RE:RE:RE:REMOVING the UNCERTAINTY...The beauty of the Beaton's Creek conglomerates is that even though the grade is about 2.78 gpt they are very shallow and can be easily mined. The mining only takes a grader and backhoe to scrap off the thin overburden and scoop up the conglomerate layer. No blasting, no drilling. See the Novo DGF presentation for images of gathering of the bulk sample which was done last year.