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  • Mining firm making liquid fuel from coal

    Patricia Liles, Mining News Editor|Updated Jul 4, 2004

    Silverado Gold Mines Ltd., a Vancouver, British Columbia-based gold mining and exploration company, is working to enter a new industrial market with its promotion of a coal treatment process, which produces a liquid fuel capable of being burned in oil-fired power generation plants. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Silverado Green Fuel Inc., the company is promoting in Asian markets its hydrothermal treatment process for low-rank or sub-bituminous coal found in huge quantities in Alaska. According to a June 21 company...