I didnt mean it to be rhetorical Friendly, but maybe you took it that way, as the same questions have been asked and gone unanswered for so many years. Sooner or later these concerns have to be addressed by ISM. It will be a huge disappointment if ISM leaves this information out in the next promised Ni 43-101 we are supposed to see within a few months.
The ni recovery in ISMs higher average grade mineralization is only a very small fraction of the overall Resource mentioned. The major part of the Resource is at much lower average grades. You will definately not get the same recovery when average grades drop off.
The higher grade recovery isnt that bad on the mineralization tested, but you have to remember how small a percent that mineralization is of the entire Resource. You were talking about and comparing ISM results to that of UMJs. UMJ have more Copper content than NI in their grades, and that would certainly offset costs and make things more economical. I am still asking does ISM have the equivalent grade of copper in their results?
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