Akvtech, I'm not your servant, call Mr Atwood yourself and ask him, or talk to Sabrina @ G.E. 801-619-9320. fax 801-619-1747.
But here's a little fact for you, Digr has called Golden Eagle a scam many times and has had a suit filed against him. This Digr person has no right to do this, nor does he have the right to take out what I consider his own personal vendetta against this company...
Evidence, he claims that there are only trace amounts of fine gold in the overburdend and that the company could only recover 10 percent of costs if they run all of the material through. He then goes on and calls the company a scam.
Fact, we have recovered over .5 grams per ton from surface material (overburdend) which is excellent! in other words that's a lot more than trace.
Also, Mr Atwoods plan calls for only 1/4 gram from within chaco (that is blockcaving from within). The grades from within the mountain will more then likely be higher than the 1/2 gram at the surface, but even if they are the same we are already at twice were we need to be. Also the palnt capacity is increasing steadly, a PR was just out which claimed that we had close to 4k tons of material processed in 1 day, our goal is 11k a day at 1/4 gram to be profitable.
Of course you realize the higher the grade the less tonnage will have to be processed in order to be profitable, but we will stick with the 11k regardless.