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Gold/Mining/Energy : Solv Ex (SOLVD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mqmsi who wrote (5842)	7/23/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: Larry Ricker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6735

"The schematic I have for Solv-Ex doesn't agree with what you have. Your information apparently comes from Asensio, mine comes from the company." Mine comes from SOLV's own patent, not from Asensio. "You doubt the company's veracity, I doubt Asensio's." I'd take statements from either with a grain of salt... "Is there not clay in the middle layers of the log washer? I have no confidence at all, in the results we are getting from Asensio." Yes, the middle layers is supposed to contain most of the clay (as I said in an earlier post). It's not supposed to contain much bitumen. The (less dense) bitumen is supposed to be decanted from a top layer. Asensio's point is that samples were taken not only from the middle layer (where bitumen would NOT be expected), but from ALL locations where one might hope to find bitumen, and in NO case was there a significant amount of acceptable quality. In my opinion, the only reason Asensio mentions sampling the middle layer is to show that the sampling procedure was thorough. One may choose to discount the observations of the chemist Asensio quotes, but the guy was hired by SOLV, had the appropriate credentials and experience to do the job, and was willing -- for whatever reason -- to go on the record. If he was "disgruntled", that's just additional evidence of inept project management. It doesn't mean that his observations were wrong -- nor does Asensio's crowing about them, irritating as that may be. This could be resolved easily if SOLV were to disclose the details of their tests. Then we wouldn't have to rely on third-party statements. Why do you suppose they don't? As Barb points out, this is all moot if -- as I expect -- no other company decides to use SOLV's extraction technology. Then we can move on to arguing about the "minerals" facility. That should be interesting. We'll miss you, Larry