Awesome is the simplest term.

To extrapolate, they did a test to see what the gold recovery rate was for this particular deposit - and from my little bit of experience, it came back excellent.

One of the big overhanging questions marks of this deposit was due to the nuggety nature of the gold, could it be milled efficiently? This answer this question with a resounding yes.

It's 2 steps. First step is mechanically seperate the gold by gravity. Crush the stuff and the heavier gold falls to the bottom. Dead simple.

Second step is use the chemically seprate the gold from crushed ore. Basically you soak the stuff in cyanide (?) for a quite while....this dissolves the gold into the liquid, then you drain the liquid out and extract the gold from that solution.

This is as rough (and probably VERY wrong) a description as you can get, but may spur some furhter discussion.

Major question answered and I was not expecting this at all. I really like Franks quotes about moving to production and this move tells me that this is where the company is headed. Very impressive!!