Good news. From what I understand,,,they willl ream out the old hole and then drilll from the bottom of that hole in a wagon wheel type pattern to check the extent of the mineralization without having to drill down 800m again. This way the drilling and assays shouldn't take too long.The intriguing part is that the original 800m hole went thru 12m of mineralization...then some host rock and then 2m of mineralization where it ended because of the limitation of the drill. So...nobody knows what lies below...not yet anyway.
The plan is to have the high-performance drill, ream to 800 meters (2,625 feet) at which point, the drill will start coring from the 800 meter depth.
The objective of the first hole will be to deepen the original drill hole SJ-08-21 beyond the two massive sulphide veins that were initially intersected (see Table 1). The original drill rig used in the discovery of these two intercepts was not capable of drilling to lower depths and stopped at the second intercept.