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To: Breccia who wrote (7951)	3/13/2015 8:57:24 AM
From: ogi	Respond to of 8273

Breccia, I Don't claim to have full comprehension of water usage for FCV. I too spoke to Ralph and also David at the core shack. My impression was , they can use salt water primarily, for fresh water demands they will have, they can buy and use modular desalination units that are available as turnkey set ups. No idea of salt water effect on life of equipment. As for salt in the product, it seems some salt is beneficial. EG Potash has very high levels of chloride. Some comments on salt in fertilizer here: ipni.net!OpenDocument No idea of the subtleties of the matter but cannot imagine FCV would be advancing this if they were to produce a product that would be harmful as a fertilizer. Although sodium chloride is the main salt in seawater I assume the concentrations in the final product would be very low . Is it possible the salt content may be mitigated by other chemical interactions in the final product? Not sure. Vale et al are producing the same product 10 miles away so FCV is not pioneering the idea of producing phosphate in this region from this type of rock.

To: Breccia who wrote (7951)	3/13/2015 4:35:36 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 8273

fcv.v - several components of seawater are beneficial, Mg K Ca S etc, it's the Na that's the issue, one per cent by weight roughly ... a little is not a problem, depending on the crop, and many fertilisers have some sodium in them naturally, from source ... the less the better though, so yes cheap fresh water would be nice to have, desalination makes for a bit larger capex and ongoing energy cost ... not a show-stopper though imho, when the economics are so powerful otherwise, very low-cost mining milling and transport ... i saw fifty-pound bags of dolomite lime for sale yesterday at 12.95, and that wasn't the dolopril stuff, which was 15.95, lol ... ridiculous, it was one of those places that used be farm supply, now gone 'farm-and-garden', which translated means 'We doubled our prices, except for those we tripled, but oooh look at our pretty plastic packaging isn't it nice' [edit] - there was a little one-pound plastic jar of 'stump remover' on sale for 12.95 ... on sale - discounted some percentage - that's twenty-six thousand loonies the ton, before taxes ... stuff is in plain language called potassium nitrate, which i remember buying by the fifty lb bag for under five bucks, mind you that would be thirty years or so back ... but geez ... didn't look for rock phosphate, will try to next time gqc.v - wife had a little sub-dime bid fill this morning ske.v - put out a response piece just before close - 'Skeena, Keewatin sue Eilat over pooling agreement 2015-03-13 15:45 ET - News Release Mr. Walt Coles reports SKEENA CONFIRMS LAWSUIT FILED AGAINST EILAT EXPLORATION LTD. Skeena Resources Ltd. is confirming that Skeena and Keewatin Consultants (2002) Inc. have filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of British Columbia against Eilat Exploration Ltd. to enforce a pooling agreement amongst Skeena, Keewatin and Eilat. Eilat and Keewatin were the vendors of the Spectrum property to Skeena. The asset purchase agreement and the pooling agreement were signed by the three parties on April 14, 2014, during which time Skeena stock was halted from trading. The pooling agreement became effective on Oct. 27, 2014, when Eilat and Keewatin were issued 80 million shares in conjunction with the closing of the Spectrum property acquisition and in accordance with the purchase terms agreed to on April 14, 2014. Skeena is not commenting further at this time, and the matter is before the courts. Skeena believes that Eilat's allegations are unfounded and without merit '