A Focus on Resource Development
Ironstone is advancing in multiple stages of strategic development including infrastructure development, resource assessment and commercial mine and ore process development.
Commencing in Fall 2008, Ironstone completed surface permitting and road development to access the Clear Hills iron ore deposits.
The 32-mile Notikewan Fire Tower road was opened and brought into condition to provide access to the company’s campsite. Ironstone’s 2,800 foot airstrip (3,074’ ASL) was graded and dressed. The company constructed a new access road from its airstrip to the Rambling Creek lease.
Ironstone completed its Winter 2008 resource evaluation program on its Rambling Creek property, drilling 53 holes and recovering over 1,265 feet of iron ore core.
The core was sampled and submitted to labs for geochemical, mineralogical and metallurgical analyses to determine iron and vanadium resource grades. The results also provided ore beneficiation process options which are now being reviewed by our technical team.
Ironstone is also building upon the direct reduced iron process development work conducted by the Alberta Research Council and CANMET to beneficiate the Clear Hills iron ore into merchantable HBI/DRI for sales to steel producers across the globe.
