RE: RE: RE: Conference Call HighlightsCan you explain infill drilling? Not sure how its done or how long it takes. To do 96 holes seems like a large undertaking.
Here is my understanding - we have a series of holes in the ground laid out roughly like a grid. The holes go down at various angles etc, to try and find out which way the gold veins and geologic structures are laid out underground.
The spacing between the new holes might be 50 meters or something and they arrived at this spacing based on being able to use the old data from a previous grid of holes from a previous campaign. If you overlaid the old holes and the new ones you might get a grid spacing of 25meters or a concentration in some really well known areas of gold concentration. Now that the old holes cannot be used, they have to decide where in the geologic model they do not have enough "current" data or information to properly define the veins and geologic structures and then drill there.
I'm sure the geologists are going to look at all 96 holes and decide some are needed to be twinned (drill a new one as closely beside the old hole) and some just are not required at all.
They are "infilling" the grid and as a result infilling the data in the model. As for timing, probably as long as a standard hole, and 96 holes would be a huge undertaking, which is why I suspect that some are just not going to be required at all.