Hey gerald,
I resemble that remark.
You mean this stuff or was there more?
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By: Oldminer
10 Apr 2000, 12:10 PM EDT Msg. 3239 of 3272
10- Guido Paravicini: Direct examination
[Guido Paravicini, has been retained as a consultant by GE. This is his sworn testimony given in Federal Court in Denver, 2/15/00. Judge Zita L. Weinshienk presiding. Condensed to accommodate space restraints.]
Ms. Corporon: - "Can you describe for the Court the procedure that you used to take samples in the field at Cangalli when you were doing field work between April of '97 and May of '98?"
Mr. Paravicini: - "On the basis of the work we did for the previous two reports, we developed a new system of doing this sampling and the processing of the samples and the calculating of them, which varies, differs from the usual way of doing things.
"When we were -- I said in -- during doing these previous jobs, we noticed a very, very important factor that not only the gold was free in the slimes, we call it, the small-sized particles, the sands, the clays, but also it was in the rocks themselves, in the stones themselves. And this was not only because of the job we did before, but in some other parts of the country we had -- I noticed this. For instance, I did a very big work, as I told you, with COMIBOL in the border with Brazil. And there, I first noticed this in 1970, '71, '72."
Q - "You first noticed that there was gold in the larger particles as well as in the sands and clays?"
A - "Right. And also, we have noticed that it -- the fines, fine gold, small particles of gold -- it was very difficult to have a good recovery with the usual means of concentrating them in the field with pans, with the bateas, we call them in Spanish."
Q -"Those are gold mining -- gold pans?"
A - "Right. And also with the sluices and the smaller sluices and all that; so we felt it was definitely necessary to take those things into account."
Q - "Now, when you say we, do you mean you and your geologists in the field?"
A - "Right. Especially myself, because I was aware from long ago of this problem -- not problem -- these new finds that were confirmed in these two previous reports."
Q - "Let me ask you before you go on: Is the property at Cangalli the property that Golden Eagle asked you to research and assess, is that property a unique mining location?"
A - "Yes. For instance, this is one of the main features of this property that makes it so unique. I would say one of the features, the main feature is the bigness of it. But, the consequences of having a big proportion of the gold in very small particles, you have, being such a big deposit, you have all the ways, from large nuggets of gold, all the way in sizes of the gold particles to the very small ones. And, even the microscopic ones, which took us to speak of the invisible gold, which I don't like very much, being an engineer, to speak of invisible things, but has been adopted this name in the literature."
Q - "When you say invisible gold, is that something that is sometimes referred to as micron gold or micro-fine gold?"
A - "Right."
Q - "And that is gold that you cannot see with an unaided human eye?"
A - "That is the case. And we found that a substantial proportion of the total of the gold in Bolivia and especially in the Tipuani River Valley was made of these very fine, small particles of gold. So, if we wanted to do a better sampling and a better processing of these samples, we had to devise, to develop, as I told you, new methods not used up to then in the field work. And we did that. And it's explained in the report."
Q - "Okay. In your opinion, did the presence of micro-fine gold in this area make this a unique deposit?"
A - "Yes. Well, it is one of the features.
"Let me finish with the other idea. You see, to make again a summary, we took not only the usual thing to take into account, the concentrates of the field samples, the pan concentrates. We took also what we called the oversized, the bigger particles, and the tailings, the smaller particles. We took those two fractions, we call them, into account for the calculations. The usual way of doing these things was to take only the concentrates, the pan concentrates, and you would reject while you were panning -- you would reject the oversized, the big particles, the big pebbles, and tailings that you were throwing away while you were concentrating in the pan. Just throw away.
"We didn't do that. We saved both parts, both fractions, and we sampled and made the laboratory assays not only for the pan concentrates, but also for these two other sizes."
Please sir, I want some more.
;o)
Ron
Didn't know there were two ways to spell Dee-Dee. Lets see, dd, DD, dD, Dd. Okay four ways. |
