

Voyageur has successfully tested new gravity concentration technology. Allgaier Mogensen S. L., based in Spain, a wholly owned division of Allgaier Group of Uhingen Germany, has developed the GSort Densimetric Table for the separation of materials by density. This system successfully concentrated a 3-tonne sample that came from a crushed representative run of mine sample from the Francis Creek property vein. The sample was sent to the Allgaier Mogensen Test Lab where it averaged a specific gravity of 3.0 feed for the GSort unit. The Allgaier Mogensen GSort Densimetric Table was successful in using air gravity to obtain a final specific gravity concentrate of 4.3 with the underflow waste rock resulting in a 2.9 specific gravity.

Voyageur is testing multiple new technologies for incorporation into the design of its barium sulfate processing facility with the environmental impact playing a major role for equipment selection.

Brent Willis, CEO, comments, “We are testing multiple technologies and the G-Sort system could be a game changer for our barite quarry, it may allow for a very small environmental footprint, no water usage, no tailings ponds and a very small, efficient unit that reduces the overall emissions. The G-Sort technology will allow Voyageur to create a sound environmental processing plant located on the quarry site. By operating with a dry gravity system, we can eliminate drying costs and reduce the overall operating costs to produce high purity product.”

Repost from the article published by Globe News Wire on February 18, 2020.