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To: Webster Groves who wrote (6805)7/22/1998 2:36:00 AM
From: Anthony Zack  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 14226
 
Webster,

David Hudson was a farmer who has spent almost 20 years and 5+ million dollars trying to understand what exactly it is about his farmland that makes it difficult to grow crops. There is absolutely no connection to GPGI that I know of. There are similarities:

1. He is building a pilot plant outside of Phoenix to process PGMs from desert ore.

2. He has spent almost 2 decades researching the ore and methods to process it.

3. He has proprietary methods for processing the ore.

I brought this info to this thread mainly to point out that this man and his organization are also capable of producing PGMs from an AZ ore body. His patents clearly describe his methods and the exotic nature of these elements in their naturally found state in this area of the U.S. It was my hope that the info contained in the patents would find its way to Russell Twiford. From reading the patents, I got the impression that isolating these elements and retaining their exotic state of matter was difficult while isolating these elements and converting them to the (metallic) shared electron diatomic state of matter was much easier. Supposedly, the exotic state of matter was retained when these elements became encased within the chemical box structure of the sulfides which were readily available during that volcanic era 65-66 million years ago in this area of the U.S.

BTW, I never said the element in the pan weighed less, I said the pan weighed less. Superconductors levitate on magnetic fields. The pan supposedly weighed less from the levitating effect of the element acting on the pan during the heating process while the heating element was generating a magnetic field. Ripley's Believe it or not.

Finally, I do not know what I believe and what I don't at this point regarding David Hudson. But if I spent almost 2 decades trying to develop a process to mine the Hassey ore pile, and I heard of a guy that wrote 2 patents describing a device to process similar desert ore, I think I would owe it to my company to at least read the patents and possibly follow up beyond that.

Trying To Get To The Bottom Of The Desert Ore Mystery Tony