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To: Herb Duncan who wrote (14038)	6/21/2006 12:48:01 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78416

I worked in one of Norrie's mines in Quebec about 30 years ago. In fact it was the one he died in from a heart attack after a turn on the plugger shaft sinking. This property had practically no surface showing, but it was rich down below. At one mile long the quartz vein had continuous ore grade mineralization, although it did not appear on surface at all. The best surface sample was 0.03 OPT, and the best drill hole of three was 1/10 of an ounce over 3 feet. The vein which I channel sampled for Onaping Resources over its length, was 0.25 OPT pervasively and was 5 feet wide average at a depth of 500 feet. They sank the shaft (I think) on the strength of a 30,000 ton deposit owned by Falconbridge about 6 miles away on strike that had been drilled. Neither that deposit nor the Croinor ever became mines although there were oodles of drill holes put into it later, and much gold found in the economic range. It was partly because the companies that had it never had mine building expertise, nor could they get mill money. At one time they had ten drills working on the property. EC<:-}