Phoenix Copper Limited is a North American focused, base and precious metal explorer and developer, which has carried out a drilling programme and generated a copper, gold, silver and zinc resource on which it is carrying out a feasibility study to bring the historically producing Empire Mine in Idaho, USA, back into production. It is also evaluating the silver and gold resources around three other past producing mines within the 23 km 2 Empire claims block as well as cobalt in two claims blocks north of Empire in Idaho. Phoenix s primary operations are focused near Mackay, Idaho in the Alder Creek mining district. This district includes the historical Empire, Horseshoe, White Knob and Blue Bird Mines, past producers of copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead and tungsten from underground mines in the first half of the twentieth century. Additionally, the district includes Navarre Creek a Carlin-trend gold discovery which hosts a 6.1 km gold s
Patent Awarded for CoalSwitch™
Active Energy, the London quoted international biomass based renewable energy and forestry management business, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a new U.S. patent for its CoalSwitch™ process and the beneficiation of biomass. The patent, number 10,858,607, was awarded on 8 December 2020 and will ensure Active Energy holds the legal rights to exclude any other company from producing, selling or using the claimed CoalSwitch™ process for over 17 years. The proprietary CoalSwitch™ process includes subjecting steam-exploded biomass to a second washing step to remove additional salts and light volatile compounds derived from the biomass.
This new patent combines with the U.S. process patent, number 10,647,935, which was awarded for AEG s PeatSwitch™ technology on 12 May 2020. AEG s PeatSwitch™ patent gives AEG the exclusive rights over the process of producing an engineered soil from raw biomass in AEG s unique reactor.