2009-07-26_INSPECTION - M1978135HR

• Permit No: M1978135HR
• IBM Index Class Name: INSPECTION
• Doc Date: 7/26/2009
• Doc Name: PB Abatement
• From: Blue Jet Mining Inc.
• To: DRMS
• Inspection Date: 6/23/2009
• Email Name: GRM
• Media Type: D
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began reworking the tailings from the first operation. They
found that the tailings contained what they described as a
new formed amount of gold.
I have witnessed this same type of reaction on gold
ores that were mined in the Ironsprings Divide. I worked
with my Father and Mother and Great Uncle, sluice gold
from a mining property in this area when I was ten years old.
When I learned to pan, my job was to check our recovery
by panning the tailings for gold that we had lost. When I
checked the tails I did not find very much gold. After the
tailings set for a long time they would change color. I
decided to pan some of these tailings and found that there
was more gold in the tailings than there should have been.
This mystery. stayed in my mind for many years.
We used the advice of one of the guys from the Bureau
of mines on how to have the ore assayed. We were told
that you should send a split of the same sample to several
assayers. The results were so different that we did not know
which report was correct.
This is why I started studying all the information on
different ways to treat and assay different types of ore. This
way if I found gold in the sample then I knew there was gold
in it and did not have to wonder if an assayer report was
true. The source of where the gold came from that is in the
Ironsprings Divide has been a mystery for many years. The
early day prospectors and miners searched all the surrounding
areas trying to find the source and failed. President Herbert
Hoover wrote a report on the area and stated that the gold
does not show evidence of being transported very far. The
gold is angular and has sharp edges and is not typical of gold
that-has. een transported for long a distance. Herbert Hoover
stated that the gold looks as it has come from decomposed
tellurides and sulphide 4-he,gold appears to have been
decomposed after it was deposited`Tha`aSGS produced a
map and a preliminary report on this same in-1-96, and
could not find the source of the heavy mineral suit and the
gold.
My family and I have assayed many samples from
this area. When we found the sulphide deposit, we thought
we had found the source of the gold. We fire assayed many
hundreds of samples from this sulphide ore. Our results
varied a lot, but most only showed a trace to .02 ounces
per ton. We ground a large sample and table concentrated
some of the sulphide ore hoping it would reveal more gold.
I panned a sample of this concentrate and it was not very
good, so the rest of this concentrate was stored on a shelf in
the lab. I can recall when we found out that the sulphide did
contain a lot of gold. It was on January 2, 1969 and there
was a lot of snow on the ground. My cousin was working
with a uranium ore that contained some sulphide, and he
wanted to compare our sulphide to his. When he called me,
I told him the only sample of sulphide we had was one that
we had table concentrated around a year ago. I explained
that there may not be very much sulphide left because it
had oxidized a lot. When I finished panning the sample I
got a very big surprise, it contained a lot of free gold. The
larger unit we built worked fair, but the pressure that the
roast made was too much for the unit to control. I tried to
obtain some help from a lab in Nevada that was headed by a
Mr. Kenneth Broadhead. I sent him two samples of ore, both
were from the same head ore only one sample I treated and
the other was untreated. Mr. Kenneth Broadhead sent me
an assay that showed the following results, the roasted 6.31
ounces per ton gold and .441 ounces per ton platinum. The
untreated showed .005 ounces per ton gold and .009 ounces
per ton platinum. After I reviewed the reports, I called Mr.
Broadhead and asked if he could explain the difference in
the two samples. I explained that both were from the same
head sample, only one was roasted and one was not.. Mr.
Kenneth Broadhead told me the name of the chemist that
would be doing the test and to send another sample and
include the instructions on,how to roast it. I sent the sample
and felt that here was the opportunity to finally get some
real backup on this complex ore. hen I received the report
the results were the same as the first untreated sample, next
door to nothing. I then called the chemist that was supposed
to follow my instructions and asked him how you treated the
sample. He stated I did not feel that your method was"eeded,
so I treated it my way. I argued with him but just wasted my
-breath. I wish I would have had a copy of the Russian article,
that was described earlier in this document, and then I could
have shown him that-the-procedure is widely used by some
of the top chemists in the assay of precious metals.
Carpco Inc. ran some separation tests on a concentrate
that was obtained from some of the placer material that came
from the Ironsprings Divide. All the free gold was removed
from this sample. After these samples were separated, they
were sent to the University of Georgia for microprobe work.
The values are reported in percentages and very interesting.
They found .1 in gold and 1.2 to 8.0 in iridium (a platinum
group metal) and identified some platinum. The major
mineral the sample contained was monazite. In addition
the University of Georgia performed quantitative chemical
analyses of the monazite and iridium. The report shows that
the rare earth concentration in the iridium contained Gd203,
Dy203, Ho203, Er20, and Yb203. This shows that these rare
earth metals were in combination with the iridium. This
would explain why a sample of the rare earths that was tested
earlier by another geologist showed the specific gravity to be
15 to 16; all the rare minerals are much lighter than this.
I found another method that worked on releasing the
gold, but it was very time consuming. This new method
would vary from four to eight weeks on each different
sample on the time it took to release the gold. I have now
developed a method that after five minutes of leaching can
be panned and free gold can be seen. Most samples need to
leach around one or two hours to show the best results. Most
of the gold that is liberated is in very fine particles, with the
exception that some of the gold will form tiny spheres (tiny
round beads). The sample will show copper colored, silver
colored, grey colored pieces of metal that has the same shape
as the gold.
I am building a grinding unit that will handle around
three hundred pounds of ore. The largest sample that I have
treated was one hundred pounds and took me several hours
to grind it in a small Bico disk mill. I had to save the tailings
and retable those several times to recover the gold. I then
fire assayed the concentrate and recovered 1.45 grams of
gold. I have the documents and assays to back up the reports
above.
Mr. Zimmerman owns and operates the Blue Jet
Mning Inc. company based in Colorado. He can be reached
by sending correspondence to: P.O. Box 181, Craig, CO
81626, or by telephone at [phone].

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