In the July 2 CVN, Dave Werner wrote a letter to the editor asserting that mine industry expert Jim Kuipers’ analysis of Constantine Metal Resources’ preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the Palmer Project was a “scam,” in that it calls into question the marketability of barite. Werner suggests that barite will be trucked directly to the North Slope. This is incorrect.
At Constantine’s mining forum in March, Constantine President Garfield McVeigh explicitly stated that the…