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To: Richard Mazzarella who wrote (6449)	6/28/1998 6:30:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 14226

Richard, most of the other nasties (like lead, barium, Zinc etc.) should be captured in the slag. The slag is essentially a glass which naturally stabilizes (if well compounded) the nasties within to an "unleachable state". The few PPM that do end up in the solution can be easily "polished" off with heavy metals dedicated ion exchange resins. As for IPMX, look at the 10 K again, there is some $88 MM in fab depreciated to barely $10 MM, the current value (replacement cost) of this fab is probably $100 MM and if my calculations are more or less correct, it could probably produce around $150 MM year of goods if fully utilized. Zeev