BLAST vs ROCK BREAKER vs DRUM CUTTTERBlasting -
Miner has to dril lal lthe blast holes.
Evacuation of mine.
Blast rock.
Then retreive the rock.
= costly + downtime.
Rock Breaker
Just too slow.
Drum Cutter
Continuous boring
Faster than other formats
Safer than blasting
More ore delineated ( tonnage removed )
** Size of rock delineated with cutters similar to rock seeing jaw crushers
** Alleviates preasure on rock jaw crushers - small feed stock rock right from mine
** Chain reaction to feed milling - more tonnage milled.
** Current 750 tonne mill machine could most likely output 1.5x more milled ored.
** Lease machine
Delineating ore using - drum cutters - could exponentially increase the tonnage
processed per day. Small rocks right from mine - less time in rock crushers - less time milling = more tonnage processed.
LINK -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r55VlxS750g
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QUARTZ -
In the Zack's review on Bull River Mine, it speaks of quartz intrusion into sedimentry rocks.
Quartz -Veining - and copper minerals.
Yet.. in other reports - veinlettes are also present in the argilites with copper showings.
CAN QUARTZ GROW ?
Yes.. .they can.
But the right environment is needed inwhich ot grow the quartz.
Silica beach sands = Quartz. ( glass )
Here's a video showing how they grow synthetic quartz -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzHqhNoyx2o
Take notice how they incubate the quartz.
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BIGGLE ?
The quartz is a - Sea Quartz.
Which makes me second guess what kind of recipe they're using.
Meaning - sea and ocean have salts.
Is this somesort of hybrid salt silica crystal ?
Perhaps a relation to a calcite ?
Or.. are they using silica solution and then placing the - sea quarts plate in the ionic solution of silica and relying on heat and electrical current to transpose the silicate solution on the sea quartz plate - yeah.. .i'd make that bet and say - yes.
Simple silica solution electro plating.
Making it look all dramatic + scientific - lol -
Why brinf this up ?
To prove that quartz or clacites or any type of salt cna form crystals.
Rethinking the Bull depoist to perhaps warm to the idea of, stratibound deposit.
After all - bul lrivder is at the base of the mountain - in a basin - wereas the ocean might have coursed through at one time.
Bull river deposit could be an old oceanic sediment plate - all the alyering of strata would make total sense - not to mention all the greywacke clays....
Argilites are also shales with carbons...
It would be interesting to see a geologist do a double take on Bull rivers - supposed quartz Check to see if they're moreso a - rhyolite - limestone that experienced heat - turned to
marlbe - if so, then i'd lean towards geotherma lintrusion. One or two cores resemble marble.
https://braveheartresources.com/site/assets/files/1/cu_core_1920x882.1440x560.jpg
Here one can see the shales - looks like a clay base shale -
Uprighted -
I would like ot know what fepth they're at.
https://braveheartresources.com/site/assets/files/1/ug_drill_core_1920x882.1440x560.jpg
And lastly,
If any copper junior has production cost of - $2/lb copper.
With a $3/,50 LOM cost of copper price expectancy over life of mine
Hpw is it they can operate @ $2/b cost with only a concentrate ?
Meaning -
For each pound of copper tallied it cost the junior $2 dollars.
suppose a concentrate of 25% with 550 lbs of copper
550 lbs ( 25% con )
x $2
= $1100 ( cost to make )
What's the value of the copper in the 1 tonne 25% concentrqte - spot value if fully refined ?
550 lbs
x $3.50
= $1,925
No junior with a 25% con will fetch full spot price for the concentrate.
It would have 1,650 lbs of waste + 550 lbs of copper
Lots of separation and refining to do on the ores
Therefore the copper con @ 25% could never fetch ful lprice of spot.
And the cost to produce a 25% con @ $2/lb = $1100.
The price a wholesaler would pay would be no more than $1100.
Now - i've sene severla juniors PEA's and PFS studies - they all state cost per each copper lb
and they mention spot prices - but never do they mention what they fetch for the copper 25% concentrate. The investor or reader is left to assume they're fetching ful lprice per each copper lb as if it were fully refined but it's not -
I'm thinking - the $2 per each copper con pound is inflated and the profits baked into the
cost to produce 1 lb of copper con - and as so - it steals from the valuation of stock - now if
the cost to produce a con per pound was lowered - one would see a profit - thus triggering a stock price increase - is this why the concentrate contracts are not ever mentioned ? lol
Kind of like - Copper Mountaqin mine video -
They mention they produce a copper con.
But... the slight is, they also mention what spot prices are.
Spot is tied to pure refined copper, mot cons.
The video goes on to elude - that the miner's copper value profits are
worth copper spot prices.
Copper Mountain Mining Video - 6 min 15 sec - mark
25% con with $4 dollar spot copper = $2700 value of copper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrISAmMtZM
Did oyu catch it ?
They applied the - spot pricing - for a concentrate grade.
25% grade = another stil lhas ot refine it and purify it - therefore the con can't be worth spot.
So why is it they al lslip the spot in videos or pfs or fs studies to make the investor think they're fetching spot prices / lol
MORE LIKE
Offer minimum prices for 25% copper con - don't mention the copper con prices - fetched.
State the spot prices and worth of coppe conr based on spot .
And hope the investor uses the cost to produce 1 lb of copper and deduct it from the spot.
Which is not the scenerio.
Juniors concentrate = mules.
investors squeezed out.if coper sold as a cheap concentrate
one has to be an accountant to - spot it.
Just an opinion.
Which is why i'm offering several options for Braveheart in which to create higher profits.
Versus - simple concentrate like al ltheir peers who play with spot prices while running copper cons that don't fetch spot prices..
Now imagine if a junior decided to introduce electrowinning ?
A small refinery operation - would see some nice profits.
I wonder if a wash plant sluice could concentrate better than the - flotartion cells or hydrocyclones ?
And simply rely on - large vat cyclenders - fully contained to deal with the acids - whereas dump the best reduced concentrate into a higher PH acid to quicken the ore solvency - then yank the copper out of hte sulphate solution using - electrowinning or plating onto graphite coated copper sheets.
ELECTROLYRIC COPPER REFINING PLANT
.https://metalrecyclingmachines.com/metal-recycling/metal-recovery-systems/copper-electrolytic-refining-plant.html
I'd stremline the process and eliminate the wheel - simply allow the plates to coat with copper and scale off - create a bulk loose pure copper.
Cheers....
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