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    Glad to hear that Barb, I grew up with the rumor that the impurity was something like what you said, now I can put the rumor into the fact column.
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    If I recall correctly, the engineers at the Idarado told me that the copper, lead, and zinc paid the operational expenses of the mine and the gold and silver was profit. I'm sure that was a generalization, but their point was we could all see the copper, lead, and zinc, but we couldn't see the gold and silver in the rock.

    Ron
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    "I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."

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    Hi Ron

    That sounds about right!
    Kiltmaker, piper, and geologist (one of the few, the proud, with brains for rocks....
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    Geology stuff (mostly) at http://people.hamilton.edu/btewksbu
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