[quote Eugene]They saw gold 550 feet below the surface and 200 feet west of the spot labelled “RES10-59,60,61”.
Hole 60 saw gold, most other holes weren’t deep enough. It looks like only 52 and 54 had any real chance of finding gold, if it’s in that general area, more than 500 ft. below the surficae.[/quote]
I was not completely discounting the gold, but I was more worried about the pattern of drilling as well as how they were playing up the gold. I checked the prices on ‘crawler core-drillers’. Just under $200k for a good one that will drill 1000 meters down. In the mean time, they burned over $1mil for a year and not many cores to show for it. They have also ‘repeated’ several cores and limited their depth as well as traveling patterns more likely to yield a core with some rare earths as opposed to using the core drilling to determine extent, size and layout of the field. BTW crawler core-drillers can run straight up the hill, drilling cores. They are basically a core driller with a dozer styled drive system.
