RE: RE: RE: RE: GOLD-.----In this case, there are two types of "grab", straight from the news release.
The first is a chip sample, (which is not really a grab sample, but the post that inspired this seems to include it) where DDN machine chips through a vein of interest exposed at the surface and takes all the chips as the basis for analysis. The grab sample could be a rock/boulder or hammered out at surface, but it is a contiguous solid sample. Method not specified, but would have been documented, photographed, gps'ed, etc. Rare for companies to post the minute and boring details, but they do exist, and would have been recorded by the lab doing the work.
So it is quite frustrating to get the poster a couple back from yours who seems to think that grab samples are some kind of monkey business, and then uses a very repudible company who made a mine (TYS, Baherachi) as an example of said monkey business.
The onsite geologist cannot just drill anywhere, and geophysics is of very little value unless there is site work done. That is what the grab samples are for. You can bet DDN took lots of grab samples from many locations on the property, but these are the ones that yielded results.
Cheers,
Ogre
Define a grab sample for us Ogre... in how you understand it.. how you define it..
Take Care!
InDaMoney
