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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Platinum & Gold (GPGI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Robert J Mullenbach who wrote (11464)	9/23/1999 4:03:00 PM
From: Ptaskmaster	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

"Not many new faces here, asking good questions." I don't qualify as a new face here, but you be the judge of the questions: (1) What is the history of the Oro Grande Mine under Sonny Lamont's ownership, and association with GPGI? (2) Were there any other controls on the "five hundred preliminary assays ... run on the materials of the Oro Grande" property other than those enumerated by Thomas (1988: 4-5)? Specifically, do the samples from the 100 ft level in the mine (#s 79, 81, 173, 174, 177, 178, 181, 182, etc) taken by Dr. Jeff Kurtz and Mr. Michael Thomas qualify as arms length, correctly collected and treated samples by an independent third party with reasonable assay results? For the subsequent INCO report, "previous assay results by Global were to be ignored for the purposes of [the] study" of the geological setting of the Oro Grande Mine (Fischer, 1991: 1). The resulting "encouraging conclusions ignore Global's much higher PGE assay results," of which "even the order of PGE levels is in question." Global's assays are considered to reflect natural but inhomogeneous samples (Fischer, 1991: 42). "In light of the encouraging geological findings and strongly anomalous Pt values in a variety of rocks, it is recommended that a proper, systematic sampling and analytical program be conducted on the Oro Grande property. Sampling should start with the immediate mine environment and should include the platiniferous, faulted ultramafic wall rocks to the east. Sampling by drilling is advisable in light of the postulated hydrothermal vent and feeder system, the unexposed pluton and considering the lack of any information below 150 m depth (Fischer, 1991: 43). (3) Was any part of "a proper, systematic sampling and analytical program" ever carried out by GPGI or any other entity or person? Ptask