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Re: On2them post# 32368

Tuesday, 08/25/2009 4:31:36 PM

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 4:31:36 PM

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The storage and the treatment of it...

Walt did say they would not leave dry con uncovered and in the elements....(I asked that specific question is why I ignored this pile of material other than trying to figure out how much ore should be around.)

But even beyond the answer from Walt the evidence I see that it is not saleable is the treatment of this grade of concentrate. If it was saleable...I think they could well afford to buy themselves a $200 tarp and pile a couple rocks around the edges to keep it from blowing away and possibly getting rained on. It shows evidence of a loader driving out on it and pushing it around and contaminating it with regular ole' dirt. (I still think they should buy the tarp...pretty sloppy in my opinion but whatever...it is probably not that much money being lost to the elements.)

Now as far as reprocessing...the only way I see them able to do that is to pour it into the chutes out front. These chutes and the conveyor as you can see are designed for gravel like consistancy in the feed material. Without that material consistancy the gravity feeds will not work down to the conveyors and then you have the chance of gumming up the works with wetter light weight material. (Redesign with a shaker screen would probably be required to get the required throughput without causing a clog or large lumps of material messing up the works by sticking to the feed chutes and conveyor.)

This reprocessing of semi-dry material would definitely interrupt the "normal" flow of the gravel sized ore into the ball mills. So you have just screwed up the whole dial-in process for the mill.

I am almost absolutely positive this reprocessing would cause more headaches than it is worth. They have plenty of high grade ore to crush and feed into the plant without introducing another variable into an already difficult process.

I predict there will be a shipment ready no later than Mid-September based on the mill run rates and the recovery rates that I observed. I am very confidant at this point in time that we will see a good September. The learning curve is behind us and the typical maintenance issues break-in period has been painfully learned.

*****Prediction based on math/real data points now..so no guessing or speculation.

All I want for Christmas is a little transparency...everybody sing....along.


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