I'm not sure if this last post was also in relation to myself.
I was tagged to provide an assessment of the results. Whether it's ionic or not pretty much determines whether its economical or not. Which should not be confused with simply finding rare earth in clays.
It's important posters know the difference. I also rarely pop onto threads unless asked or see something grossly misleading. Even then i usually don't provide input unless asked.
In reference to your second point the company has in fact inferred the deposit to be ionic on several occasions. "funding secured for Ionic REE project" and "IAC style REE's confirmed".
Don't know about you but that's seems to read strongly in a particular direction but remaining cautious to also word with things like "prospective for" "ionic style" etc etc.
In case you're not aware i'm tagged in many REO stocks to provide opinions and my ones here are actually quite positive because it stacks up so far.
Simply informing the shareholders that if the company and anyone here actually wants to know if it's ionic at any point in the future and to what degree they need to do leach testing under neutral PH using monovalent salts. (usually ammonium sulphate/sodium chloride and occasional magnesium sulphate).
The notion that weak aqua regia is a sufficient test for "loosely bound REO" is pretty much inaccurate in an economical sense.
Attached provides a description for both lithium borate fusion and 'aqua regia' which at times can either be a 4 stage acid digest diluted or 2 stage. both a laboratory methods for analysing a sample
Also attached is a lateric geochem sampling sheet which essentially intends to state to anyone to what degree of accuracy a particular method of sampling can detect elements in the ground.
Note aqua regia and aqua regia digest have fairly accurate results when compared to the certified value. Meaning it's a pretty accurate way to sample a result. Borate's SD (standard deviation) is slightly lower meaning it's an even more accurate method to sample a result.
Long story short. "recoveries" when they are presented as a comparison test for 2 different sampling methodologies should not be confused for economical extraction recoveries, nor should weak aqua regia be considered standard for detection of Ionic material. That's why are not explicitly stating it's ionic unless they've tested with neutral ph under leach tests - but some are eluding to it without actually proving it.
Will not post further unless tagged and requested, only post to be constructive and help.
Also i am only commenting on the REO tenements have no idea what other projects and TAR could be a great buy based on that. Could even be a great buy on the REO as they currently stand - certainly better and cheaper than others who have much worse results and also not confirmed ionic yet so there ya go.
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