RE: Drilling the bullseyeI'm excited about Hole 407 too.
But I fear that folks on this board have unrealistic expectations about "the bullseye".
I'm not a geologist, and if anyone on this board is a geologist and can correct me, then please do so. My comments today are based on the remarks made by "Rockaur" to this forum in Feb & March 2011:
https://www.stockhouse.com/Bullboards/MessageDetail.aspx?s=CUU&t=LIST&m=29387900&l=0&pd=0&r=0
https://www.stockhouse.com/Bullboards/MessageDetail.aspx?s=CUU&t=LIST&m=29388518&l=0&pd=0&r=0
(thank you Chappy for originally directing me to these remarks from Rockaur)
Rockaur said that the red zone on the Interpreted Cross Section is an area of high chargeability. Nothing more. There may be economically valuable minerals in the high chargeability zone, but there may not be. Quite likely, the red zone is simply a geological feature which does not have, in its core, a lot of economically valuable minerals. Note that the sameInterpreted Cross Section diagram shows a smaller shallower high chargeability zone in the centre of the picture -- drill hole # 142 went right through it and didn't hit any richly mineralized areas.
Rockaur's suggestion was that you more often find zones of economic mineralization around the edges of a high chargeability zone -- not in its centre. Drill hole 405 was targetted at that "halo" area last year, and found lots of minerals. Furthermore, look carefully at the results from last year's drill hole 398 -- it found good concentrations of minerals above and below the small red zone, but not much inside it.
Certainly Copper Fox believes, and I heartily agree, that there is a huge deep unexplored area of mineralization to the east of the traditional Paramount & Main/Liard zones, and I am confident that the 2011 drill program will be wildly successful. But there may not be any "bullseye" in "Big Red".