The Platinum Cannon Shipwreck - 20th Century Alchemy- Chapter 6- Synthetic Production- 1

The Platinum Cannon Shipwreck
A modern tale of Alchemy
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Chapter 6 Synthetic Production of Precious Metals from Black Sands

INTRODUCTION

Many of you associated with the mining and/or metallurgical industries have at least once viewed a black sands analysis which reported yields hundreds of times higher in precious metals than physically thought possible. Or, you have viewed reports from people such as Don Jordon (Alpha Research), Greg Iseman(Iseman Consulting) or national corporations like Beckman Laboratories who have repeatedly stated that many "black sands" contain high values of silver, gold, iridium, osmium, palladium, platinum, rhodium and ruthenium. More often than not, these analyses report staggering precious metal yields equating to financial gains in the thousands of dollars per ton. The calculation of in-ground reserves by simple mathematics became the first problem. Most calculators lack sufficient decimal places to display the dollar amount of these inflated reserves.

Needless to say, an unsurmountable second problem quickly surfaced. When the excited black sands owner took his "cache" to the Johnson Matthey's of the world, they would find that the refiner could only find a trace of silver and no gold or platinum metals!

Where is the problem? Are the analytical analyses erroneous or are the refineries trying to protect the "Gold and Platinum Metal" values? One can forget about any cloak and dagger maneuvers from the refineries. For Dr. Cleare, President--Johnson Matthey, North America and Dr. Scheffhauser, Englehart's Vice-President--New Product Development, both wait with anticipation to view the outcome of this continuing research. So why the fallacious analytical reports?

To understand the problems, one must gain a comprehension of industrial procedures used in the refineries. A common procedure in determining gold and platinum metals consists of first reducing the precious metals to a metallic form, a bar or button of (x)% purity. The metallic form is then further reduced to a liquid media by various forms of acids. This acid solution is placed within an apparatus and allowed to be volitized by a high temperature flame. As the precious metals are volitized, they, like all of the other elements, absorb energies. Each element has numerous individual absorption wavelengths. By analysis of the absorbed energies and specific wavelengths, the system operator can easily determine the type of metals, precious or not, and arrive at a quantitative relationship to the original starting metallic weight before the dissolving process. Inductive Coupled Plasma (ICP) is a readily accepted technology which provides this data. By the way, this, or similar technologies are utilized by Don Jordon, Greg Iseman and Beckman Laboratories.

Now why can't the Johnson Matthey's detect the high levels of gold and platinum metals seen in these assays? Could it be dubiousness of operator technical skills? What about fraud? These are all obvious questions which have been addressed by numerous people in witness?ship of such reports. To set the record straight, I will unequivocally state no fraud, nor operator errors caused the reports of the inflated high precious metal yields. For the precious metals were present in their analyses. The questions are: How, why, and the reasons why the Johnson Mattheys haven't viewed such an occurrence?