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Gold/Mining/Energy : Inco-Voisey Bay Nickel [ T.N.V] -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: overbyte who wrote (748)	11/3/1999 1:40:00 PM
From: Terry J. Crebs	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1615

Hi overbyte, Concerning your: << If the feeder-conduit zone at Voisey's Bay seem to be along an east-west trend, why havent they drilled to the west? >> INCO has drilled on trend to the west at the Ashley (or their renamed Makhevinekh) Prospect--intercepted troctolites and mineralization too, but grades were apparently pretty dismal. Best grades at VB are near the Nain-Rae tectonic suture, that's why the Ovoid has much better grades than the Reid Brook (westernmost) or Far Eastern Deeps (eastermost) orebodies. Nickel grades fall off with distance from the suture, especially to the west. A few of us think we know why this is so, too--and therefore, why South Voisey, Okak Bay, and Greenland are barren of VB-style mineralization. The exploration and genetic models at Voisey's Bay are being re-written with this significant and new discovery at Ryan's Pond. This may bode very well for INCO and VBN. Regards, T.