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To: Chuck Bleakney who wrote (453)	1/16/1998 3:40:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 672

Chuck, Yes Boron would interfere, but it is chemically removable very easily. The major labs do have irradiation facilities on site, and will arrange to have certain samples shipped to you after assay, if you pay the freight and can show a safe place to keep them. Some samples cannot be dealt with immediately, and are aged for a time. Some cannot ever leave, say cobalt containing ores, and there they sit, and your assay fee embodies this permanent storage. Most operations I have seen are so highyl automated that little is left to operator error, as they need volume to get the numbers down. When you send your first samples they are assessed to see what standard method will deal with them and any interfering elements present. If they fit a standard profile, they go through it in an automated way. If they do not fit, they consulkt with you and arrange for some paid work(paid by you) to work out the method to assay that stiff correctly. Of course you need volume to justify this type of money and work. But if you expect to send them 10,000 samples a year, a $50,000 expense is only $5 per sample, and might be cheaper once done that any other way. I am very suspicious of this cluster talk, as it sounds like a fool the gullible investor story. Bill

To: Chuck Bleakney who wrote (453)	1/16/1998 8:18:00 PM
From: Michael J. Wendell	Respond to of 672

Chuck, Your post is excellent. I get my information from research papers as to cluster molecules and their properties. My understanding is probably no greater than yours. A certain amount theory becomes accepted for today because it fits and supports other research. I have some excellent texts and papers on the subject, but I am no more than the interpreter of what I read. A hundred years from now and who knows what science will be still in acceptance. I have a paper from a university in Britian. The gold tested does not assay. But it is found by scanning electron microscope. Remove the neutron shields, and the samples are conventional by neutron activation. When I am asked, does neutron activation always work for gold analysis. My comments are, depends on the minerological quality of the sample. mike