I could be wrong, and I'm certainly no geologist, but it seems to me that the Tesoro area would have to have a large area (i.e. scarn) of mineralized gold down there somewhere in order to have previously "fed" all of those veins in the past. In a sense then I suppose that such a large area of scarn would indeed represent the "other form of mineralization required" that you mentioned.

In essence don't the veins need to ultimately come from a massive source somewhere?, or am I mistaken? Assuming that that is likely the case, one ultimately has to wonder WHAT type of anomaly (size and grade of gold) would be required to support/feed/create such a rich and extensive gold mesothermal system at Tesoro's surface. Is a large anomaly but with lower concentrations of only 0.5gm/ton enough to account for the richness of Tesoro's surface?, or does it require something much more massive?? I wish I knew.

Does anybody know what type of readings were obtained from the gold deposit shown here on this board? Were they similar (i.e. pink/and/or highest readings obtained) to the ones we received for our large anomaly, or were they weaker? (and perhaps as one would expect if the concentration of gold was "only" 0.5 gm/ton of soil)?

In the 43-101 report Quantec did say that the anomalies with the highest current readings were often just below the central corridor, and there seemed to be a direct correlation between the strength of the readings found deeper down below the rich surface and at the same time the readings lit up at the surface where they knew the high gold concentrations existed. Furthermore assays in the past didn't seem to encounter any other metals of significance other than gold. It all seems good to me.

Just more food for thought, FWIW.

My2cents