BET YOUR ASSAY - Mining Terms Explained

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BET YOUR ASSAY - Mining Terms Explained

An SI Board Since March 1997

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263	Never fear it is staked along with several other showings in the area. The muc	Walt	-	11/13/1997
262	Wow! Did you stake the property? Mesh size doesn't seem to make a differen	Jim Steel	-	11/12/1997
261	GENERAL QUESTION: If a cash cost of an open pit mine is , say, $150/oz where t	I_C_Deadpeople	-	11/12/1997
260	Sounds like an interesting book, Ill see if I can order it to add to my collect	Walt	-	11/11/1997
259	I have a new book - "The Gold Explorer's Handbook" which is not b	Junaidi	-	11/11/1997
258	thanks very much Junaidi, Its never to late for an old prospector to learn new	Walt	-	11/11/1997
257	Yes Walt high plus means a lot of coarse free gold particles which is problemat	Junaidi	-	11/11/1997
256	Thanks very much Junaidi I do have the weight % and it is about 90 to 10 for bo	Walt	-	11/10/1997
255	Walt, It is important to have the weights of the two size fractions. Then you c	Junaidi	-	11/10/1997
254	From your bio sounds like you know your stuff. As a prospector I spend alot of	Walt	-	11/10/1997
253	Not usually. You normally assay for everything under the sun and then get lost	Jim Steel	-	11/10/1997
252	"The Belgian flux is a well conceived flux for high temperature firing.&qu	strenlich	-	11/7/1997
251	I think you may be confusing assays, metalurgical reports and mill tests and/or	Walt	-	11/6/1997
250	Are assay reports a matter of publically accessible documentation for publicall	strenlich	-	11/6/1997
249	Bromine is used in some pretreatment on certain gold ores in certain electrolyt	E. Charters	-	11/5/1997
248	An assay of precious metals is the quantitative recovery of any amount to trac	E. Charters	-	11/5/1997
247	Is an assay a "recovery". I assume it is. Is a chemical pre-treat and	strenlich	-	11/4/1997
246	yes..that is the idea..pit run column leach tests. first test you do on any op	E. Charters	-	11/4/1997
245	Thanks Marcos.I'll try and knock him up. ..cheers..strenlich	strenlich	-	11/4/1997
244	Sodium bromide = NaBr, bromine being a halogen, i.e. in the elemental family o	marcos	-	11/4/1997
243	Has anyone evere heard of using Sodium-Bromide in a pre-treatment for assaying	strenlich	-	11/4/1997
242	Have you ever heard of doing cyanide tests in a column? Would this be to replic	strenlich	-	11/4/1997
241	What is Belgian Flux?..(hic..).	strenlich	-	11/4/1997
240	An interesting concept but once a stock has been busanged in my experience it s	Walt	-	10/8/1997
239	I find my prices have oxidized lately in resource stocks does that mean that th	E. Charters	-	10/8/1997

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