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To: JACK R. SMITH JR. who wrote (95)	1/15/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: GlobalMarine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 142

OFF TOPIC: Jack, you've piqued my curiosity...what is 2% testosterone proprionate ointment used for? Rand

To: JACK R. SMITH JR. who wrote (95)	1/16/1998 8:26:00 PM
From: Michael J. Wendell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 142

Thank you Jack, I have often thought that miners and assayers had parallels with the druggist. I had an old metallurgist give me a piece of advice once that riled thouse younger chemists. By the way, he came frome three generations of metallurgists dating back to the most difficult to process Comestock Lode in Nevada. When asked why he did a test a certain way, he responded that he didn't know. He said that his father did it that way, my father's father did it that way and I do it that way. It has always been done that way because that is the way it works and no other way works as well. I stayed out of that one and just listened. mike

To: JACK R. SMITH JR. who wrote (95)	1/17/1998 8:43:00 PM
From: Michael J. Wendell	Respond to of 142

Hi Jack, You know looking back is always memorable. Years ago I was a lab supervisor of sorts. We did work for neuclear facilities and other customers. One of out specialties was Pulse Height Alpha Spectrometry. It was more of a surficial analysis that worked much better for gold than neutron activation. We used a Californium source for radiation energy. The source was the property of the US Government; as I understand that particular isotope of Californium was worth about a million an ounce or so. Any way we had that capability. Some guys brought rocks by that showed high levels of gold. These guys came from Westinghouse's Geophysical labs located in Boulder, Colorado. Westinghouse did a lot of of military related geological/instrumental research work. Well, here was the argument. The rocks contain high amounts of gold sayeth the physisist and nuclear chemists; no they don't sayeth the assayers. However, with a whole lot of work that was of no interest to anyone paying the bills, the gold was finally extracted refined and weighed. I think that Ledoux does that kind of spectrometry since they do nuclear fuels analysis. But I will bet they don't use the method to assay rocks. mike