To: WLAVEL who wrote (10124 ) 4/11/1999 10:51:00 PM From: JACK R. SMITH JR. Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14226
WL, So the scum floats to the top--I doubt that not. I wish to take nothing from Stillwater, but from you, sir! The statement about the Stillwater process is the first statement that I have heard from you about the subject at hand. You mentioned a real process and not debunking opinion. That is true progress. First, you must understand that pgms are not like gold--most deposits are unique and most problematic. Gold is a pushover, so is silver and copper. Relatively speaking, of course. The process at Stillwater was derived due to some smart folks working on it for some time and at great cost. To compare GPGI with Stillwater is not a fair comparrison, and neither is the extreme doubt that I see here. Whether or not the properties can be brought to production is in doubt. The potential for GPGI if it can is much greater than Stillwater in my mind. There is only one conclusion that I can come to about GPGI here, and I have come to this conclusion many times before. Either it is a total scam or it has extreme potential. My frustration comes from the assumption that it belongs in the latter case and has been failed by management. If it falls into the former category, then I have been fooled by management, and shame on them. How can the future be resolved? Well, management could admit that they have fooled me and admit legal responsibility. On the other hand they could deny any responsibility and I would have to persue them, or they could prove the veracity of their statements to me by their actions. They could actually produce what they promised! I have been promised production more times than I can count. Now is the time for production, and even small at first, but continued and then increasing and then all these doubts can be resolved and then I shall feel much better and forgive all! The last resort may to be "drag a big magnet over the Oro Grande" and drop the results into dump trucks and sell the ferromagnetic product to a competent processor! What the final result will be I know not! Knowig nothing, Jack!!