Montreal-based Exploration Orbite VSPA. Inc. is working towards producing alumina at its Grande-Vallee property, a site of a 35km km2 aluminous clay deposit located 32km north-east of Murdochville in the Gaspe region, Quebec, Canada.
The Canadian company acquired the former Alpha Quartz Systems plant located in Cap-Chat for around $300,000 in 2009. Trials at its Cap-Chat pilot plant for the transformation of alumina clay into alumina are expected in Q4 2010. Orbite owns the rights to the process.
Geology & mineralogy
The Grande-Vallee property is situated in the southern part of the Cambrian-Ordovician land of the Appalachian geological province and is atypical because the glaciers seem to have only slightly eroded the sector’s Appalachian landscape. “Such formations are rarely found in northern latitudes, such as the Quebec and Ontario area,” Orbite underlined.
The property covers an important fragment of rock attributed primarily to the Moose formation...