"Discovery" of the StockpileThis discovery that the "picnic ground" was not natural terrain created a new wrinkle in the whole process - but not one without benefits. It became necessary to find the size of this man-made terrain and understand the original bedrock terrain - It might be possible to drive a new portal in a couple of hundred feet downslope to aid the dewatering process to the 800 ft level or deeper - a development which would be highly beneficial to future mining costs as well !