RE:CCE's fluorspar is worth USD 10 Billion!! How does CEO Chris Grove come up with this 20m tons of Flourspar concentrate?
Chris Grove's answer:
Hello Xxx:
I am well, thank you.
We were all struggling with the flu for a good part of the last couple of months, but we generally are fine now.
Thank you for passing along this question from this investor.
In terms of our calculation of ~20 M tonnes of fluorspar, when we have assayed the +15,000 meters of core that made up the resource calculation we have at this time, we have assayed for both the REE’s and fluorine. Then there is a standard calculation for equivalency of fluorspar and this is the percentage average that we have published in our current resource.
Then I have averaged our fluorspar percentage to be ~7% of the ~250 M tonnes, and this is how I came to ~20 M tonnes. Yes, you might argue that I am being a little generous in that 7% of 250 M tonnes is actually 17.5 M tonnes and so I have rounded up perhaps a little generously.
One of the reasons that I have allowed myself to be a little generous is that in the results attached we have encountered very good intersections of +11% fluorspar, and that is very exciting.
I hope that I have answered this question to this investor satisfaction. What I am trying to point out is that there is no guesswork here – this is highly detailed analysis of all drill core and that is also why it is so expensive.
For example, we just spent over $100,000.00 CAD to assay the last 2,000 meters that we drilled on the Ashram, and of course those are the most recent results we released late last year (attached).
As I said, this is not guesswork and the Canadian system is the most demanding on planet earth, and of course we have also now drilled an additional 9,700 meters that will be added to the new resource where we expect to see a slightly larger deposit, a slightly higher grade and also slightly less waste rock than was modelled in the original resource.
Best regards,
Chris Grove
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