RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Heliostar Intersects 242m Grading 9.06 g/t GoldTry to imagine a piece of plywood, maybe 1/2 inch thick that someone burried underground with a bit sticking out of the ground. Say that is in an east-west plane, inclined to the south at say 80 degrees. You are trying to assess how much plywood there is here so you start drilling it, and logically you would put in north south drill holes as you pierce the plywood deeper and deeper, and you move you drill to the east and west and repeat. This is normal. Heliostar didn't want to know where the vein (plywood) is, they wanted a big sample and to test to see if the vein (plywood) was a single sheet or multiple sheets that with the hole spacing, appeared to be a single sheet. So the set up near the outcropping vein (exposed plywood) and drilled to the west so that once they hit the vein (plywood) they could drill for hundresd of meters to get a really long intercept and see if there was any evidence of offsets, or multiple veins (sheets of plywood).
So the vein is there, and the grades are valid. It's just the length doesn't mean that the vein is that thick. It means the vein is that long.