Negative results obtained in AMS searches by Dellinger et al. on mostly unrefined ores have led them to conclude that the very heavy long-lived species found in chemically processed samples with ICP-SFMS by Marinov et al. are artifacts. We argue that it may not be surprising that results obtained from small random samplings of inhomogeneous natural minerals would contrast with concentrations found in homogeneous materials extracted from large quantities of ore. We also point out that it is possible that the groups of counts at masses 296 and 294 seen by Dellinger et al. could be, within experimental uncertainties, due to Another comment we would like to make is related to the conclusion of Dellinger et al. that based on their results, there are no naturally-occurring SHEs. In addition to what was mentioned above [4][5][6][7] and also in [9], it seems to us that even their results could indicate the contrary. We refer in particular to Fig. 4(b) in [3] on 296 Rg and Fig. 11(b) in [1] on 294 eka-Bi. Both spectra are clean, without pile-up. In the first one there is a group of five events and in the second one there is a group of six events,