Vince, your Catan vein numbers are not correct: From House Report-
Catan Vein
The Catan Vein has the greatest extent, horizontally and vertically, on the Caleu property. The Catan Vein is seen in outcrop on the Caleu side of Cerro Robies and on the La Vega side of the ridge on the south. The Catan vein on the north or Caleu side is about 1 meter true thickness and is sub-vertical in attitude. The lowermost adit is at around 1,380m elevation and a recently opened adit on this side is at around 1,430m elevation, while the ridge top and another recently opened adit with internal shaft is at an elevation of 1,527m.
The Catan vein is a sheared and banded multistage quartz vein within the granodiorite of the Andino batholith. The vein appears to have a consistent strike of from 0200 Magnetic to 2650 Magnetic across the ridge, and can be traced down the ridge to the lowermost or South Catcin add, now caved, which has a trend of 0200 Magnetic and an
elevation of 1,070m.
The traverse across the Catan Vein from north to south strongly suggests the continuity of the vein, this needs to be confirmed by trenching or by drilling. The tenor or grade of the vein material could only be tested at two or three locations and there was limited opportunity to adequately sample the vein in situ over it's full extent. The adits on the vein observed on the way down the ridge, were the Alta or Vieja Catcin near the ridge top, and the Catan Matancilia Veta at around 1,400m elevation where arsenopyhte was observed in the vuggy quartz. Further down hill EJ Pulmon vein at 1,378m was seen, lower down Los Canellos adit was entered and the vein sampled underground across 1.2 meter true width in a recent inze sunk on the vein. At the Catan Piringa location at 1,255m elevation the adit was caved but stockpiles of clear quartz vein material could be seen. The vein was again seen at 1,211 m elevation beside a caved adit, where the stockpiles were of crystalline quartzmth plentiful oxidised sulphides, and the strike could be inferred from the collapse features of the adit to be 01511 Magnetic. The South Catan adit is at 1,050m elevation, the adit is caved but the strike of the collapse feature is 01 00 Magnetic.
Examination of the vein at several of the open adits shows the vein is sheared and the quartz within the vein is brecciated, the margins are sheared and usually consist of altered, brecciated country rock vath clay and clay gouge predominating. The sheared gouge and clay on the margins of the quartz vein pan be up to 1.0 meter in true thickness, adding to the overall thickness of the vein system as a whole. At most of the showings the contained sulphides have been heavily oxidised, iron oxides after pyrite are commonest, with limonite, goethite and perhaps jarosite as constituents of the clay gouge and brecciated quartz.. Occasionally encrustations of malachite and azurite occur vathin the vein systems where protected from the elements. Samples taken of the Catan vein at locations over its length retumed values ranging from 20 ppb Gold to 2,396 ppb Gold, with anomalous values returned for copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum and mercury.
So Vince, the dimensions would be more like 2800 meters X 1.5 meters X 300 meters. If we assume 10 gram/m^3, this comes out to about 450,000 ounces-very respectible considering it is just one vein. Cheers!
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