That's what I was meant to do.
So this is a thick section.
I think it was 20,
22, 23 meters of
massive sulfide mineralization.
You can see that there's kind of
variable sulfide
quantities throughout there,
but it was also had
significant gold mineralization in
it. And if you kind of take a
close look, you'd already looked at
this.
But the visible gold.
Within, I think, was about
roughly two meters,
probably averaging about
a third of an ounce per
ton, which is extremely, extremely
high-grade material.
I don't know if you can see
that gold in there.
So within those red circles,
let's just...
Towards you.
Tilt it towards me and just keep it
there for a sec.
So that's the exciting stuff
to see.
Well, it's exciting to see, and it's
very rare, even in most gold
deposits, you're not going to
actually see the gold.
It's pretty rare for it to be in
quantities great enough
where it's what we call visible
gold, usually.
It's just identified
based on the
host mineralization or alteration,
and you're
not going know it's there until you
get the analysis back.
So, it's always...
As an exploration geologist, it's
always exciting to see it
in the core.
So in, like,
old-fashioned terms, you'd say it's
struggle.
Yeah.
See you then.
That's going to be the lead part of
the story.
Yeah.
Gold Rush and Taylor Company.
Yeah, I think when we were working
on the reef deposit
back in 2010 I think
the local paper had
an article and the title was,
there's gold up in them there hills.
So how far down
is, how many feet down is that
section we were just looking at,
where'd it go?
Yeah, so I guess I could just kind
of explain.
So the way that you read these core
boxes, you really read them
like a book if they're flipped
this way.
So this represents the top of the
hole. This represents the bottom of
the whole, you know, reading it
left, left to right.
These core blocks are placed in
here by the drillers.
So the drill is drill in 10 foot
intervals. They have 10 foot
tooling. Still drill down 10
feet, pull up the rock.
After each time they pull it
up, for the block.
So that you know where you are in
the hole.
So these are all the depths
in meters going
down.
So this section right here
was roughly.
I don't know.
Roughly 275 to 290
meters down hole.
And so these holes are drilled at an
angle. So that doesn't represent
your vertical depth.
That's just your down hole depth.
I would assume vertically, we're
probably too.
You
maybe 200 to
225 meters
vertically below the surface.
So about 700 feet
down, yeah,
because meter is roughly three feet.
Yeah. So no one's getting a shovel
out. Yeah, right.
No.
No, you're
not even going to get down to
bedrock with a shovel, because it's
ways down there.
Yeah, so this represents the bottom
of that mass of sulfide, kind of
the main, the main mineralization
underlying that you have what
we call the quartz crystal tough
unit, which kind of
shows just kind of
classic, classic alteration
associated with these deposits,
you'll kind of notice that this has
kind of a dark,
almost kind of
your mass of sulfide mineralization
and
as you move down
it
becomes more gray,
you're getting out of that kind of
chloride alteration into your quartz
serosite alteration
which really just kind of means
you're moving further away from that
main kind of mineralized
horizon.
So when you're looking at this
stretch in here, obviously the
color alone when you know what
you're looking for will tell you
this is there you're focused on.
After that is it all
analysis at the lab that's going to
tell you the specifics?
Well, so I
guess the
order of operations, the
flow of work.
So the core comes from the rig.
The drillers bring it at the end of
each shift.
We lay it out here.
We have a number of geotechs that
do different measurements.
They'll convert the blocks.
The drillors are drilling in feet.
We're logging everything in meters.
They'll covert the blocks, they'll
get the meter marks on the core.
They'll do some structural rock
quality measurements, which
we call RQD.
Then the geologist comes
in and we
log it in pretty
finite detail through
the hanging wall into the
mineralized section.
And obviously,
the ore horizon is kind of based on
mineralogy, the minerals that we're
seeing, the appearance of
minerals of economic interest, You
know, so fine.
Sulfide minerals, et cetera.
So we take all those notes
based on what we're seeing.
We decide what needs to be sampled,
which has what we want to see,
you know, what the metal content
of that rock is.
So, I mean, if you noticed up at the
top of what I showed you here, that
core was not even cut in half.
So it's uninteresting rock.
We didn't even send it out for
analysis.
But everything that we're
interested in, We mark
out for sampling,
we take
photos of every
box of core, and it goes
to the core cutters who cut it in
half, and then they sample
it. We send those off to the lab for
analysis.
Mike, I don't know if you want to
get some...