This afternoon, I reread a report from another company that did some copper-silver drilling in Labrador, with results out earlier this month.  Their maiden 2,000-foot program took nearly three months.  However, I know nothing of the nature of that drilling or what number of drills were used, nor do I understand what complications they may have had.  I do know that their program was mothballed for the onset of winter. 

By comparison to Hay Mountain, LBSR is drilling similar lengths.  However, it is in very hard rock.  The first nearly 300 feet is into marbleized breccia.  In other words, solid marble.  Assuming it is skarn below that, it is several hundred feet or more of another form of metamorphic rock of similar hardness. 

My point is that each of the two holes is into around 1,000 feet of very hard rock.  That consumes time and drill bits.

On a related matter, and as the surficial breccia predates what's below it, it acts as a geological cap, concentrating the minerals forming below it and spreading them like a cap on a mushroom.  As photos show, some leaked through the breccia, so we know copper+ exists.  We are only missing volume and grade for now. 

Happy weekend, sports fans. 

VP in AZ (near Barret-Jackson & Phoenix Open)