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To: Miner who wrote (7013)	3/8/2002 2:02:11 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11802

Most ore will fire assay. Ores with selenium, tellurium, clay, carbon, or are too refractory will not assay well. If the release size is too small, then the ore will not assay well. Certainly nano clusters qualify in this regard, if they do exist. Any atomically bound gold in arsenopyrite, telluriudes, or pyrite may be difficult to assay. It is said that a high temperture furnace will not pick up much gold in a high telluride sample at all, and there are many stories out of Kirkland Lake and Telluride Colorado to confirm this. It is said in texts on assaying that if your tellurides are below 3% then there should be no trouble with a nitre assay. Nevertheless volatilization losses can be expected. An argentiferous lead collector might be called for. I would think that nano cluster gold would be some hard to pick out of the rock. However aluminum atomically bound in nepheline syenite is routinely concentrated by chlorine/sulphate gas roasting by Russian enterprise. The metal values here are 5% or better. If a combination of roasting with gas and microwave bombardment were done I could be persuaded to believe some of these little devils could report to the gasification. But afterwards I would want to woken up and given a glass of warm milk. EC<:-}