Monday, December 15, 2008
Searchlight NV. Trip....
I haven't been home to post anything new and when I'm at work there is no internet so hopefully I can make this interesting. I have been working down in Searchlight Nevada helping a guy do some metal exploration. He does ore sampling and re-test old tailing piles and even does research on how to re-process these old tailing piles to see if he can squeeze out more metals from them. Apparently, this process has never been proven or nobody hasn't been able to get all the 100% of metals out of these old tailing piles yet and people have been working on this for years. Mostly this guy will test ore samples by Assaying them with chemicals and if the ore looks promising then he will do a Fire Assay to get the metal out to test it again then he will report what is in the ore and roughly what you can get out of this ore by the ton. Very interesting work especially if you never seen it done before. I really had a great time learning this, and hopefully I can be-able to do that one day. Here in Utah, you can't find an Assayer unless you go to SLC, or possibly some Jewelery shops may have some qualified person to do that for ya. I want to try and learn this, because I would love to Assay ore samples for people and tell them what they may have. I am headed back down tomorrow to help this guy out for another week so be patient with me and when I get back I will post more.
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