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Slam Exploration Ltd V.SXL

Alternate Symbol(s):  SLMXF

SLAM Exploration Ltd. is a Canadian junior resource company holding a portfolio of gold and base metal projects. The Company is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of exploration and evaluation properties in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, Canada. The Company's projects include Mine Road Project, Menneval Gold Project, Ear Falls Lithium Project, Jake Lee Gold Project, Highway Gold Project, Keezhik Gold, Dam Lake Project, and others. The Mine Road Project is a significant addition to its portfolio of wholly owned BMC projects that include Goodwin, O'Hearn-Strachens, California Lake, Lower 44, LBM, North Rim, Portage, Satellite, Nine Mile, and Red Pine. The Highway project has demonstrated polymetallic potential with 10 known mineral occurrences that include zinc, silver, copper, cobalt, molybdenum and tin as well as gold. The Company holds NSR royalties on the Wedge copper zinc project, Ramsay, Reserve Creek, and Opikeigen gold projects.


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Post by Solveron Dec 31, 2010 11:52am
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Gold measurement in grams and ounces

Gold measurement in grams and ounces

Below is the technical explanation for precious metals ozs.

Also the Northern Miner is probably the best information resource for mining in the entire country. If they have taken notice...... that is a huge plus as it will give exposure to SXL to literally millions of large cap buyers, investors, miners, laboratories, and other mining ventures who may be interested in a JV. Investment bankers are especially keen on NM info. This will take a week (or 2) or so and probably will coincide with the release of RC's drilling results. SXL has at this point ....as sure a thing as is possible....in the exploration industry!

Grams per ounce (troy) explanation:
A gold bar weighing one troy ounce
A Good Delivery silver bar weighing 1000 troy ounces

The troy ounce (ozt) is a unit of imperial measure. In the present day it is most commonly used to gauge the weight and therefore the price of precious metals. One troy ounce is equivalent to 31.1034768 grams. There are 32.1507466 troy oz in 1 kg.

The troy ounce is part of the troy weights system derived from the Roman monetary system. The Romans used bronze bars of varying weights as currency. An aes grave weighed equal to 1 pound. One twelfth of an aes grave was called an uncia, or in English an "ounce". Later standardization would change the ounce to 1/16 of a pound (the avoirdupois ounce), but the troy ounce, which is 1/12 of a troy pound (note that a troy pound is lighter than an avoirdupois pound), has been retained for the measure of precious metals. At 480 grains, the troy ounce is heavier than the avoirdupois ounce, which weighs 437.5 grains. A grain is 64.7989 milligrams (mg); hence one troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams (g) (exact by definition), about 10 percent more than the avoirdupois ounce, which is 28.349523125 g (exact).[1][2]

To maintain purity standards and common measures across time, the troy ounce was retained over the avoirdupois ounce in the weighing and pricing of gold, platinum, silver and gunpowder. Likewise, the grain, identical in both the troy and avoirdupois systems, is still used to measure arrow and arrowhead weights in archery along with projectile (bullet) and propellant (powder) weights in ballistics. The troy ounce and grain were also common to the apothecaries' system long used in medicine, but have been largely replaced by milligrams.[3]

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