Avalon Rare Metals begins pilot plant program at lithium asset – Mining.com

August 17, 2015

Canada’s Avalon Rare Metals (TSX:AVL) (NYSEMKT:AVL), until now mostly known for its incursion in the rare earths market, has kick off its $750,000 pilot plant program at the miner’s Separation Rapids lithium project, located near Kenora, Ontario.

The facility, said the company, will provide a trial of the new lithium minerals process flow sheet developed at the bench scale over the past year.

A total of 30 tonnes of crushed ore will be shipped to a laboratory in Germany for processing to produce a minimum of 1 tonne of pure lithium mineral (petalite) concentrate, Avalon added.

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