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Gold/Mining/Energy : Canmine resources -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marshhawk who wrote (1700)	8/13/1999 11:32:00 AM
From: Ralph Kern	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2769

Way over my head! As Sheppard has exclusive on Canmine cobalt, and carbonate which Canmine produces is specifically suited for certain industrial uses, I am not sure that specifics of other cobalt use is relevant except perhaps as a general marker of overall cobalt demand and price which would affect Canmine in the end. Perhaps someone else on the thread could continue the discussion. It is nickel which will open the blue sky for us all.

To: Marshhawk who wrote (1700)	8/14/1999 6:48:00 AM
From: Aurum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2769

Marshhawk, the US Geological Services has a great site that includes detailed information on most resource commodities. The address of the cobalt data is: minerals.usgs.gov I am now inclining towards your view that the lateritic nickel projects are not certain to succeed. I previously said the process was not rocket science. That is true of the chemistry side of it. However, I have now discovered that the Murrin Murrin autoclaves work at 250 degrees centigrade and at a pressure of 40 atmospheres. The temperature and pressure are a lot higher than I had assumed from other data. The engineering of the autoclave section is rocket science. Not only is the environment very extreme, but the ore has to be run through the autoclaves at a staggering rate (as a batch process). You are right in questioning if the autoclaves can handle the job.