mayay mayday, page-17

I applaude CC's approach on defining the resource. I have been involved in the met accounting of several gold projects where the mine to mill reconcilliation has been negative.

It is very common these days as companies try to market themselves by talking up the grades. Then when the poor old metallurgist can't reconcile to the mine called grade the geo's and mining engineers get in cohoots and gang up on the metallurgist as they see the mill as a big black box that the gold apparently disappeared into.

It would be good for a change to work somewhere where the met accounting was just a task, not a political witch hunt.

Whist I am ranting, I aslo believe that juniors underestimate the importance of a good metallurgist in their group. They have geo's and mining engineers and then at the last minute they look for a met. And this leads to the commissioning and ramp up at the mill being longer and more difficult than it needs to be.