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Gold/Mining/Energy : BANDORE
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To: Just G who wrote (1453)2/20/1999 9:04:00 PM
From: E. Charters   of 1692
 
Your bulk sample is nothing like the grab sample to paraphrase Shakespeare. Several hundred tons of a vein is not a random odd bit that would deceive one about the tenor of an ore. BUT it does little to really tell us how far the vein goes with that sort of grade. I have oft seen rich portions of a vein and all too often these jewelry boxes do not go for more than a few feet and then you are back to the ordinary grades. Still ordinary grades of let's say 0.50 ounces would be intriguing. To really develop a gold mine, one needs to drift on the vein for a few 100 metres on several levels. Then you can put a fine point on the grade calculating pencil.

I would say in reflection that they can trench about 100 feet of that vein and get a fair idea of the continuity right where it sits however. A point to ponder too is the association with Tellurides. These rare gold silver and lead minerals are not all that usual but do associate with the ores of Telluride Colorado and Kirkland Lake where high grade mines were common. Gold is not found to combine often in nature but here it was found in a free state by eye and the implication that it was a gold-telluride compound as well. It would be instructive to research the Telluride type veins and find out what the prognosis for those types were. I have suspicion that they were rich but pockety. One technique that Band Ore could employ is to drill from land at a shallow angle down plunge and along strike just to see if they can catch the vein out under the lake. If they could it would establish continuity and buoy their program. Barge drilling is a possibility and not to awfully expensive for later this spring.

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