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Gold/Mining/Energy : Micro-Fine Gold Plays - Franklin Lake, etc.
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To: Tim Hall who wrote (314)1/31/1997 4:25:00 PM
From: Terry Christopher   of 615
 
Thall;
Reading your message forced me to break out my old chem texts - its been six years now since my last chem course.

Pt and the other PGE's are transition metals not noble metals. The only reference to 'noble' i could find was re noble gases. Noble gases, as you know, have their outer most electron shell completely filled, thus are nonreactive under normal conditions. Transition metals do not have their outer shell filled and thus can react.

PGE's resist forming compounds with oxygen - CAN YOU THEIR VALUE. They have high melting points and form extremely hard alloys - MORE VALUE.

Thall, you seem to be slowly breaking and it looks as if you are begining to accept the possibility that there is Pt in those sands and TONS and TONS of it. On the one hand you state that "Not one ounce has been produced to date." and on the other you say "... there is a cartel conspiring against these deposits ...".

Its seems you are wrong on the first account. On the cartel story, would you agree that if there is a cartel formed that the members of such an organization have some reason to do so. I would suggest that the members of this 'troubled' cartel are industry people who, while dislike what is going to happen are believers that there is Pt in those sands. This would treaten their livelyhood. Are you secretly a member of this cartel.

You may be an expert in convential mining, however, your knowledge of technology is definitely amiss. As a geologists and being involved in a hightech venture i can tell you that the rate of technological advance is far greater than the advancement of the geologic mind.

TC
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