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To: seventh_son who wrote (259)	9/26/2005 4:29:43 PM
From: seventh_son	Respond to of 1016

Some interpretation on the latest ruby deposit: (1) We know that TGX collected one tonne of talus material, the first 100 kg of which contained a large amount of gem quality, larger stones. (2) The deposit is open in three directions. Definition of talus: hyperdictionary: A sloping mass of rocks at the base of a cliff. biology-online.org: A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice. Here is an example of a picture of talus (not related to TGX) maps.unomaha.edu So from all this, one must conclude that the contact between the anorthosite and ultramafic rock is exposed on a vertical face of rock (perhaps not even very high), the sides of which likely slope outwards from the face. Ruby-bearing material has fallen to the ground from the exposed face. The three option directions for the deposit would be into the cliff, and into the side of the exposed face along strike on both sides but hidden at some point on both sides. I hope that at some point we have a graphical depiction of all these TGX deposits. That would help a lot to understand how they look and what their potential size is. Given the way the mineralization sounds like it is occuring, it could be that there is so much ruby there, it is beyond all belief... Siggartartulik alone sounds like that. They have not even done any drilling and they have nine deposits. How much could drilling find? Maybe there is ruby almost everywhere along these contact zones, and it is merely a matter of finding the spots where the crystallization would be best. If someone can do DeBeers type marketing on ruby (something that has never been done before) and create enough demand, there could be supply of rubies of diamond type scope. Let's just hope that there are large amounts of highest quality stuff -- as I've heard, the market would likely expand to buy all there is available.