technical report on the nechalacho deposit, thor lake project ...

CONCENTRATE HANDLING
Concentrate will arrive from the TLP in containers from the annual sealift over the summer
season. The first containers would be expected to arrive commencing in late July with ongoing
arrival over a one month period.
The containers will be unloaded to a storage facility immediately adjacent to the dock at Pine
Point before being shipped by truck to the process facility at Pine Point. If space permits the
concentrate could be stored in that location for an extended (months) period and slowly moved
to the Pine Point treatment facility.
Concentrate which was loaded and stored at TLP over the winter months will be frozen and will
not be amenable to rapid unloading. Containers will be tracked by number to determine those
that are in all likelihood frozen so that they can be exposed to summer heating whereas those
that are thawed can be emptied to a covered concentrate storage area.
Facilities for the thawing of concentrate containers will be installed at Pine Point to use waste
heat to allow the thawing of concentrate so that it can be unloaded from the containers over the
year. . While it would be advantageous to unload and return the container to the TLP as quickly
as possible to reduce the number of containers in the circuit it is unlikely that this will be
possible and the current plan is to have enough containers to have a full set of empty containers
and a full set of full containers.
The shipment of concentrate in closed containers eliminates the risks of dusting and is expected
to reduce the potential for loss of concentrate during transportation.
POWER
The planned installed electrical load at the Pine Point facility is 10.4 MW for the 1,000 tpd case
and 11.4 MW at the 2,000 tpd rate broken down as shown in Table 18-16.
Technical Report 43-101 – March 13, 2011 Page 18-67
Prepared by Avalon Rare Metals Inc.