In late June, Birch Mountain Resources Ltd, Calgary, received an independent valuation report carried out by AMEC Mining & Metals on its Hammerstone limestone project located in the Athabasca oil sands region of northeastern Alberta. The valuation was conducted concurrently with a prefeasibility update study that considered new aggregate and reagent products in addition to those incorporated in the original February 2005 Hammerstone prefeasibility study.
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