Hudson Produces High Quality Alumina From Its White Mountain Anorthosite Project in Greenland
September 19 2013 - 2:08PM
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BC - HUDSON RESOURCES INC. (the ?Company?) ? (TSX
Venture Exchange
?HUD?; OTCQX ?HUDRF?) is pleased to announce that the Company has
successfully
produced alumina (aluminum oxide) from initial bench-scale testing
on the calcium
feldspar anorthosite from its White Mountain Project. The objective of the testwork,
which has been
undertaken at SGS Lakefield under the supervision of Hudson?s
consulting
metallurgist, Dr. John Goode, P. Eng., is to produce smelter grade
alumina
(SGA). A presentation
summarizing the technical
results has been posted to Hudson?s website at
www.hudsonresources.ca/files/Sept-2013-Alumina.pdf.
As
announced in January 2013 (NR-2013-02), testwork using
hydrochloric acid (HCl) leaching demonstrated the high solubility
of the
anorthosite material at normal atmospheric pressure and relatively
low
temperatures of 100 degree Celsius. Alumina recoveries from the
latest four
tests ranged from 95% to 98%. The
process also generates an amorphous silica by-product which has
applications in
the Portland cement industry. Little to
no waste material is produced from the process.
Following the success of the
small scale tests, larger scale tests have
now been initiated at SGS to produce sufficient alumina for
analysis by potential
end users in the aluminum industry.
James
Tuer, Hudson?s President, stated, ?We are very excited with these
results and believe
we are well on our way to producing a marketable smelter grade
alumina. The
high solubility of our White Mountain Anorthosite, which is unique
to high
calcium feldspars, eliminates the need for an expensive high
temperature and
high pressure leaching process. We have utilized and improved upon
existing,
unpatented aluminum chloride production processes and we do not
require any new
technologies to produce a high quality product.?
Additional
test work has commenced in order to:
1.
Reproduce
the results with larger sample batches;
2.
Perform
additional SGA analyses to analyze the physical properties
of the alumina;
3.
Provide
sufficient samples for the aluminum producers to test
efficacy of the alumina in the production of aluminum;
4.
Finalize
the flowsheet in order to determine the preliminary
economics to produce the alumina
Currently, the world supply of alumina comes from
bauxite deposits
located in the Southern Hemisphere which produce a significant
amount of red
mud waste material.
Hudson?s White
Mountain project is strategically located close to aluminum
smelters in Eastern
Canada, Iceland and Europe. Alcoa has
submitted an application to the Government of Greenland to build an
aluminum
smelter approximately 80 km from Hudson?s White Mountain
project.
The
White Mountain Anorthosite project is 100% owned by Hudson. The
project has
three potential high-value applications which are being
investigated, as
follows:
1.
A new source of feedstock to the high end fiberglass (E-glass)
industry;
2.
A new source of alumina to supply aluminum smelters
3. A new
source of filler material. Fillers are
a significant component of the plastics, paints and paper
industries
The company is rapidly
advancing the E-Glass project with several Letters of Intent in
place, a bulk
sample test taking place later this year, and a technical study
near
completion.
Hudson remains well
financed with approximately $4 million in working
capital.
John R. Goode is the Qualified Person as
defined by National Instrument 43-101, who reviewed the preparation
of the
scientific and technical metallurgical information in this press
release.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
?James Tuer?
James Tuer, President
For
further information:
James
Tuer, President
Ph:
604-628-5002 or 604-688-3415
tuer@hudsonresources.ca
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