See CU Ver .Continuity !! when looking at hole SM 24-02 chart here showing the copper widths and percentage of copper contained in that section and depth starting from surface.
The perfect drill hole if there ever was a perfect hole would show continuity starting @ surface and down through out the drill core to bottom of hole depth ideally which would then have little strip ratio of over burden..
Look here @ SM-24-02
Starting @ 6 m from surface and going down to 10m you have 4m of .61 copper %. The 6m above this would be consider waste addind to strp ratio..
Continuing, from the 10m down to 11.9 depth again waste but then at 11.9 depth down to 26m we see 14.1 m of 4.9 % cu.
PS,. NOTICE when in same meters metion here being from 11.9 to 26m the section from including 18.4 down to 26m was 7m @ 8.15% which was included into the total of section from 11.9m depth down to 26m depth.
Notice next, from 35m down to 37m there is 2m of strip ratio, but then 37m and down to 44.5m GOOD then strip ratio down to 65m..
Between 65m down to 99m still above the 0.39 % cut -off for profit..
| SM24-02 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 0.61 | 0.0 | 3.8 |
| | 11.9 | 26 | 14.1 | 4.90 | 0.0 | 7.0 |
| Including | 18.4 | 26 | 7.6 | 8.15 | 0.0 | 5.9 |
| | 27 | 29 | 2 | 1.08 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| | 30.35 | 32.5 | 2.15 | 1.18 | 0.0 | 1.8 |
| | 33 | 35 | 2 | 3.88 | 0.0 | 4.0 |
| Including | 33 | 34 | 1 | 6.86 | 0.0 | 6.0 |
| | 37 | 40 | 3 | 8.81 | 0.0 | 12.2 |
| Including | 37 | 38 | 1 | 24.40 | 0.0 | 32.0 |
| | 41.5 | 44 | 2.5 | 3.12 | 0.0 | 4.0 |
| Including | 41.5 | 42.5 | 1 | 6.30 | 0.0 | 7.0 |
| | 51 | 55 | 4 | 3.24 | 0.0 | 3.7 |
| Including | 51.85 | 54 | 2.15 | 5.64 | 0.0 | 5.8 |
| | 56 | 65 | 9 | 3.76 | 0.0 | 3.1 |
| Including | 58 | 59.9 | 1.9 | 10.54 | 0.0 | 6.9 |
| and | 63 | 64 | 1 | 2.06 | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| | 66 | 69 | 3 | 0.30 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| | 71 | 73 | 2 | 0.43 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| | 74 | 76 | 2 | 0.49 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| | 80 | 81.5 | 1.5 | 1.12 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| | 85.3 | 86 | 0.7 | 2.35 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| | 92.5 | 93 | 0.5 | 1.75 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
Thomas Ullrich, Chief Executive Officer of Aston Bay,commented:
"Storm continues to deliver impressive results from the delineation drilling program conducted by our partners American West. Long intercepts of high-grade copper mineralization from the surface bode well for potential development at the project. We look forward to more drill results in the coming weeks as we work toward calculating the maiden resource for Storm."
Figure 1: Storm Project team geologists Rachel Borg and Jordan Mathieu review the drill core from metallurgical drill hole SM24-02 (see Table 1 for details).
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