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goldhunter11on Aug 26, 2019 9:39am
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Drilling at Baloo
Drilling at BalooAccording to Graeme Sloan in the latest interview with Mikey, part of the 5000m exploration drill has been completed at BH. The balance is now for drilling at Baloo. They have moved the spare drill to Baloo for the purpose of "defininition drilling" ....to try to locate high-grade zones at their active open-pit. It would appear that they would start near the fault line (north of it?) and mining would move in as close as possible to the fault line from both sides.
Let's assume they have about 2000m of drilling reserved for Baloo. It would be easier/faster/cheaper to drill more shallow holes (for the "definition drilling") than driling from UG at BH. They can punch 40 holes of 50m depth in a short period of time (while they mine Baloo).
Question for mining engineers: common sense says that the pit wall should be on stable rock, so RNX would try to avoid mining the fault itself. But, the fault is probably where there gold has been puking out. So, would it be worth while taking a bit of a risk, i.e. mining the fault, but with a remote controlled digger, to keep the operator from potential danger?
GH11
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