quakes99 wrote: Thanks LL.
In the past Ross has published other survey data on the Fission website: radon in water/ice, radon in soil, ground resistivity, etc. I expect that the 2D seismic marine survey will also be published as an image with map overlay... or probably better as a rotating 3D animation that shows the underground structures detected in that survey. After all, this will be one of the first times 2D marine seismics have been used to perform a CT scan of a shallow U3O8 deposit. The results could be quite revealing... or not. Depends a lot on the survey platform used, the sound source and receiver sensitivity and orientation, and how well they can tune the time-varying gain to compensate for the very shallow water depths. If they do get it right then it should be quite the data set, imho.
That's one thing that Fission does that no other explorer does... they publish almost ALL the data collected in surveys and for every single drill hole. They have been completely transparent in providing investors and shareholders direct access to the complete Scint tables, Assay tables, downhole Gamma probe profiles, Cross-Section views for each hole and survey line. No one else does that. Instead, companies like NexGen only release partial data for a few select holes in carefully crafted news releases... leaving shareholders with huge data gaps to contend with. They cherry pick the data and just provide the absolute minimum necessary to support their statements in their news releases. No Corebox 3D models... nada.
As to the deep hits beneath Triple R, indicating the potential for another Arrow-like discovery zone underneath the high-grade R780E core, I see it as a "later on" exploration project rather than one with a short term priority. As David Talbot says... it is "intriguing". However, the costs and time frames involved in drilling a large number of deep diamond drill core holes will make that exploration work very expensive and time consuming. And for what purpose? We already have a very well defined project heading towards a Pre-Feasibility Study. Attempting to prove out a deep parallel deposit now could be counterproductive.
Instead, it would make more sense to me that Fission defer that work until AFTER an open pit mine has been constructed at PLS. Once all that overburden has been removed, and a pit excavated down to 200m+, then the process of proving up a deeper deposit would be faster, cheaper, and require much shorter drill holes to reach the new region at depth.
I can see them drilling a few more deep holes this winter just to see if they can hit some high grades at depth, especially if they get good data on the 2D seismics to guide them. But I wouldn't expect them to be going all out unless they hit the kinds of grades that NexGen has been hitting at Arrow. Just my own thinking, fwiw.
Looking forward to some Assays heading into post-vacation September.
Good luck to all the longs!
LinkLeisure wrote: Super info thanks. Yeah, I was curious about the 2D seismic marine survey and if they ever release imagerly on those etc....
What do you think about the hits deep below triple R? Now I am curious as to whether they bother to drill deep deep - or just leave that for a time when prices have bounced back.....