High Tide Resources Provides Update on the Labrador West Iron Ore Project
TORONTO, Oct. 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- High Tide Resources Corp. (“High Tide” or the “Company”) (CSE: HTRC) is pleased to provide an update on activities at its flagship Labrador West Iron Ore Project located in the prolific southern Labrador Trough.
The Company has recently shipped approximately 5.6 tonnes of coarse reject drill core samples from its 2022 drill campaign for beneficiation and metallurgical testing. The testwork will focus on producing a Direct Reduction (“DR”) grade pellet, an increasingly sought-after sale product in low-carbon steelmaking.
The samples have been delivered to Studiengesellschaft für Eisenerzaufbereitung GmbH & Co. KG (“SGA”) in Germany, which will conduct the testwork.
Founded in 1922, SGA is a globally recognized service and research centre specializing in iron ore beneficiation, pelletizing, sintering, and metallurgical testing. Operated as a joint venture of the German steel industry, SGA provides industry-leading facilities, technical expertise, and decades of experience in the processing of iron ore feedstock for blast furnace and direct reduction applications.
Steve Roebuck, Director & CEO of High Tide states; “This represents an important milestone for the Company and its Labrador West Iron Ore Project. The results from this testwork will form a critical input to the upcoming PEA, paving the way for swift project advancement.”
Beneficiation and Metallurgical Testwork
This work aims to test the ability of the Labrador West deposit to produce a DR-grade pellet product while maximizing iron recovery and lowering deleterious elements to within specifications required by major steel producers. The DR-grade pellets will also be tested to confirm their performance in the Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) process.
The upcoming testwork program will include, crushing and grinding to liberate the iron minerals and mineral separation using magnetic separation, gravity separation and froth flotation.
Future metallurgical testing will use proven technologies that rely on natural gas as the main energy source and reductant. In addition, the DR-grade concentrate, and pellets will be tested in next-generation green iron processes that use hydrogen as a clean energy source and reductant.
Labrador West Iron Project
The Labrador West Iron Project hosts a NI 43-101 inferred iron resource of 655 Mt @ 28.84% Fe and is comprised of one mineral licence (99 mineral claims), 2,475 hectares in size. The area was explored and drilled by Rio Tinto Exploration from 2010 to 2012, and then by High Tide Resources in 2020 & 2022. To date, approximately 7,500 m of core in 27 completed holes has been drilled on the property. Located less than 20 kilometres northeast of Labrador City, the Project is proximal to all the critical infrastructure required to explore and develop a major new iron deposit in the heart of the southern Labrador Trough. Experience by major producers operating in the Labrador Trough indicates that hematite and magnetite in this geological setting are readily recoverable using modern, industry standard beneficiation methods, that produce high purity, desirable iron concentrates.
Iron and the Western Labrador Trough Infrastructure Advantage
The Labrador Trough of western Labrador and adjoining Quebec constitutes Canada’s primary iron producing district and is host to world-class deposits that have been mined for more than half a century. These have produced over 2 billion tonnes of iron ore to date and are considered to have very significant growth potential. The high quality of the deposits in the region allows for a wide range in product diversity, which includes premium fines, concentrate and pellet grades.
The Property is strategically located near the mining communities of Wabush and Labrador City in the province of Newfoundland & Labrador and Fermont in Quebec. The area is home to Champion Iron Ore’s Bloom Lake Mine, ArcelorMittal’s Mont-Wright Mine, Tacora Resources’ Scully Mine, and Rio Tinto IOC’s Carol Lake Mine.
The Wabush and Labrador City region is very well served with skilled labour and a highway as well as access to abundant low-cost hydroelectricity and a common carrier railway. The railway has 80 million tonnes per year of capacity for transport of iron products to the deep-water port of Sept Isles, Quebec, which provides year-round access to global markets.
About High Tide
High Tide is focused on and committed to the development of mineral projects critical to infrastructure development using industry best practices combined with a strong social license from local communities. High Tide owns a 100% interest in the Labrador West Iron Project which hosts a NI 43-101 Inferred iron resource of 655 Mt @ 28.84% Fe and is located adjacent to IOCC’s Carol Lake Mine in Labrador City, NL. This resource is exposed at surface and was pit constrained for an open-pit mining scenario. The Technical Report was filed on SEDAR on April 6, 2023 and was authored by Ryan Kressall M.Sc., P.Geo, Matthew Herrington, M.Sc., P.Geo, Catharine Pelletier, P.Eng. and Jeffrey Cassoff P.Eng.
The Company also owns a 100% interest in the Lac Pegma copper-nickel-cobalt deposit located 50 kilometres southeast of Fermont, Quebec.
Further details on the Company, including a NI 43-101 technical report on the Labrador West Iron property can be found on the Company’s website at www.hightideresources.com.
Qualified Person
The technical information contained in this news release has been approved by Steve Roebuck, P.Geo., Director, President and CEO of High Tide, who is a Qualified Person as defined in "National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects."
For further information, please contact:
Steve Roebuck
Director, President & CEO
Email: sroebuck@hightideresources.com
Neither Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Forward looking information
This news release includes certain "forward-looking statements" which are not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking statements include estimates and statements that describe the Company’s future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the effect that the Company or management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Forward-looking statements may be identified by such terms as “believes”, “anticipates”, “expects”, “estimates”, “may”, “could”, “would”, “will”, or “plan”. Since forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Although these statements are based on information currently available to the Company, the Company provides no assurance that actual results will meet management’s expectations. Risks, uncertainties and other factors involved with forward-looking information could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward looking information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, developing the Labrador West Iron Project into the next producer , the acquisition of low cost and potentially high reward lithium projects, the ability to keep exploration costs low, expected access to regional lithium processing hubs, the Company’s objectives, goals or future plans, statements, exploration results, potential mineralization, the estimation of mineral resources, exploration and mine development plans, timing of the commencement of operations and estimates of market conditions. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to: commodity prices supply chain disruptions, restrictions on labour and workplace attendance and local and international travel, failure to receive requisite approvals in respect of the foregoing, failure to identify mineral resources, failure to convert estimated mineral resources to reserves, the inability to complete a feasibility study which recommends a production decision, the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals, political risks, inability to fulfill the duty to accommodate First Nations and other indigenous peoples, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets, inflation, changes in exchange rates, fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in the development of projects, capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates and the other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, and those risks set out in the Company’s public documents filed on SEDAR. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.
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