(Ore is displayed at Avalon’s East Kemptville Tin-Indium property-PHOTO: Avalon Advanced Materials)
Avalon Advanced Materials is planning a small-scale tin processing plant for December of next year.
Company president Don Bubar says the material is easily accessible.
“There’s actually a lot of ore that was mined that’s sitting on the surface, some 6 million tonnes.”
He says the operation could be sustained for 6 to 8 years.
The former Rio Algom company left the material because tin prices began to plummet which led to the mine’s closure in 1992 throwing 200 people from Yarmouth and Shelburne Counties out of work.
Bubar says prices are now high due to an increase in global demand for tin because of its increased application in electronics.
He says the site also it contains indium gallium germanium, a mineral used in electronics for display panels and flat screen TVs and lithium, used in batteries.
He says the company will look to source all the labour, 25 jobs, locally within South Western Nova Scotia.
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http://avalonadvancedmaterials.com/projects/east_kemptville/