coyote plant, page-15

"If you went ahead and "knocked the top off" a quartz outcrop without the permits, heritage studies, native title, flora, fauna, subterraneous fauna etc. etc., someone will end up in deep doo doo and future permits will be extremely hard. You can't do this on a mining permit."

Not much different to "rock chip sampling" and about as logical as starting a trial mine, and running 10,000 tonnes of ore through a ball mill.

"Also, if in 40 years you haven't seen much in the way of gold behind liners, you weren't looking. It is usually in the form of black sludge and is measured in % gold, not grams."

I never said I haven't seen any, but as posters were saying, "reline a miil, then clean it out after your finished, etc" my post was just to point out how little all this would affect the results.

A freshly relined mill will not, in the short time it takes to feed that much ore through, have hardly anything behind the liners. This only starts to happen when the liners are worn, or if the lifters become loose.
As for coarse gold, (decent sized nuggets), they definitely won't, and as bob said, they will stay in the mill 'till they're ground down.
IF they did do something like this, the balls could be dropped, and any big nuggets picked out by hand.

The "sludge" does go walkabout, but you only get about 1/2 an oz. out of a 20 litre bucket, which is b***** heavy as well.

Opening the dump valve on a warman pump ALWAYS revealed some good sized nuggets, and the riffle bars on a screen feed end literally produced "handfulls" of gold.

A trial run of any amount of dirt will not give you a true indication of how much gold there is either. Where on ABUs leases do you take the dirt from? Gold is UNEVENLY dispersed, and 10,000 tonnes from one area may yield 10 or 20 times as much gold as another area.

All this guessing of what may happen, how much gold there is etc. is just that, guessing, but makes for a good read, and obviously keeps the posters amused.
A lot of good hard effort being put in by these people, but we'll never know just how much gold there is until they actually start full scale mining.

By the way, who has that many shares that they can keep dumping them?