BOW, you cause more work for me than the bashers do, LOL. Some more excellent points you have here.

I have been looking at the same area as you, only at something different. I looked at Google Earth to try to identify the trend and follow it to get some measurements. We know from your excerpt that the area is 45 meters wide, the alteration zone, so I was able to follow it on Google Earth, to what looks at least 3km, before it gets displaced in the south or submerged. IMO, this alteration joins A-7 and the S-2 Swarm, and most likely continues on north and south, and I am saying it connects with the C-5 in the north, and continues through Chance E in the south. But if we just look at this one area averaging 1 g/t, 40 m wide, 3000m long and 100m deep, we will get around 1 million ounces from this area. BUT, as far as I can tell, no quartz veins are factored in these areas because it would skew the numbers to the upside, and thats what we don,t want at the moment. If we can prove up economical ground WITHOUT using the high grade veins in the equation, the high grade veins become gravy. We should also remember that Dynacor reported a shear zone 4 meters wide assaying between 1-3 g/t, without the vein also, so its not uncommon to get what we ask for here. I should add that there was one section of diorite assayed along this 3km stretch I am talking about that graded over 7 g/t across 2 meters.

The Cactus Zone I touched on last night is probably a part of this alteration zone as well. If anyone figured the average of those 2 veins last night, they should have come up with approx 11 g/t across 3 m, thats not counting if the diorite between these veins is mineralized to the extent of 1 g/t. IF it was mineralized to 1 g/t, that would give that specific area a grade of 12 g/t at surface open pittable. The importance of what I am saying here is; a profitable open pit is around 1~3 g/t today based on metalurgy and a couple other factors. You might say thats proposterous because its a small area, BUT keep in mind that there are very many veins on the Tesoro, and as you expand your surface area, you are bound to keep hitting them, maintaining a constant grade that may be open pitable.

Again, this is only my opinion, do your own figuring, cause I may be wrong.