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surface of the coal. The coal can be taken, while still wet, to a thermal plant, burned, and the metals recovered from the ash.’’

A similar process could be used to remove cyanide and thiocyanates from. the Caroline Gold Mill which has recorded cyanide levels of

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800 parts per million (PPM) in effluents while permissable levels are only one to two PPM. Fadl is now filtering mill effluents in her SFU Jaboratory and initial ex- periments show that the coal captures about 85 per cent of the cyanide.

Another promising ap- plication for coal filters is in oil processing, an industry in- famous for injecting a toxic

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THE CANADIAN Women’s Field Hockey Association will be holding a= special Olympic Dinner to honor the memebers of Canada’s women’s Olympic team. Date for the dinner is May 4, with cocktails being served at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m. It is being held at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, 3811 Point Grey Road, Van- couver. Ticket prices are $35 adult and $25 students. All proceeds go to the Olympic field hockey team.

Last year the Canadian women’s national team shot to international prominence when they finished second at the World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Earlier this year, the team’s success was rewarded with an invitation to be one of six na- tions competing for Olympic medals at Los Angeles (July 29 to August 12).

To honor the individual ef- forts that comprise the team results, the dinner will see the CWFHA present Olympic rings to the B.C. residents who have been selected to the

Olympic squad. Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be Steve Armitage of CBC Sports, while the guest speakers will be Dr. Bob Hindmarch, Chef de Mission for the Canadian Olympic team in Sarajevo, and Marina van der Merwe, the Canadian national women’s team coach.

For information and tickets call 288-3838 or the

B.C. Women’s Field Hockey Association at Sports B.C. 687-3333.

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fuel oil byproduct, vanadium, into the environ-

ment. The twist is that Canada currently imports about 200,000 pounds of

vanadium each year for use as an alloy in the manufac- ture of steel. Coal could again be used to recover this toxic element and the vanadium used to lessen our reliance on imports.

Fadl says the overwhelm-

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ing success of research using coal filters, not only here but with similar processes in Japan, makes it difficult to understand why Canadian governments have -been so reluctant to fund test projects to determine economic feasibility. The choice bet- ween continuing to pollute the environment and developing a new and positive use for coal would

B13 - Sunday, May 6, 1984 - North Shore News

Successtul research with coal filters

appear to be simple but Fadl believes the game of politics is responsible for the stall

‘‘There are patents of 24 years standing by a 73-year- old inventor from White Rock which apparently give him rights to 100 million tons of Hat Creek coal for 21 years to be used for purposes other than thermal power generation. He claims this right was granted in 1966 but

it seems both the federal and provincial governments are willing to tolerate needless

pollution rather than agree to

some kind of settlement with the patent holder. Discus- sions have been going on for years to resolve the stalemate and it’s most discouraging to be in the position of depen- ding on the United States, via the EPA, to complete research on a process

developed in Canada.’’

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