RioI never claimed to know who you are. I frankly do not think that I have ever meet you. Chris says he has and I passed that on to the board. Not U of I and he just moved to Alaska, but he has been to a lot of meetings of EPA and the rest over the years. You figure it out, I could care less.
On the second paragraph there are many things to say.
I will start with Milagro. The ore at that location runs 100 opt Ag and 19% combined lead zinc. The deposit is 5 kilometers from railhead at Gonzales on a direct line to IMSA's smelter at SLP. The ore had been being shipped by truck in DSO form to Torreon and was readily acceptable to Penoles there.
As for Mining professionals who also thought that my idea was workable, try Bill Wonder, former VP exploration at Echo Bay. He and I tried to get Scott to sell us the hill on a JV basis after I left FCO and we planned to DSO the first 40,000 tons of ore. We prepared a prefeasiblity study on exactly that and it was pretty workable. There were 40,000 tons of ore in sight in the existing working. Beyond that required a lot of additional work, but we stood to make about $300 net a ton on 20,000 tons a year in such an operation.
On bismuth recovery in hydromet and the acceptablity of the product, you seem to think nobody would want it. OK, then you are calling Noranda a liar. Gine by me, but I think I will stick with them and Hanna on their assesments. Their credientials to make such a call I knnow, while you are an internet cypher.
As I said, how can I be 'pumping' when I don't own the freaking stock? Well, geeh, a whole 2600 shares, but heck fella, why would I care about that. I have chatted on this board on Facts. I am sorry if those facts bother you, but they are the facts as I know them. I have the experiance on the hill and the experiance in this industry to give the assesments that I have here. You are once again a cypher, so either you need to post your ID and give your credentials or why would others on this board believe you.
For all I know you have five PhDs to my Masters and have the solution to the unified field theory. But calling me "dumb" suggests that your thought processes are not quite on that par. Prove us all wrong, show us where you got those degrees and all those years of experiance to make your statements and you might just give us a reason to reassess the situation. Till then, drop the silly doublem negatives like "false misinformation" and try to discuss topics, if you have any worthy of discussion, with a little less passion and a lot more data.