since i had to notify of a ban, i respond to your post
first, by the way, i feel somewhat obligated to try to save the thread, even as i wish to take no role in the thread's continuation, i therefore am willing and am alacritous to experiment, tweak and tune
at some juncture the bans may get so pervasive that it would seem tyranny has taken over, even as that is not my intention, and you, i trust, know that to be true
re <<gold>>
given the continuing inexorable trajectory of inevitable global equalisation of cost and revenue, gold is probably a good idea albeit not appreciated at the moment
in the mean time i receive communications noting that it is not only about humanely extracting gold goodness from the gold pond, but silver merit from the silver lake, and also capturing lead and zinc from the bottom dredge
we do not use a lot of oil or even electricity, because most of the hard processing, them be digging, crushing, sorting, milling, fine milling were all done over the eons, with whatever then primary metals removed - the power were used and paid for a long time before we the astute and agile showed up
and given tasmania hydro be plentiful, even current power is, no pun, dirt cheap - amongst cheapest on planet
no exploration, mining, and certainly no fuss, just vacuum up the stuff into the processing plant, and successively float off the goodness that be lead, zinc, silver and gold
the thing that made the project earlier troublesome was that metallurgy is only part laboratory science, and part factory art, and needs to be tweaked and tuned to before going commercial scale. the stuff in the pond is high in arsenic, always a bother
the processing plant was originally set up to extract non-precious metals, and therefore all the gold and silver, as well as the leftover lead / zinc residues ended up in the pond
given the tailing nature, the record is extremely clear on what was put into the pond, per governmental regulations you may be familiar with
all we are doing is to revisit the legacy site, now that the economics have changed, and pick up the pickings, which should be, assuming the records are correct, 800k troy oz of gold and 32M troy oz of silver, and whole lot of lead and zinc, all of which should be good for belt & road, central bank printing, and rising middle class savings
successive process results in, and i quote, "good clean high value concentrate" which would be further processed into the more familiar bars and more bars
a lot of value extraction but not so much by troublesome digging and thankless exploration, or is it the other way around, but
by sitting in front of the computer and ... well, just watching things happen
beats soya beans way, and rides the same macro trend, and certainly involves no climbing of poles, and so relatively much more immune from the predations of globalisation of cost and equalisation of revenue
basically a few guys and a few contractor outfits do whatever they do, sitting at desks mostly
watch this stuff vacuumed into the plant
then, abracadabra alakezam, good clean high value concentrate to be sent to the smeltering place, and give up the purified goodnesses via humane process
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