We should all treat each other better in a perfect world, but when people are passionate about a subject it is absurd to expect anything other than heated debate if you jump in with a statement with no backing information. One thing is for sure we won't determine the value or future of this company in a debate today or tomorrow on HC. Good luck trying to bring this down.
This is for the people who are invested or speculating (you crazy guys!), I did a roughly annotated map:
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Assays from bulk sample D (680kg) and E (282kg), which I posted earlier, originally I thought both were from Kitolo but on further reading E is from Carriere 6 in the Manono pegmatite:
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The very encouraging part and what I realised lately is those D and E samples are literally kilometres apart - in a pegmatite that some postulate may be connected and strikes about 13-15km across in the main license and could extend in the extensions permit. Spodumene outcroppings have been visually sighted around the man made lake in the middle, and huge 1m+ crystals sighted at the kahungwe pegmatite in north east.
Sample D and E were lab tested for gravity/ density separation and both able to produce Spodumene (6.24-6.6%) and Cassiterite concentrate (50%+ sn) in gravity/density tests with 10mm and 4mm crush sizes at recoveries 65 - 83% which is good (IMO - sorry no Phd) for preliminary testing with no flotation.
The above was the work of Jp Bassot for the French Geological Survey (BRGM), a completely independent expert. He also notes in his conclusions that Spodumene could be 25-30% of the pegmatite by weight, but obviously this is based on his findings of just two bulk samplings done and not representative. I've seen lower estimates as well.
This tells me there is potential for Spodumene production with Tin as a credit. I don't have the PHD but an expert geologist like Keith R Evans, with 40 years of Lithium experience who first identified potential of the Atacama deposit that SQM operate also agrees on the potential, see his earlier quote I posted.
