RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:CSK....So checked out Mr. doom who joined SH on July 13, 2016 specifically to call TC investors "uninformed" regarding the infamous tunnel,which has yet to be constructed LOL. That's 6 LONG years!!!
I'm beginning to think that this person is a disgruntled mine worker due to 8 pages (approx 160 posts) and over 90 % are negative hypothetical mumblings about TUD. Another interesting quote on September 27, 2019 is "No way Seabridge has to cut a deal with Tudor to build KSM". Three (3) years later there is still no tunnel or road. How steep is the slope of this road going to be? 45, 55, 65 degrees? And they are still behind the Mountain with lesser grades. I won't waste my time replying to someone who is incapable of accepting the TRUTH even when it comes from arguably the most successful Geologist of all time.
GLTA DYODD.
rockport1 wrote: This is quoted directly from the Technical report:
1.7 MINERAL PROCESSING AND METALLURGICAL TESTING
Preliminary metallurgical testwork shows excellent gold recoveries to a gravity + flotation concentrate. From four composite tests at BV Minerals Metallurgical Division, gold recoveries averaged 96.2% in pyrite concentrates, with overall gold recoveries after concentrate extraction anticipated to be on the order of 88%. Mineralogical studies demonstrated that no deleterious elements such as As, Sb or Hg were detected within the Goldstorm and Copper Belle Zones.
DYOD
cskhurasu wrote: Thanks for your attempt to address my issues.
Let's deal with the first one first. Yes the met tests recovered a very high percentage of gold in a concentrate but because the ore is refractory, the concentrate is still 40% of the mined material so the grade of the concentrate is only 2 grams of gold per tonne. There is no way this is economic to move much less refine. If I recall, SEA is getting a concentrate around six times that in gold and nearly 25% copper...I would need to look that up to be sure...so the KSM concentrate is valuable enough to ship anywhere and pay for refining with a healthy profit afterwards.
To make Treaty Creek concentrate economic you would need to bring the volume of the concentrate from 40% of the mined material down to...say...4% so as to bring the concentrate grade up 10 fold. It's simple math driving economics. Can TUD generate a high grade concentrate from low grade refractory ore economically? That's the challenge which you appear not yo fully appreciate.