Barker Minerals Ltd BKMNF

RE: I need help understanding the results.

[goldmember2]

Trenching is normally done in the initial stages of an exploration project, often after you have delineated and geochemical anomaly in soils or discovered an outcrop with mineralization in it. Trenching serves to give a larege, cleaner exposure of the mineralized bedrock. Typically, for best effect, channel samples are taken perpendicular to the trend of the vein/zone/structure. Channel sampling is done by creating two continuous parallel cuts a few inches apart and a couple inches deep in the bedrock using a diamond saw; then, the rock is chipped out leaving a "channel". The samples are taken a regular intervals, say every 1 metre, along the channel. This is the closest approximation to a drillhole that you can get without actually drilling and allows you to report a dimension to the sampling e.g. "Channel sampling returned values of 50 g/t Ag over 3.2 metres and 72 g/t Ag over 5.3 metres". Grab samples are rather useless other than to indicate that there is some metal in the rock; they are not statistically representative of the mineralized zone. Chip samples are something between a grab sample and a proper channel sample. I don't know why, after going to the effort of doing all this trenching, they wouldn't take the effort to take a series of representative channel samples to truly quantify the dimensions and grades of the zone. You will notice that the chip samples reported in the NR have distinctly lower grades than the grab samples. If widths are not reported, then it is impossible to assess the size of the zone, and without drilling, there is NO indication of subsurface continuity and you cannot calculate a reliable resource.

This property has been trenched on several occasions. It's time to get on and do some drilling, for heaven's sake! This property has been talked about for years now, they even mentioned in an old NR that they were getting permtited to take a bullk sample, but they haven't sunk a single drillhole in it yet. Why not? We KNOW there is mineralization at surface - great!...now poke a few holes in it downdip...if there's some continuity below surface, then we can start getting excited; if not, then too bad, and move on to another target.

I hope this helps you out a bit Tom.

gm2