Hygrade Ore
Can not wait for more results re silver veins.
When i worked with my Dad at the silver m ill in Cobalt forget the name was back in the 60 ies. I was operating the shaking table and watching the long band of silver metal coing into the large wheel barrow at the corner of the table. Hadf to empty the big wheelbarrow two to three times a shift per table. Wheeled it into the drying room and dumped it on to a big 10 by 10 hot metaL plate. Of course had to sweep and shovel the silver off each time.
Remember helping lift large chunks of silver off the belt prior to the crusher and putting them into 45 gallon drums. They would beshipped directly for smelting. sometimes we missed achunk and it would then enter the crusher. Sometimes the crusher would justr,bang away on it and then we would pick it olff the belt afterwards. These chunks often weight 20 to 40 lbs.
The bigger ones would jam the crusher cauing a shut down and lentghy burning /melting out of the chunk of silver with a large gas blowtorch, a real pain.
I did not empty them jigs because to dangerous, but there was a lot of pure silver in them . collected after the ball mill.
The lower grade silver was reocvered by flotation and other circuits. I did not operate those.
Sometimes in the underground operations the rich silver viensi after blasting were still intact and had to be cut physically in in order to be able to be sent to surface.
A good chunk of the silver was sent direclty for smelting as it was essentially pure metal
I hope the new drilling confirms this as it will make the mine very rich.