PILOT PLANT PHASE 1 TESTING
For the past few weeks the first phase of the mobile pilot plant has been undergoing preliminary testing. The pilot plant (first phase) consists of a rock crusher capable of producing different sizes, different screens, and a ceramic ball mill to minimize metal contamination. The mobile plant was mobilized to a local gravel pit near the
The goal of the pilot testing is to refine a process to produce suitable material to meet the specifications requested by
SUMMER 2022 EXPLORATION:
Quebec Silica's field teams have been busy all summer in the exploration and advancement of the
To start the exploration season, EkoXplor, QTZ's main contractor in charge of physical work, completed a line cutting and trail re-establishment program. This allowed access throughout the property and the ability to perform modern systematic exploration for the first time. As per QTZ's and EkoXplor's mandates, all work was done in an environmentally low-impact fashion, existing trails were cleared and re-established, and lines were kept to a maximum width of 1.2m (4 feet).
With access to the property established, the INRS field team performed property wide geological mapping, a structural study, and geochemical and petrophyscal sampling was carried out.
Following line cutting and access re-establishment, efforts focused on the 'Central Zone' as shown on Figure 2. To keep the footprint and impact as small as possible, EkoXplor utilized a mini-excavator and power washers to strip trenches off the known silica outcropping known as the 'Central Zone' (Figure 3), a total of 16 trenches were stripped from the
NEWLY DISCOVERED ZONES AND NEW CLAIMS
As a result of prospecting and mapping, new zones of potentially high-grade quartzite outcroppings have been identified resulting in the need to acquire additional mineral claims along the northern edge of original claim block (Figure 2).
FALL 2022
The Company plans on performing detailed geological follow up of the newly discovered quartzite zones, as well as further prospecting for more new zones.
The Company is awaiting ministry approval to perform a geotechnical drilling investigation of the
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