Bre-X: Gold Today, Gone Tomorrow : Anatomy of the Busang Swindle |
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Page 70
... samples that held coarse gold . De Guzman was concerned about the reproducibility of the assays . Exploration companies rarely assay their own samples in the field ; analytical equipment is too expensive to buy for every pro- ject and ...
... samples that held coarse gold . De Guzman was concerned about the reproducibility of the assays . Exploration companies rarely assay their own samples in the field ; analytical equipment is too expensive to buy for every pro- ject and ...
Page 202
... samples - each one a bag of crushed rock weighing about a kilo- gram , and each from a different drill intersection at Busang — into four composite samples . Each composite weighed several hundred kilograms . By April , the drums ...
... samples - each one a bag of crushed rock weighing about a kilo- gram , and each from a different drill intersection at Busang — into four composite samples . Each composite weighed several hundred kilograms . By April , the drums ...
Page 206
... samples from the same interval to match , the bag's contents would have to be salted before the 750- gram sample of crushed material was divided off . It would take 32.5 milligrams of gold in a 13 - kilogram sample of rock to give ...
... samples from the same interval to match , the bag's contents would have to be salted before the 750- gram sample of crushed material was divided off . It would take 32.5 milligrams of gold in a 13 - kilogram sample of rock to give ...
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Preface | 7 |
The Seeds of Discontent | 28 |
BreX and Borneo | 50 |
Copyright | |
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