Sculpin, those numbers you use are for sure conservative, and numbers I used at the start, but we can even go further. When you take the volume scaling (68%) plust the scaling we do on the density number (we use 2.5T/M3 instead of 2.7 - 2.75 T/M3) you then get an overall scaling of 71%. So like I've said in the past, you can take that a couple different ways:
- You need 0.29g/T over the entire anomaly
- You need 1g/T over only 29% (just over 1/4) of the anomaly.
- Or any combo of the above 2
I guess also, remember, this is only one anomaly only! Only the oringinal 5000 acres, etc!
Also, there is good info on the home page, under projects, under Tesoro, scroll down and review the section on Trenching. The very short and quick trenching program they did between the Quantec surveys. This is a good review, we always forget about, due to the abundance of information we continually look at.
Here is one point that stands out:
Samples of the carbonate-alteration zone (35 three-meter-long channel samples collected to date) are all gold-anomalous (>50 ppb gold), and include intervals (for example, 9 meters of >500 ppb) that are higher grade than the cut-off grade of oxide ore at Yanacocha (Newmont, 2008 year-end annual report).
