El Capitan Precious Metals Inc (ECPN)

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The hired Clyde Smith. He sent samples off to an independent lab which confirmed presence of gold, silver, and platinum group metals.

You mean AuRic Lab? LOL.....even El Capitan had to admit their methods were unreliable and not industry standard, and they were no longer going to use them. Have you ever read about the BLM's test of labs across the country, where assay labs were sent samples to analyze? AuRic found almost no platinum in a standard sample that did indeed contain significant platinum. And yet they found platinum in a sample collected from gravel taken from the front yard of a BLM employee. Nailed.

The Forest Service even found Ag in samples 38 times the average crustal abundance.

Only one sample out of six USFS samples had detectable silver. And if you consider a buck and a half worth of silver in a ton of "ore" to be meaningful.....well, that explains a lot.