Copper King Mining Corporation fka CPRKQ

[ThunderBell]

I have seen it posted on this board over and over and over again that:

1: MD and the rest of the original team at WUCC were stupid and pig-headed enough to ignore their own data and spend millions building the completely wrong mill for the ore they had.

and,

2: A better mill would have been an SX/EW plant but they did not even consider that option.

The answer to both of those posits is WRONG!!!

(posit >v.(posited, positing) 1 put forward as fact or as a basis for argument. ->(posit something on) base something on the truth of (a particular assumption)). - For those of you who think I misspelled "post."

Yes much of the ore is Oxide ore and yes most oxide ore is processed by SX/EW type plants. But, the ore in the deposits they were working is also filled with lime and other carbon materials. What does this mean? It means the ore eats acid at a tremendous rate. Such a high rate that it would be very expensive to heap leach that ore, so expensive that it could easily cost over $5 to produce one pound of copper.

There are other processes that may be used (both in flotation and solvent extraction plants) but there are NO easy solutions with this particular ore because it is a very complex poly mineral ore.

And, consider that the existing mill did produce several thousand tons of copper concentrate (true it missed the optimal specs by a few percentage points). It produced that concentrate 100% by floatation. Copper concentrate is being produced from oxide ore in flotation mills in at least a few places in the world using a sulphidising float process - see one example in the planning stages here: http://us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za/assets/articles/attachments/19821_results_of_feasibility_study_jabal_sayid.pdf


So, what about the ESHC? They have taken the right approach. Hire the best and the brightest in mining, metallurgy, mill design, geology, geophysics and mine engineering. Take the advice of the true experts and come up with a plan and a strategy.

The existing mill can produce and it can produce profitably. It just has to be done right.

If all the "experts" on this board are so wrong about the simplicity of an SX/EW plant being the "be all & end all" for this project - what else are they wrong about?

Just askin'