RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: cost o ok lets all grab a calculator and enter the numbers
1 cubic yard has 27 cubic feet..so 50 yard bucket has 27 *50=1350 ft3
5% of this bucket of rock is graphite... so 1350 *,05=67.5 cubic feet of graphite..
now here is where the specific gravity cuts in
1 ft3 of graphite weighs 127.84 lbs (as per previous posts and my errors)
67.5 ft3 x 127.84=8629.2 lbs of graphite in that bucket.
we will assume that it is all 99.99 pure but really that is not the case .We do not yet know how much impurities or whatever we have to process to get to 99.99.
anyway 8629.2 divide by 2204 (1000 kilograms or 1 metric tonne) x 15,000.00 Canadian =58,786.67
i still am having thoughts that graphite weighs double what water weighs but that is what google says.
so you know 1 cubic foot of concrete is close to 140 lbs depending on how wet the sand is.
graphite is suppossed to be light.. my graphite fishing rod is like a feather.. something fishy here.
but all in all the numbers are pretty good. even take 50% of the value and multipy by 93 buckets per day x 365
good enough for me