Doc, Thanx but I just read them all. I did mean to say "rock instead of "dirt". All this is a mile from my "point" though. I reread your original post to CC as you suggested and havent changed one small thing in my disagreement with it. This quote sums up what you said, best.
<<,<Aaahh, you're thinking like a hard-rock man: think 'sediments', and nice simple 2D
depositional surfaces, layer after layer, year after year, boring, simple, predictable
(wonderful!!) IMO the first grid has PLENTY holes enough - at least if you are
comfortable with the depositional process involved.>>>>
You are telling CC that BR isn't a hard rock mine, but a placer mine. I find it hard to beleive that CC didn't know the first thing about this, and you had the knowledge to help him through it. I also find it hard to beleive that you did it without using the word placer. I also find it hard to beleive that something with highth, width and length is 2d, unless there is another type of 2d that is ??? Predictable???
My point is that under the surface there are many places for gold to settle. No miner wants to put his tailings on his best deposit, and those first tailings have to go somewhere. Drilling is done for a lot of secondary reasons, but the primary reason is to know where the gold is, and how much. This varies in any placer mine. You need a detailed map of gold, so you know where the rich, deep, weak, fissures packede with gold, and gold hidden under false bedrocks are. How much gold is in the bedrock, and is it worth going for? Is there a best place to start mining?
IPM will never need financing or outside confirmation if they just start mining enough gold. To do that, they need to know where and how much gold there is. All the sedimentologists in the world won't take the place of one driller, ever, in any placer mine.
Sorry for the confusion.
Theo |
