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Gold/Mining/Energy : Global Platinum & Gold (GPGI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tim Hall who wrote (5588)	4/2/1998 9:36:00 PM
From: Joe Champion	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14226

Tim, Gregg Iseman official shingle is in Henderson, Nevada. His facility is located in the greater Phoenix area. Arizona requires that assayers be registered with the State. To circumvent this, if an assayer has an office outside of the State of Arizona, they can operate in the State without registering. Another assayer in Phoenix that uses this ploy is Zig Bremmer (Bremmer Technology Corporation). They employ an answering service outside of Arizona and operate within the State without regulatory control. Both Gregg and Zig report high levels of Pt in all of their work (sometimes ten's to hundred's of ounces per ton). Pleasing information to the claim owner until he tries to extract. In regards to the Pt deposits in the United States at the turn of the century, I am only aware of one mine that sold Pt in the western part of the US recorded by the US Mint. This was the Boss Mine in Nevada pre WWI. They used a process of enhanced mercury amalgamation developed by Sir William Crookes FRS in ~1898. In this process they elevated mercury to a temperature just below boiling and tossed in sodium metal. The thought was that the sodium metal would activate the mercury so it would "wet" platinum. I have a copy of the US Mint records on microfiche for some of these Pt transactions. The mine was closed during the war and when people went to reopen it, no one could find the first trace of Pt. People are still tromping over those rocks today. FYI -- I did not find any information regarding any other mine in the western US that reported any PT, with the exclusion of trace quatities from placer deposits in California. Of course, no one attempted to replicate the recovery process of the producing time era. Point being, to cause the transmutation of mercury to gold and platinum, all one has to do is throw sodium metal into the matrix! This was demonstrated in Colorado Springs in 1995. Joe Champion transmutation.com

To: Tim Hall who wrote (5588)	4/2/1998 11:43:00 PM
From: Jafco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

Tim, somewhere in the back of my mind, I recall reading a history of the Oro Grande mine and that it was closed in 1906. The ore was shipped to the San Francisco mint and that the mint penalized the mine for the platinum metals in the ore. I will, when I have more time , see if I can find the article. I am getting older, and you know the mind is the first thing to go, or is it?? gg Joe

To: Tim Hall who wrote (5588)	4/3/1998 11:34:00 AM
From: Ed Fishbaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14226

Thall I quote from Peter Fischer's 1991 compendious study of the Oro Grande and Weaver Creek for Inco. As I understand it Inco did not follow through on this very favorable report because of its own internal organizational problems at the time. Oro Grande History "The Oro Grande was discovered in the 1870s and has been intermittently worked until the 1940s primarily as a gold mine. Around 1900 it was one of the richest gold mines in the Black Rock district of Arizona. A few essential points about the mine are listed here, additional information is contained in a collection of old newspaper clippings reports and letters in Global's possession. . In 1904 the mine is reported to have produced 8600 tons of ore averaging 0.27 opt Au. . Bullion shipped from the Oro Grande was penalized by the mint in California for its PT and Ag content. The owners had to sign a waiver for the PT content of the ore. . A 340 ft shaft and several hundred feet of drifts were completed prior to 1910. . Only a small, stoped portion of the Linear Breccia Zone was mined between surface and the 300 ft level." Later he states: " It is emphasized that in Global's compilation of their analytical work there exists a wealth (hundreds) of anomalous high grade PGE analyses which are extremely unlikely to be produced by "salting" and therefore should be taken seriously. Although the scatter of the PGE values is extreme and in some cases even the order of magnitude is in question, certain metal ratios are impossible to be manufactured and therefore are considered to reflect natural samples." In conclusion he reports that PT is the primary precious metal. "The Oro Grande property is a Pt-Au occurrence in a previously unrecognized and favourable setting. It has unqestionably highly anomalous PT values and very favourable Pt/Pd ratios in several rock types in a brecciated hydrothermally altered mafic complex which is presumed to be underlain by a younger pluton. The property deserves serious attention." Regards, Ed