This taken from page 9 of the Aug 2011 presentation. The importance of this is that its not a vein, but of the rock blasted out while making the adits. These adits are usually around a meter to 1.8 m, pictures of the C-1 shows them roughly around 1.5m. So, if you are getting this high of a grade of development material, thats excellent, considering you need around one 5th of that for a shaft mine to become economical at todays POG. The C-1 vein around here I believe averaged something like 40cm wide, so the vein grade may have been plus 3 oz,s. But, for all the development material to be sampled, this is indication of how rich the host rock must be in this area also. And this does coincide with the geophysics for that area. There must be numerous veinlets of sulphide/gold, alterating the host rock there to give it this high of grade and set off the Quantec like it does.The same host rock is the country rock and does run to depth through and including the anomaly/s. You can draw a lead connecting to the high chargeability anomaly from the C-1 vein by merely looking at slide 5750 of the geophysics.
Why would Barrick ever give up the couple parcels of land we picked up a couple years ago, that join the Tesoro? And to come to think of it, why was Barrick up on that Plateau anyway with a couple small plots of land?
IMO
Development material
returns average grade of
1.00 oz/t gold.