Comstock Mining Updates Mercury Remediation Venture
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Wednesday, September 4, 2019
VIRGINIA CITY, Nev., Sept. 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comstock Mining Inc. (the Company or Comstock Mining) (NYSE American: LODE) announced a number of salient updates on its collaboration with Oro Industries Inc. (Oro), and the newly formed company called Mercury Clean Up LLC (MCU), for the manufacture and global deployment of mercury remediation systems with proprietary mechanical, hydro, electro-chemical and oxidation processes to reclaim, treat and remediate mercury from tailings and industrial effluents.
Key Points:
- VIRGINIA CITY, Nev., Sept. 04, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Comstock Mining Inc. (the Company or Comstock Mining) (NYSE American: LODE) announced a number of salient updates on its collaboration with Oro Industries Inc. (Oro), and the newly formed company called Mercury Clean Up LLC (MCU), for the manufacture and global deployment of mercury remediation systems with proprietary mechanical, hydro, electro-chemical and oxidation processes to reclaim, treat and remediate mercury from tailings and industrial effluents.
- In June 2019, announced that it would, through MCU, demonstrate the feasibility of a mercury remediation system within the historic, world-class, Comstock Lode mining district.
- Comstock Mining provides the platform for testing the mercury remediation system, and MCU conducts the initial trials starting with a 2 ton per hour pilot operation that could scale up to 25 tons per hour.
- Comstock Mining Inc. is a Nevada-based, gold, and silver mining company with extensive, contiguous property in the Comstock District and is an emerging leader in sustainable, responsible mining.