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Gold/Mining/Energy : BRE-X, Indonesia, Ashanti Goldfields, Strong Companies.
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To: bert who wrote (13372)4/11/1997 2:39:00 PM
From: Jason Ellis   of 28369
 
The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday, April 10, edition that officials of
Calgary based Bre-X Minerals said yesterday that the company delivered
uncrushed rock samples from Busang to its Indonesian assay laboratory.
Reporters Allan Robinson and Michael Den Tandt write that this disclosure seems
to reduce the possibility that any tampering took place before the samples reached
the lab. Industry experts told the paper that it is very difficult to salt or tamper with
rock samples before crushing. According to George Duncan, an assayer in
Kirkland Lake, Ontario, it is difficult but not impossible to salt raw drill core using
a technique that involves spraying drill cores with a gold-chloride solution before
they're crushed. But this theory doesn't hold up if Bre-X's descriptions of Busang
gold - that it is coarse and nuggety - are true. Yesterday, Bre-X VP Stephen
McNulty revealed that there are three types of gold on its property in Indonesia:
particles that are rounded, free gold that is nuggety, and a third undefined shape.
The company never made this clear before, it said.

I distantly got the impression that Globe & Mail doesn't like BXM, and that their comments are always -ve or trying to be -ve. Like BXM already grabbed the rock sample to the lab, and the Globe still manage to dig out some guy to say "difficult but NOT IMPOSSIBLE to salt.." Come on, give me a break.
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