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ekimon Jun 27, 2017 3:10pm
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RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:R.F. talks about mining diamonds with no breakage.
RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:R.F. talks about mining diamonds with no breakage.The way it sounds like..Diamond is a perfect example because of the technology because of the mostly guaranteed different between the SG of Diamond and the kimberlite material.
for Chidliak, the SG of kimberlite ranges between 2.5 and 2.7 and the SG of diamonds sit at 3.5.
He also references diamond at the top of the hardness scale...so not sure if that plays apart in it.
Sounds like it is more like Caustic versus DMS...but Caustic is very, very expensive and impractical in any production setting. Maybe this technology would do the same thing...but at a much cheaper rate.
The technology would be costed per tonne of material.
At $500 to $1000 revenue per tonne...you probably could extract enough extra unbroken diamond value to more then make up for the added cost.
It is a vision...not reality at this point.
LONG...PGD
EKIM