Why is JB focused on a near-term test that could quickly fail? He must strongly believe the test will succeed.

He's a good geologist. He would understand the negative arguments, about the gossan, etc., being posted on the other board. If he beleived those arguments why would go ahead with the two hole Hay Mountain strategy, since it would be almost sure to fail? Instead, wouldn't he find something that did not present such a near term possibility of failure?

Of course, I understand that failure of the proposed two holes to hit anything significant would not entirely damn the Hay Mountain thesis, but it would do a great deal of damage to short term prospects, and especially to conjectures about a shallow oxidized zone.