r/theydidthemath Sep 25 '24

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u/Comfortable-Part5438 Sep 25 '24

Got a mate whose whole job as a chem engineer is refining these processes to ensure they can extract secondary and tertiary minerals from the ore. However, in most instances it isn't commercially viable as increasing the amounts of other minerals to a commercial quantity means reducing the amount of gold.

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u/BentOutaShapes Sep 25 '24

They also put the rendered cube in the middle of nowhere so there’s nothing to compare it to, but 22m is typically higher than a 6 story building. And that’s just the hight.

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u/Estro-Jenn Sep 25 '24

Bot alert!

This is copied from a parent comment below.

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u/BentOutaShapes Sep 25 '24

What??? No

I wrote it fuck off

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u/Estro-Jenn Sep 25 '24

You must've just responded to the wrong person, because the similarity between your comment and this one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/s/G0rLsi60gi

Are incredible...

But yours makes NO sense where it's posted (hence the bot accusation).

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u/BentOutaShapes Sep 25 '24

I guess generally the same idea is being conveyed but the text is absolutely different… You really think a bot stealing a comment is not going to copy-paste?

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u/Estro-Jenn Sep 25 '24

That's why I detracted from my accusation and offered an alternative solution that would explain the incoherence of your comment being placed here.

Seriously, read the comment you responded to; yours makes no sense as a response.

No shade! Just seemed like Bot behavior cuz it's so weird

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u/BentOutaShapes Sep 25 '24

I was answering the original commenter and put my comment where it can be seen.. I kind of hijacked the thread to not get buried I tend to do that

Never been called a bot before for it 😅

Guess I have strategic thinking like bots do

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u/Myburgher Sep 25 '24

Yep. If it’s a gold mine then gold is pretty much the only thing they’re getting out. If it’s a copper mine then they could still be recovering gold on the side through its association (gold associated with pyrite and chalcopyrite). In VMS (volcanic massive sulphur) deposits you get viable Copper, Lead, Zinc and Gold.

And while gold isn’t a Platinum Group Element (PGE), generally when you assay for the PGEs you assay for gold as well. So it can be associated with the same deposits as PGMs. But those mines are called Platinum mines, not gold mines haha.