RE:Volume of clay neededkspiker.... you are calculating about 1.5 tons per cubic yard.. so lets use your numbers..
We woild have to feed this hungry extraction line. at about 10 tons a minute to give you all some understanding of this undertaking ahead of us.
Knowing other metal producers in Malartic Quebec ( gold) are processing 60.000 tons per day thru their extracttion mill .. .. and in order to do these numbers , they have to move over 100,000 tons per day of overburden.
Malartic drills and blast over 150,000 tons a day and 7 days a week
I think Detour Lake and New Gold are also in the same ball park forfigures. of this type and size.
Yes Cypress will be a fairly sizable proposed WORLD CLASS OPERATION.