Raptor Technology Group (fka RAPT)

[Heywoody]

So ,in that regard, I'd like to learn that there is more value that can be gotten out of the rock that is being ground up by SFMI, but I gather from the totality of your posts on the chemistry that the process RAPT uses is probably not usable when the precious mineralization is in the kind of rock being ground up at SFMI.

Oh contrare(?)........

Imagine an ore body, in general terms like this. Imagine you have a wet sponge lying on your countertop, then you take a teaspoon of purple dye or food coloring and pour it on to the middle of the sponge. Naturally there will be a very colored spot (the main ore body) in the middle of the sponge that gets lighter in color as the dye travels outward from the center of that sponge (the lighter color being the tailings that werent processed). A mining company sees that colored spot and thats what they go after.

http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt97/Goldenmeister/Muck1.jpg

Follow that link at look at the picture, this is in the very beginning before I started harvesting the minerals. Note that just above the hole there is a "V" shape which is two seperate veins joining together which consists of rusty iron enriched veins of gold, quartz, cuprous, sulpher, pgm's etc. Then in between and above the V shape you can see the grey rock. Generally in the past a miner would go after those two veins, do a gravity type seperation which pulls out for the most part anything specific gravity 10 or heavier depending on the method of gravity seperation. The "waste" rock or material that didnt get caught up in the "heavies" would then be discarded. But there are plenty of those minerals in that waste, its just so disemminated in the lighter rock (tailings) that it doesnt get captured by the recovery. That is what RAPT is going after but they are using the same method that mother nature used (for the most part) that placed those minerals there in the originally. Its my belief that nearly all tailings that came from near the ore body will bear some content of precious metals. Know this however, sometimes there is the case where core drilling is utilized to discover an ore body where the drill may go through any number of feet in distance to actually get to the ore body then they drift (tunnel) in to the ore body itself which would yield tons of useless waste rock.

So, the richest tails are going to be those tails where someone is following an ore body or vein as opposed to just the excess rock which might have been simply blasted out of the way to get to the ore body. All of this is predictable and for the most part visible upon inspection of the tails. The way the material is removed as someone is drifting in or following a vein will be removed, stacked or piled hopefully systematically. What I mean by that is if there is a million tons of tails one should be able to zero in on the richest sections of the piles. An experienced miner can for the most part identify these sections simply upon visible inspection. I wonder if RAPT is hiring, lol, I'd love to fly around the country kicking tailing piles.