January 31, 2013

The Financial Post reports of Blue Coast Research's involvement in the "excellent" preliminary metallurgical results obtained on Almaden Minerals' Tuligtic Gold-Silver project within the Mexican Ixtaca Zone. BCR tested "a range of composite samples, comprising half drillcore intersections from each of the main geologic domains: dyke, limestone, limestone/dyke high grade (HG), black shale (Northeast Extension Zone) and volcanic tuff material. Each composite was made up of five sub composites, each of which was taken from a separate drillhole, representing a different part of the respective geologic domain. Samples were shipped from Ixtaca in late August, 2012 and inspected at the Blue Coast Laboratory in early September 2012."    See article in Financial Post

December 14, 2012

Recent metallurgical testwork undertaken at Blue Coast Research, under the direction of Marjorie Colebrook and Dave Middleditch, has resulted in exceptionally high (97%) gold recovery from sample. Using a combination of centrifugal gravity concentration and conventional cyanide leaching processes, this exceptional result provides another Vancouver-based mining company with robust data required to advance project development.    See client news release

December 12, 2012

Blue Coast Metallurgy has opened a new office in Vancouver, located at Suite 903 - 525 Seymour Street. Located less than one block from the Granville Skytrain station and just over 3 blocks from the Seabus Terminal / Waterfront Skytrain station, it is easily accesible by car, transit or Seabus. This office can be reached by telephone through our head office number at +1.250.586.0600, or Chris Arnold can be reached directly on his cell at +1.778.317.7756.

September 12th 2012

We are delighted to announce that Tad Crowie, P.Eng, will be joining Blue Coast Metallurgy as Senior Associate Metallurgist starting on November 1st. Tad brings to Blue Coast a wealth of project and operations experience from spells as Senior and Chief Metallurgist at Gibraltar and Endako, as well as Mill Manager at Greenwood Gold. He is past-President of the BC Branch of the Canadian Mineral Processors and sits on the National Executive of the CMP. We look forward to welcoming Tad to the team in November.

August 15th 2012

Pyros is the ancient Greek word for "fire", from which we get our English word "purify". With the acquisition of a 2400° F assay furnace from Montreal, Quebec manufacturer Pyradia, Blue Coast Assayers has added heat to commercial fire assays.

August 7th 2012

Significant advancements made in the metallurgical treatment of the Strieborna concentrates through mineral processing, pyrometallurgical and hydrometallurgical testing by a team supervised by Blue Coast Metallurgy Ltd.    See client news release

June 29th 2012

Blue Coast manages testing to another positive bankable feasibility, this time for Sunridge Gold on the Debarwa project in Eritrea.    See client news release

June 22nd 2012

First commercial assays generated by Blue Coast Assayers.

June 21st 2012

Blue Coast manages testing and co-author Sama Resources’ first mineral resource estimate for their Samapleu nickel-copper deposit, Cote d’Ivoire.    See client news release

May 2nd 2012

Blue Coast Metallurgy manages metallurgy and co-authors positive pre-feasibility for the Asmara North project for Sunridge Gold in Eritrea.    See client news release

April 10th 2012

Blue Coast praised by Colossus Minerals for their "tireless efforts" and "commitment to the project" in contributing to key metallurgical breakthroughs at Serra Pelada, Brazil.    See client news release

March 1st 2012

Blue Coast Metallurgy opens office in downtown Vancouver. Located in Suite 1060 - 1090 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, the office is situated in the centre of the Vancouver mining scene to further increase levels of service to our many Vancouver based clients.

February 1st 2012

Blue Coast featured in CIM magazine Upfront article "Flash of Brilliance", regarding gold recovery and flash rotation in Kinross Gold's Paracatu operation.    Read article

January 18th 2012

Blue Coast Metallurgy’s Rob Thorpe wins "Best Presentation Award" at the Annual CMP Operators conference in Ottawa. This award was for his presentation on process optimisation at Paracatu to the CMP in 2011.

January 15th 2012

Blue Coast welcomes Bruce Fox aboard. Bruce joins in the capacity of President of our new assay laboratory; Blue Coast Assayers Ltd. This laboratory will be the only commercial fire and wet chemical laboratory solely dedicated to assaying process samples and as such is expected to provide same day or next day assay turnaround on samples from Blue Coast Research and Metallurgy, and other metallurgical clients.

December 2nd 2011

Blue Coast contributes to major breakthrough in metallurgy with Hard Creek Nickels’ Turnagain Project in North British Column, Canada, leading to far improved PEA economics on the project.    See client news release

November 9th 2011

Blue Coast provides key contribution and co-author positive feasibility report for Bear Creek’s Corani project.    See client news release

October 31st 2011

BCR capabilities expand to include Centrifugal Gravity Concentration testwork through the acquisition of a Knelson MD-3 Concentrator.

September 22nd 2011

Teck announces $475 million mill upgrade for Highland Valley Copper, following development work conducted by Highland Valley with Blue Coast Metallurgy as lead consultant since 2009.

July 8th 2011

Blue Coast commissions metallurgical laboratory with landmark first metallurgical testing. Blue Coast Research completes construction of the start-up laboratory on time and on budget.