I very much doubt that but thats only a viewpoint Ive reached...

I very much doubt that but thats only a viewpoint Ive reached based on observing how Novo go about things.

Hennigh advised us that this phase of testing was over and they had sent off samples to be analysed to see how much gold the Tomra missed, results expected in the new year. While it is important to know what gold was missed and in what form it is in, its not likely to be the critcal factor unless its missing an awfull lot of gold. And unfortunately it obviously appears that it must be missing a lot OR they have NFI!

There are two classes of gold that the Tomra will miss-

1) Gold that the Tomra will never detect because its too fine or too heavily encased in matrix.

2) Gold that is detectable sometimes by the Tomra but the machine misses on one pass but picks up on a second or third pass.

Improvement to the recovery of both can be made by doing things like experimenting with crushing, rerunning ore, and other treatments not yet tried.

I can say with cetainty that if someone like George Mehri was involved, he'd be panning ore or using other readily available methods to determine whats missed and whats recovered, and working the Tomra to death including running slightly different ore ( from different locations) etc untill he had it all worked it out!

Not Novo, they have to know if they are missing 25.765% of the gold or 25.325% before thinking about running some more trials.

Id be aiming to get the Tomra sorted out as best I could so it could be used for bulk sampling asap. If its ready before say permitting is complete thats no load to carry.

KAIs SP performance has been of late tied to Novos sucess or failure and if this continues my view is we are in for a long wait.

In the meantime that wont be helped by Ramper Bobs bullshit ranting that are now appearing every day. While I admit he does get some traction amongst the Novo fanboys on CEO, I dont think the general market out there, even in Canada tolerates obvious bullshit like his statements that all the gold is in the bottom 40cm and grades 25g/tonne (when the Novo has clearly shown completly different results). When the bubble formed 12 months ago therexwas not much information on conglomerate and wishfull thinking stories could not be contradicted. Not today. A lot of people were burnt in the bubble and they wont reenter on bullshit stories, and Ramper Bob is loosing credibility at the rate of knots!

KAI could do some work of there own with Tomra or similar companies in an attempt to dislodge the SP tie with Novo, but management seem content with things the way they are. Can only hope things change.