Elena JV will NOT be pouring at ALL. It will quickly be shipping carbon columns to the refinery for stripping and getting contracted 90% of the PM value by its assay and confirmed by the metal extracted in their pour. We will now be seeing no metal at all when the plated carbon leaves the gate. All that tubing just as the MC filters are in series and closing the valve leads solution to the next and that unloaded recycled with new carbon loaded. Current 3 cells will be expanded as more needed to take on the full 10K daily planned with time as leach pads are loaded. PR mentions expanded pad area. Loading ramps will not be located up on the pad areas as in past. MC future use is now iffy. Carbon load is 661# each cell or a near short ton in all 3.
"NEXT STEPS
* Will be increased more Activated Charcoal Columns and implemented a system of filtration in order to increase the flow from 4 m3 / hr to 20 m3 / hr . * The irrigation process will be reactivated includes the extension of the leaching pad * Complete the 38,000 tons carrying material from Julio to the leaching pad assuring high values * Build and implement the electrolysis process (working on that) • Will be evaluated if the Merrill Crowe process can be reactivated in parallel or just Works with Activated Charcoal Column System (ADR) * Will be installed a filter between the leaching pad and pregnant pond in order to
avoid Clay on pregnant solution and saturation in the Charcoal"
Now consider a 1/4 teaspoon of activated carbon has an acre of surface to plate and are a LOT of 1/4 teaspoons in a ton of just about anything. No laughing activated matter.
"Activated carbon, a material produced from carbon-rich sources, offers an incredibly porous surface structure, which creates a vast surface area (about an acre per ¼ teaspoon) on which to adsorb materials"
