quite some time ago that Pierre was purchasing a hand held analyzer as per below?

Just reading up on it a bit and from what the literatue states, that thing should be able to give SFMI a world of info on the ore piles, ore samples and readings from the Sinker. Anyone have any idea on what ever happened to such valuable potential info or the...

Hand held XRF Analyzers?

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GPS located mine samples that can be integrated real time into production operations

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Ores

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Mill heads and tails

Concentrates

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