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Gold/Mining/Energy : BET YOUR ASSAY - Mining Terms Explained -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chuca Marsh who wrote (404)	4/20/1998 6:52:00 PM
From: Walt	Respond to of 463

Chuca, You could take a piece of rock or a hand full of dirt from anywhere on this plant and get a multi element spec done on it and the results will come up with all sorts of minerals and elements in it. Try it some time and you will see what I mean. It doesnt cost all that much to get a sample run for 32 or 64 elements and you could get a whole rock analysis thrown in. The question is "Can you mine it and recover those minerals economically?" that is another story. If someone does come up with a radical new method for recovering the stuff then you could open a mine just about anywhere but the price of most of the stuff would plummet. The old law of supply and demand. Something to think about. Regards Walt Humphries