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To: vitalremains who wrote (1261)	7/22/2013 2:34:49 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22852

Eveleigh clarifies the grade thing -- it's not what percentage you start out with, it's the purity you can achieve -- here, so I'm not too worried about that ... graphiteinvestingnews.com And I'm willing to accept that it's hydrothermal if the guy from Lakehead U says it is, but I too am having a little trouble with this: >>Maybe it's the fact that if it's hydrothermal it shares "similar" properties?<< From what I can tell, that seems to be an assumption Eveleigh and ZEN supporters are making ... anyone know more? As for a cat chasing it's own tail, if this turns out to be only 5% flake, it'll be heading back to .16 or whatever right quick, I figure.

To: vitalremains who wrote (1261)	7/22/2013 2:49:02 PM
From: Threshold	2 Recommendations Recommended By copperknob Eva Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22852

"Thanks Terry I think you've probably found the most compelling evidence released so far. Hopefully somebody can clarify (or point out a post where this was already discussed) but after reading Torch River's July 11th NR (re: 89.5% cg grab sample) I'm even more confused as to how Zenyatta's 3-6% cg can even be considered Sri Lankan style? Maybe it's the fact that if it's hydrothermal it shares "similar" properties? But again until we have proof that it's hydrothermal we may as well be a cat chasing its own tail!" you get low grade gold deposits and high grade deposits, thin vein deposits and wide vein deposits, and also bulk deposits, but it's still gold. the same can be said for other minerals. so why does the same thought process not apply to hydrothermal graphite. do we let the small deposits in Sri Lanka and Borrowdale define all future occurrences of hydrothermal graphite?? if so that's a pretty small control group that would not be accepted in the scientific realm. do you think the differences in the host rock environment that received the volcanic event might explain the differences in physical manifestation of the graphite in ZEN's Albany breccia pipes? to date hydrothermal graphite has only been found in a few locations on the planet, and mined in even fewer, so, how can one say that something is not hydrothermal simply because it does not physically manifest in thin veins? ZEN's deposit is contained within a breccia pipe. why can't hydrothermal graphite exist in a breccia? it's not as if they didn't have it tested for months before press releasing that they had hydrothermal, since then they've had it analyzed in great detail at SGS Lakefield for purity and metallurgy, presented to hundreds of mining industry execs, academic scientists, geologists and analysts and so far only Mickey Fulp (underwater with his FDR) and some flake stock execs have come out to say "we don't think it's hydrothermal". maybe Terry missed the subsequent press releases on the purity and metallurgical results from SGS Lakefield. Oct 03, 2012, Feb 05, 2013, Apr 25, 2013