How to eat a blue whale
Published: Tue, 05/13/14
beautiful blue whales?
Just making a point here. I'm not really eating whales (at
least this week).
But, if you WERE to eat a delicious endangered whale, you would
start with small pieces. Just pick a "meaty" spot and
start carving him up.
I doubt you can Google directions on how to butcher such an animal.
(I've never tried)
You have to just start small and manageable.
Maybe find a whaling expert for advice.
The same is true in the testing business.
Even though my lab can turn around tests quickly, it's not
always the best way to go.
For instance, if you are out exploring large areas for prized
minerals like frac sand, barite, and rare earth metals, you might
be doing the "shotgun blast" approach.
Taking multiple samples from wide areas and then hoping for the
best test results from at least one of those samples.
Testing for frac sand this way, I recommend starting
"small" first. Let's do a sieve analysis, test the
acid solubility of the sand, turbidity, and test sphericity and
roundness. Then, if that material still looks promising, move onto
crush resistance testing.
When testing for drilling grade barite, we can start small here
too. Let's do density testing of your samples first. For
testing barite, we need a 200 mesh or smaller sample (although I can
process ore, but I'll charge you for it).
Then, once the density is "proved up" for drilling grade
barite, we can do the rest of API barite testing.
For rare earth metals testing, send some ore samples or a crushed
sample (to 200 mesh size).
I'll take it from there - do a thorough rare earth metals
analysis and show what concentrations of each you might have.
So, just like eating whales, when testing for frac sand, drilling
grade barite, or rare earth metals, it's important to get
expert advice and sometimes start small.
If you want to hire us for all of that (except for the whale
butchering thing), reply to this e-mail, give me a call, or go here:
http://www.globalenergylaboratories.com/