From Metal Augmentor
https://www.metalaugmentor.com/eforum/?page_id=809
Creso Exploration (TSX-V: CXT; Pink Sheets: CRXEF)
Creso Exploration Reports 280 m of 1.15 g/t Gold from Preliminary MintoHole 3 Drill Results in the Shining Tree Area, NE Ontario
–Basically Creso has a small high gradepipe near surface that they have been drilling with oblique-angledholes, which accounts for the bonanza grade over significant intercepts.This is a 100,000 ounce range resource that could potentially support asmall mining operation but does not deserve serious attentionotherwise. In an attempt to see if the system descends at depth,however, the company drilled some deeper holes and came back with goodintercepts but not at grades or thicknesses that would support aneconomic operation at those depths unless lateral dimensions areextensive.
They did add some “hope” to the releaseby suggesting they are proximal to an alkalic gold system, which aresometimes known to have significant tonnages of high grade (required atthese depths), although typically with complicated structural controlsthat can account for hit-and-miss exploration (expensive at thesedepths). Evidence for the “big alkalic gold system” is Na depletion andpresence of tellurium (note that other geological factors think alkalicporphyry can account for this as well), but until they actually identifythe actual porphyry stock, assuming there is even one, this is all onlyspeculation.
Even if it turns out to be an alkalicgold system, that doesn’t guarantee much — Evolving Gold has a confirmedexample of one and has a market cap a bit over $100 million (about 1.5xCreso). Recently in Ontario as well, Gold Canyon (TSX-V: GCU; PinkSheets: GDCRF) has been making big noise about its Springpole goldproject but this also looks to be of limited size despite the bestefforts of that management to portray it as a massive gold deposit —after its massive move higher, Gold Canyon now has a similar market capto Evolving. Speaking more on alkalic gold systems, only the ones withvery extensive veining became major gold districts, and owing to theability of these systems to form disseminated deposits, that is whatmade Cripple Creek and Lihir so valuable. These disseminations shouldnot be very difficult to find, and I would argue that if you don’t findthem in large volumes than that may speak strongly about the extent ofmineralization in the veins as well. Circular logic, I know, but itgenerally works in this case.
Generally what these examples are provingis that not all alkalic gold deposits are the size of Cripple Creek orLihir. Of course in the current market frenzy it is altogether possiblefor Creso to still zoom skyward, but I am unable to find strongfundamental reasons to be on board here. [Silverax]