Evidence based speculation, page-33

But the rock is also getting fed into the smelt from what they are saying. So that’s tonnes of silicate rock which presumably also needs to be melted (at 1750 degrees) to extract the gold which by previous announcements seems to exist in some strange ionic form at levels which are likely to be at sub-2 micron scale (ie defined by the width of the beam of the scanning electron microscope).

Can you explain why regular smelting of gold needs the gold to be concentrated to 20oz/t but here they are just piling in unconcentarted material? Can you also explain why in previous schemes they used nitric acid alone to dissolve the gold whereas it is commonly known that only a combination of nitric acid and hydrochloric acid can dissolve and precipitate out gold, neither acid can do it by itself?

I am not a metallurgist but every time I look to metallurgical sources I find a contradiction somewhere.

Do you really think it should be up to investors to try and calculate the energy consumed to smelt the gold. Why aren’t some of these basic facts being told to investors, even simple stuff like how abrasive the rock is to grind. Stuff most other metallurgical studies tend to deliver in spades?

I’m glad you are seeing it because I’m not. Esh