RE re-readWe defined the outsides. We shot the middle and found the barren zone (andesite). We are following the fluid path. What we still don't have is the main root zone. I predicted multiple zones. We've found them. I said we should follow the south dip and grades would increase. This turns out to be right. The report identifies the Hickman Batholith as the pluton responsible for our deposits and cites that they can be hundreds of miles long. This is true.
What we should find is that our system is classical but it is on the order of 10 times resolution. We think the west brechia is a finger system formed from a small hot fluid/gas burp. I think if we stand back and look at the whole system it begins to look more like the entire thing is a brechia with contacts joined by fluid flows between the systems. Because it's so large there are what appears to be distinct deposits. Metalurgy backs up the seperate deposits idea but I think it's a matter of scale. Regionalized chemical changes and perhaps metioric water bombardment are what changed the charateristics of the zones and less impact from other sources is what we are seeing. The Hickman would provide the boiler plate but this doesn't really explain the north zones as well as it should.
Our layer cake played a big role in the formation for sure but where is the root zone? I think we have multiple root zones or as I would deem it, very large brechia. Take the north zone as one giant finger in a colosal brechia system. This starts to make sense when you look at Paget, Mess Creek and Red Chris etc. In this case it makes more sense to do what Elmer is doing. Focus on them 1 at a time and treat them a seperate entities instead of a single trend. The 20km anaomaly supports this idea while being a little misleading with respect to it being 1 trend.
Typically the halo is 500 meters deep and our drilling has defined that. Higher quality mineralization is found adhered to the edges of the vent system and therefore we should encounter these as we go. I think ours are on a scale of 10-30 meters given the size of the fluid channels that would be required to form our deposit. This is evident in 2 other mine. One in Chile and one in Australia. The Chile mine show strong mineralization along a thrust event. Ours are much more vertical suggesting the roots should be under us. RC proved this at great depth.
If I'm right we should see a hint of this in the Titan. In that case one 1200 meter hole is called for. If that turned out to be correct then a second 1200 meter hole is required 50 meters east of anomaly 1. We should also find that the hottest zone is by the Hickman zone and based of dip we should find subsequent zones to the north but under thicker over burden. If all of this is correct we will need to pull out all the stops on the Paramount zone and get us sold. Our next target should be north east. I estimate this system to be 80-100 km by 30-40 wide km in a north east direction. This is on the scale of Yellowstone and not descrete occurances.