Thanks Cropper, This I hope will put enough data into the public domain about how they are "testing" 5Mt/h units. They have failed to date to use their ASX announcements to provide such detail, which as discussed prior has been a concern.
I continue to believe they would not break the law intentionally.
That means they're either unintentionally doing so, which wouldn't be a good start to getting the green light from authorities, and it would present some serious questions about the professionalism of the associated personnel, which to date have been presented as demi-gods by the cheerleading squad. Let's hope that status is retained......
Or, they are using such small quantities of materials they remain within the regulations; ie one wheelbarrow of ore to make 15lbs of source material per run, which is less than 1 minute of production in a 5Mt/h unit....
Or, the ore grades used now in testing are so low that even after Ablation they still don't qualify as source material and they've been running the heck out of the 5Mt/h unit. If this were the case, then I don't know why they can't divulge this information. I'm not an engineer, but I do know that at times you cannot simply take data obtained in a certain way at a certain scale and extrapolate it out to represent what might happen under some other environmental circumstance.
I fear this is what is implied when the talk about "mimicking" results in their announcements to date. Having this revelation at the public hearings would be potentially very problematic for BLR.
Are there any mining engineers out there with additional perspectives on scaling, running at lab scale vs production etc?
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