RE: Hole 10 / tonnage Miningguy,
Just to add a bit of discussion on the drilling program. F10 core visuals look fine, but we need to wait for the assay results. As you said, "if hole 10's assays hold up..." then the results of hole 10 would add some confidence on the continuation of the deposit, at least in that section 4,5,8,9 and 10 shown below.
Hole 10 results are coloured green and yellow as per NR discussions, with yellow being the strongest graphitic overprinting as indicated by the visuals. There's a good chance that the yellow section would yield something around 4%, but this is only a guess. Based on the results we have available, including the visuals for hole 10, one can draw an evelope (the Blue Zone) that may contain grade of approximately 4% and up (holes 5 & 9 have 7.3% and 4.6% respectively). Note that this is just a conceptual model, so there is no claim for accuracy, not until we see hole 10 results, and more.
The objective, at least for this section is to expand the Blue Zone (smaller) to something like the Red Zone (larger). The larger the Red Zone the better for the deposit. So, more "in-fill" holes would be required to show the expansion. Two of such holes would be the one shown in orange. Not sure if the colour will show in the post, hence the first one is the one between hole 10 & 5 going straight down. The second could be from the same location as 10 and directed to the North. Other location and direction could be chosen, but the aim is to expand the Blue Zone. Imagine that you were a geo, how would you do it?
Next step would be some step-out holes, say 100m to the west and east of section 4,5,8,9 &10...and if they stand up to the level of 4% or so, we can have some fun estimating the potential deposit for that cluster of holes.
Hope the above is useful for our discussion. Let me know if you have trouble seeing the picture and colour OK in the post. Sometimes, SH software would exclude the picture.
goldhunter
