Originally posted by Midnight26
Well that'll help.....
Fire assayof slag without a collector from an additional metallurgical test from EMD -011 from 2-6 metres yields104.58g/t Pd and 9.11g/t Pt. Resmelt of the slag with a collector extracts 79.78g/t Au, 534.40g/t Ag, 35.23g/t Pd and 10.25g/t Pt
...so smelting of the sample without a collector renders it suitable for fire assay.
Seems they spent a lot of time to process a puny sample of 5 kg in a overly complicated 'alchemy' process, in the real world what would their secret extraction process cost per ounce?