Off Topic......well sort ofHedge
Slept on it last nite.......BC has given you very sound advice sell a third and ride free with the rest. You'll find that you'll make better informed decisions with your remaining 2/3 position by taking the emotion out of it..... you'll sleep better to.
Rock, come on man....... you're acting like the proverbial " turd in the swimming pool" ;)
Ike, if you're in for a good first mate on that barge let me know......I have good first hand knowledge from many years ago in the oil industry. I'm picturing a roughly 30 ft by 60 ft
Barge with not much draft......we wouldn't want to drag bottom...... I'm also picturing a hydraulic out rigger set up to anchor in that shallow pond. I'll probably need your assistance in setting up the geologic positioning satalite equipment......we wouldn't want to be off target ;)
Another tangent.......
There is no cookie cutter method for exploring these types of structures. The geologists are faced with a daunting task of tracing. In many cases the misses are almost as important as the hits.
A normal quartz gold system follows a roughly linear tear in the Earth's crust where much of the gold suspended in the melted quartz settles back into Earth's crust due to it's dense nature. An oregenic event such as ours almost certainly occurred over a period of a few years, while the magma was still hot and liquid. My model has Mt. Peyton as the main event, and a series of extreme after shocks contributing to the splaying off the main walls of the main fault. This enabled the trapping of the auriferous hydrothermal fluids in the splaying structures.
Unfortunately all of these systems have their own characteristics. Directional forces during the event, as well as what is known as point defects contribute to what can be a very complex and convoluted structure, with many sub fractures also.
For instance strike length on surface could be hundreds of meters in length, may be caused by a footwall tear of only a few meters or visa versa. Of course the down dip does not remain constant and varies both north and south and east to west. A daunting task for any geologists...........hence the necessity of close spaced drill holes.
I like to think of it being akin to the game of Battle Ships. ;)
As Ike likes to say...... only the drill can tell the story.
Enough rambling for now........In short we have one of the best at the helm. Tim and crew are bringing light to this discovery.....one drill hole at a time.
Best longs
S