RE: Not exactly right ChondThe gold is coming from veins that are too narrow, wrong attitude (vertical dip) and too inconsistently mineralized to be mined by conventional methods.
Hmmmmm ... Beach, that sounds like most gold that is extracted from greenstone beltsup to 3000m underground ... Red Lake, Abitibi, and soon Beardmore.
I think it doesn't matter how wide a vein is, the grade is important ... unfortunately the locasl have already stripped the good ones.