Mexus Gold US (MXSG)

[gitreal]

Some folks don't understand the purpose of bottle rolls. You don't run bottle roll tests to determine the assays of what you are loading on a pad. You do bottle rolls BEFORE you load the pad, and ideally, BEFORE you start mining.

So yes, you are correct, the numbers are meaningless without context. Bottle rolls are part of the metallurgical testing process to determine ideal crushing/milling, and to help design the chemistry of the pad. A bottle roll test tells you what the rate of recovery is - so you need an assay before the test, and an assay after the test, for comparison. Where is that info presented in the PR? It isn't.

30% recovery is a failure.....85% recovery is pretty good. Those are the kinds of numbers that should be discussed in a PR; not the nonsensical "average" that they presented, which wasn't an average at all......it was a range. And it said nothing about recovery rates, which is why you do bottle rolls.

Assuming they really did bottle rolls and aren't just making stuff up again, Mexus appears to be doing metallurgy on the fly, in mid-stream. Once you have loaded a pad with material.....the bottle roll tests become somewhat pointless. You certainly cannot adjust the crushing rate after the fact.

Once again, a hobby miner at work.