QUOTE FORM CRUXThese CRUX boys have a lot of answering to do. Yep, this is what CRUX said back in February: "What we are not sure about is whether the Company may have smeared results from down-hole, or not. Of course it is tempting to report good grades over wide thicknesses, but it can potentially lead to misrepresentation of the integrity of the deposit in the public arena.
"For a Company, or indeed the investor, to recognise smearing is important, as smearing hides the fact that the target may not be as consistently present as implied. Not only that, but smeared grades have a significant impact in the resource estimation process as the very high grades that contribute to the good average grade of an intersection would be cut to a much lower value if they were just constrained to the source structure, and not smeared. We are uncomfortable with some of the data that has been presented by New Found Gold, as it looks as if some of the results have indeed been smeared."