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Gold/Mining/Energy : Maxam Gold Corp. OBB:MXAM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Richard Mazzarella who wrote (5336)	8/18/1998 2:34:00 AM
From: Mellofellow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11603

Richard, In the last 6 months I had 100 assays performed. Each sample was cold leached with Auqua Regia and then run thru an AA unit. 100 fire assays were performed on portions of the same material. In every case the fire assay revealed value from 30 to 80% more than the Aqua Regia.. It is possible that if other chemicals were used the AA tests could have been improved...At the time I was not interested in improving values this just happened to be the way this assayer approached all prospects....I have material that leached at .45ozpt and fired at 1.88ozpt, with those kind of numbers I had no reason to go back and leached the material...However if I ever planned to mine this material I would go to place in Nev, drop off about 300 lbs of material and let them tell me which is the best recovery process I should use...Might be by gravity method over a table or by vat leach....Right now mining this material is not feasible, permits to leach would take a couple of years, also other wildlife factors... Vat or batch leach is very expensive contrary to what people are telling you...especially when using bromides..cost for production much higher than what Hewlett says... Mello