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Gold/Mining/Energy : Altair Nanotechnologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John U. who wrote (161)	12/27/1997 10:08:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 603

John, U have answered my question. Why does it say c.aig on the start post? AIL seems to be trading around $18 Canadian. As I see it a long termer as they test and implement the new jig. Safe harbour as gold drops. Entry cost high and potential for a double over the next year or so, but has the safety of major partners. Lucky fellows who got in at $1-2. I am not sure how their jig works, but assorted batch concentrators have been around for some time now and starting to made into continuous operation models. Each one seems to evolve from the nature of each deposit through a process of optimization of parameters. Currently the best way to sort these heavy sands is to classify them first by free fall speed and size to get a narrow range, and the adjust the centrifuge speed and fluid upflow against the fake G force (from the spinning) to separate that particular sort of sand into a heavy/light phase. I speculate in a continuous operation the crushed material would be sorted into several flows of differing size/shape and each one sent through a separator made for its size range.(the oversize being sent back through the crusher) I used to do this with a Knelson on a batch process. Taking the crushed rock and screening it to tight size ranges and then running the Knelson on each size range. I was able to get close to 90% separation of Davidson ore(.17 ounces per ton) with no chemical action.The Knelson on just one crush got only 60-70% of the gold. I was trying to make a small portable unit to deal with tiny open pit operations by being made for the many potential outcrops you can find with a few thousand tons. The whole thing diesel driven on a trailer, needing only water and oil. Only suited for non acid tails though. The idea is still valid, but low gold has put a hold on it. This was to produce a concentrate to be shipped elsewhere for surther processing. Is there a post where there are some details on how the AIL process works?, will it be shown at a trade show? Bill