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Gold/Mining/Energy : Winspear Resources
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To: John Paquet who wrote (11878)1/14/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: TP  Read Replies (2) of 26850
 
AJ:
People are placing too much emphasis on the CF results. Caustic fusion gives you a total carat weight, not size distribution. It crushes the sample, therefore you loose the carat value information because the larger stones are pulverized.
Diamond deposits are not like gold deposits where all or most of the gold is recoverable and saleable. Caustic fusion results are more for an academic reason than necessarily an economic one. It gives you the total carats, which is not what you use to develop a grade for the deposit.
Processing the large bulk sample is only way to get a representative size distribution of the diamonds which then will develop the grade and value of the deposit. So wait for the big results, they will tell the big picture.

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