the robert emmett cross course, page-2

Great find Bob - do you know if we have progressed any further on the "40 meters to the Robert Emmett Course"?

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£10 per ton - not bad when you think of the POG at the time:

"During the 1880-1914 period, the "mint parity" between the U.S. dollar and sterling was approximately $4.87, based on a U.S. official gold price of $20.67 per ounce and a U.K. official gold price of £ 4.24 per ounce. "

This means that the ore they mention was more than 2 oz (62grams) per ton !!

The only part of the article that worries me is the:- "when exposed to the weather for a while it will crumble away" - the last thing we need at this point is a rock fall.

But maybe HEG engineers can learn a thing or 2 from the old-timers - they should take a batch of ore and "expose it to the weather for a few days" and then see how easy it crushes - who needs a Jaw-Crusher and a rubber-lined ball mill when we could get the ore to just crumbles away!!