RE: northern miner articleMacSteph, thanks for prompting me to revisit the Northern Mining article and bringing to my attention the following:
"...Results from the separate, 6-tonne sampling program will help determine the distribution, size variation and continuity of the diamonds between drill holes, but because the sample excavations are only 1 metre deep, Ryder says the project cannot even be considered to be at the mini-bulk sampling stage yet. Pre-mini-bulk sampling is more like it."
The "only 1 metre deep" points jumps out at me because all DOR's drilling results make reference to the drilling depth in metres...that is:
"...Drill hole Chab 05-16 intersected Leadbetter conglomerate from 15.00 to 169.00 metres (154.00 metre intercept) and a total of 1044 diamonds were recovered from the 343.75 kilograms of core that was processed."
Can someone clear this up for me.
Thanks, Brian