Okay, so following up on Andrew's intriguing breadcrumb re Chromium at Riley's:
I found these public records for Chromium (and look what else!) in the original Exploration Licence (EL24/1985) ... :
(Under the current Mining Licence for the Riley Iron Ore project, tenement 5M/2012, which was listed as part of the Mount Lindsay District tenements on Page 37 of the January 29th Announcement.)
In order... Topmost is the Iron resource for the current mine licence:
Then "more details"... look what else is logged as commodities:
"More details" also leads us to:
And those "more details" lead us to...
All on public record.
According to Professor Google:
"
Osmium is the densest naturally occurring element, with an experimentally measured (using x-ray crystallography) density of 22.59 g/cm . Manufacturers use its alloys with platinum, iridium, and other platinum-group metals to make fountain pen nib tipping, electrical contacts, and in other applications that require extreme durability and hardness. The element's abundance in the Earth's crust
is among the rarest."
The only spot price I could find for it was $5500, which is about twice Palladium, but a few fortunes short of Rhodium.
Which raises some questions:
* Do they know yet if there's enough to make it commercially viable after the iron ore has been lifted out?
* Specifically, is a grade of 1.9% Chromite commercially viable in any form, at whatever depths it may be?
* And are these precious Osmium-Iridium-Platinum PGE's underneath the iron ore, or in the same rocks (which may make them profitable for a second follow-up style of processing)? Andrew mentioned the historical search had been with an auger, so presumably not too deep..?
So perhaps somebody who knows Andrew could speak to him in advance of his upcoming zoom session to ask if he can elaborate on his throwaway "Chromium" line from the last interview, please?
I've heard him mention the potential for Platinum and PGE's here before - can't recall when sorry because it was informally and so long ago - but I never realised that it might include Osmium-Iridium etc.
Either way, all this assumes I haven't gone cross-eyed while reading the map (chuckle).
Alas at my age, it's an increasing phenomenon, so as always, DYOR & GLTAH.
(20min delay)