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To: Roebear who wrote (2750)	1/27/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Martin Wormser	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4571

A friend of mine said BCMD was mentioned in Smart Money. It was in the article where there were evaluating on-line brokerages. Some guy said he uses the on-line brokerages to buy penny stocks and BCMD is what he bought. No big deal but it was mentioned. Anybody get Smart money? Page number? And what was exactly said. martin

To: Roebear who wrote (2750)	2/3/1998 12:56:00 PM
From: Jeffery E. Forrest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4571

In my younger years (my Jack London years. Lotsa different jobs.<G>) I mined Zinc for a while. It is also hardrock mining and very similar to mining for gold. I was on the blast team and I can assure you that it is a SLOOOW process. We would spend all morning filling up 10 foot deep holes with celomite, then we would go back and insert a blasting cap in each filled hole. (Each hole was about as big around as an empty toilet paper tube and ten feet deep. The holes were in a two or three ft. grid as I recall. i.e.-each hole had another hole two ft above, below and on each side. Lotta holes) We then went back and CAREFULLY connected all the blasting cap wires (2 to a cap)together completed a circuit. Then we would finally run a wire back to the plunger and BOOOOOMMM!! I can't tell you how much fun that part of it was. No matter how many times I did it, it still gave me a rush. At any rate we would only get two blasts a day. Morning and afternoon. Each blast would take out an approx. 20 x 20 x 10 ft section of wall.(might have been smaller-it HAS been 20 years ago<G>) The scaling crew would then go in and remove all the dangerous chunks that might easily fall on someone and pieces that hadn't quite gotten blown 100% free. This was done on a cherry picker by hand using scaling bars which are just a long crowbar. Hard, dirty SLOW work. Most times we would have to return for a few boulders that were too big to do anything with other than drill a hole and blow it into smaller pieces. THEN a crew would come in a scoop up the ore. I haven't even included the drilling part of the process (for the blasts) which also took quite some time. SOOOO, we're talking almost a week to remove and mill two walls of the size I described above.