Another:
Pampana River Black Sands Analysis 12/01/10
lbs/ton value/ton value/40 ton container
Hf hafnium 3.38 $994 $37,798
Ti titanium 1.93 $637 $25,509
Au gold .034 $573 $22,920
Ce cerium 17.5 $397 $15,880
Nd neodymium 9.05 $287 $11.480
total for top 5 commodities in one 40 ton container $113,587
These are the top 5 most valuable commodities in SNEY's black sands...only the top five of over 24 known to have value. Based on estimates from samples in 2010, one 40 ton container is valued at $155,880.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is...n56430063/
Spot price of gold in 2010 $1,410. Today spot price $1,654.
Sunergy Announces Further Analytical Results for Its Pampana River Heavy Mineral Sands and Discovers Additional Platinum Group Metals (PGM's) and Silver in Potential Economic Amounts 1/04/12
http://www.sunergygold.com/press_releases/pr_01_04_2012.php
Quote:
we have discovered that the sands contain potential economic quantities of Silver, Platinum and Palladium, in addition to the known Gold and Rare Earth Elements.
Today's spot price:
Silver $31/oz
Platinum $1590/oz
Palladium $637/oz
www.kitco.com/gold.londonfix.html
Quote:
The quantitative results have ranged from 4 to the mid 100's for Palladium, the mid 10's for Platinum and 170 ppm for Gold except for Silver which is in the range of several hundred ppm (1 ppm = 1 gram/ ton).
grams/ton ounces/ton value/ton value/40ton container
Pd ~75 2.64 $1681 $67,267
Pt ~15 .52 $826 $33,072
Au 170 5.99oz/5.4troy $8931 $357,264
Ag ~300 10.58 $328 $13,199
New estimate value of 40 ton container..... $603,762
Me thinks Mr. Beckmann is a nice addition to the team.
