Barker Minerals Ltd BKMNF

RE: What, ...?

[goldmember2]

The results are not that great really. The grades are quite low overall. Most of the copper results would be sub-ore grade for a porphyry copper deposit. let alone a massive sulphide deposit, and the lead-zinc grades are well below ore grade for typical economic massive sulphide deposits. Besides, they are GRAB samples. I don't know why companies even bother to report grab samples which are essentially random chunks of rock, not particularly representative of the zone or overall rock mass. Statistically and quantitatively they are meaningless. The only thing they can assess is that there are anomalous quantities of metals in a body of rock. The more acceptable practice, in the absence of drilling, is to obtain channel samples. In this case, one uses a rock saw to cut a continuous "channel" along the mineralized zone, perpendicular to the strike of the vein/zone, and then extract a continuous sample from the channel along lengths of say a metre or so. This is the closest thing to drilling in that you can report a grade and a sample length, as well as a true width of the zone. This is the only relevant information in my opinion that one can use to properly assess a zone.

gm2