Loading ...Shipment of gold ore bound for the Port of Olympia
A shipment of gold ore is set to arrive at the Port of Olympia early Friday, the third new cargo at the port in the past two years, port officials announced Wednesday.
Other recent cargo handled by the port: dairy cows and organic corn. Regular cargo at the port is controversial fracking sand and raw logs.
When one thinks of gold, perhaps gold bars come to mind. But gold ore looks a bit like a pile of soil, Marine Terminal Director Len Faucher said.
The customer is Northern Ireland’s Dalradian Gold Ltd., which loaded the ship Trinity Borg with 15,000 tons of the stuff. Once the ship is here, the ore will be unloaded into dump trucks. The trucks will then dump the ore along the east side of the marine terminal. Faucher said a front-end loader will load trucks that will haul it to its final destination: a smelter in the Eastern Washington community of Republic.
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