Replies to post #39372 on Copper King Mining Corporation fka CPRKQ

[Johnny4profits]

I guess that we all understand the point of the difference between "completed production of in excess of 500 tons of concentrates" and what might have read, "completed production and shipped in excess of 500 tons of concentrates during the month of October". Not a mute point. The truth is still an unknown. You can fantasize and assume all you want.

And here again, what does this mean? "Presently preparing to ship another 250 tons of concentrate to the receiving smelter? Note, ambiguous is vague by accident or intent. "Preparing to ship?" The loaders at the actual mine are preparing for shipment! The entire operation is preparing for shipment.

While 0.0099 is certainly better than 0.0092 or 0.0085, the credibility of press releases and financial reporting is what will attract new investors resulting in the pps we are looking for.

Rather than rant the point or points, I'll drop it now and attempt to cease critiquing the press releases. There is no benefit in doing so. I said not long ago that we'd be best to trust the mining to the miners and I should believe the same for Copper King management and Charles Moskowitz as the PR man. Either that or sell my position. I'll not do the latter because I am still convinced that this is one of the better investments I have ever made and that in time I will be exceedingly glad for it.........

[waspwf123]

According to this link, copper oxide ore is usually extracted with the leaching process...i think they are inputing copper oxide mostly. maybe this accounts for the recovery rate??? the cementation process should help and the other stuff???

"Oxidised copper ore bodies may be treated via several processes, with hydrometallurgical processes used to treat oxide ores dominated by copper carbonate minerals such as azurite and malachite, and other soluble minerals such as phosphates like chrysocolla, or sulfates such as atacamite and so on.

Such oxide ores are usually leached by sulfuric acid, usually using a heap leach or dump leach process to liberate the copper minerals into a solution of sulfuric acid laden with copper sulfate in solution. The copper sulfate solution (the pregnant leach solution) is then stripped of copper via a solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX-EW) plant, with the barred sulfuric acid recycled back on to the heaps. Commonly sulfuric acid is used as a leachant for copper oxide, although it is possible to use water, particularly for ores rich in ultra-soluble sulfate minerals.[citation needed]

In general froth flotation is not used to concentrate copper oxide ores, as oxide minerals are not responsive to the froth flotation chemicals or process (ie; they do not bind to the kerosene-based chemicals). Copper oxide ores have occasionally been treated via froth floatation via sulfidation of the oxide minerals with certain chemicals which react with the oxide mineral particles to produce a thin rime of sulfide (usually chalcocite), which can then be activated by the froth floatation plant."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_extraction_techniques