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Gold/Mining/Energy : Desert Dirts, Gold & Platinum, the emperors new clothes -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raye Derickson who wrote (1472)	6/15/1998 12:26:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1913

Most of those experts you cited were the top of the previous generations old boy network. The kind that in peacetime became the generals that were blind to mechanised war. Blind to the transistor and so on. To dismiss the desert dirts needs no real expertise. Just analyze some dirt. Routine machine technology can tell you all the elements present to fractions of a % precision. No expertise needed. Like "is it dark out?" needs no real experts, a light meter will tell you, or you could just make sure you do not ask a blind man. It has become fashionable to be anti tech by citing those well known classical blunders. They have long been proven wrong and attract few adherents these days. Their only use seems to be to cite them to suckers as part of a DD runup. Anyone want to make a sample of "dirt" that will fool a lab? Just make up a sample with known amounts of precious metals, add any masking agent you like and I will give you the names of some labs and you can try to fool them at your expense. Good luck. Bill