This time it's different... than many other types of drilling targets. The drill cores need to be split and sent off for assay before anyone has a clue as to what they indicate. A driller simply looking at the drill core would not be able to know what the assays will reveal. It is a complex mix of minerals ... UNLESS they can actually see visible gold, which is highly unlikely with a Comus type, secondary process deposit.
There is usually no easy path to a mineral discovery but there is no substitute for highly experienced and successful geological and management teams ... which NV has, especially with Hennigh.
" ... Carlin-type gold deposits are largely replacement bodies with visually subtle alteration dominated by decarbona- tisation of silty carbonate host rocks [1]. In this way, Car- lin-type gold ores can be comprised of about 40 minerals, and the mineralogy is basically the same in most deposits". ...The gold can be invisible to the naked eye ... "... Main controls on mineralisation include high and low-angle faults or folds intersecting with the favourable host rock of the Comus Formation. Characteristic Carlin style alteration is present including decarbonatization, argillization and variable silicification ( Cline et al., 2005). Magnetotelluric (MT) data acquired over the Getchell/ Turquise Ridge deposit show a prominent resistivity low coincident with the known mineralisation ( Figure 4). ..." ,,,".. Carlin-type deposits are sedimentary-hosted gold deposits characterized by submicron ('invisible') gold contained in the arsenical rims of pyrite grains (Cline et al., 2005). The deposit type is named after the Carlin mine, Nevada, the first large deposit of this type discovered in the southwest United States. ... in the Carlin-type deposits of Nevada, USA, gold can be concen- trated up to 10 000 ppm in arsenian pyrite (Muntean et al., 2011;Cline et al., 2005). In addition to gold, pyrite can contain trace elements such as Ag, Cu, Pb, As, Zn, Co, Ni, As, Sb, Se, Te, Hg, Tl, and Bi. ...