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To: S Marrella who wrote (7179)	12/12/1997 5:50:00 PM
From: carl	Respond to of 20681

Have a couple of questions for the thread. Would appreciate any insights. I'm not much of a miner :>) In post 7040, Steve, as part of his estimation exercise, stated "Further lets go with just the 10,000 tpd plant that was mentioned previously". I thought I'd caught most of the posts, but don't recall a discussion about a plant of this size. Is a plant of this size common in the industry? Would this size plant be the next logical step after assessing/improving upon the workings of the 5 tpd plant planned for next year? Also, can someone speak to the difference between assaying and recovering gold, platinum, etc.It seems to me that if you can "shake and bake" and then fire assay raw material to the point that you can weigh some metal and state that the metal equates to 3 ozs/ton, you have essentially recovered it, as I understand the term. I understand that doing this in a scaled-up fashion (5 tpd or higher) may present other problems, but I get the feeling that there is still some questioning re: the Johnson Methodolgy's ability to "recover". Is this semantics or is there something here I am missing? TIA. Carl