To: hank2010 who wrote (62630 ) 12/30/2008 9:28:28 PM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 78424 The trouble with most companies is they do not drill. They acquire properties, they promote them, they do geochem studies and geofizz and then they forget the prime exploration tool. The drill. They get only so much money and they know if they miss they cannot raise more. So they get addicted to the dangle, and forget to angle. Like a fisherman who will troll with a spoon without a hook. Majors don't drill either, when they don't need to worry about the lack of success. They are addicted to the supposition that what you see is what you will always see. That rock and vein continues in Character as monotonous as granite all the time. The opposite is true and zones appear out of nowhere from the dryest material. The next drill hole can change the whole world. It is hard to tell at any one time what you will see, even if the zones appear unchanging for 1000's of feet. If they ask themselves if they expect ore to continues in that fashion it highlights the missasumption that non ore is fated to do the opposite. Some companies drill with flow thru a fair tad, but they never report lack of success. Can't blame them there. I am not sure rock is material fact. You know it's there anyway. What is the best way to target gold? I think a combo of A horizon geochem, vertical gradient mag, IP (sometimes) mapping by a knowledgeable gold guy which is important, as some geos don't seem to know that mag lows, porphyry, sericite, tension fractures and pillow lavas are NB -- and stripping. I believe stripping finds more gold mines than anything else. That is what found Campbell Red Lake. Wildcat Drill holes across likely mag lows or other structures is a good too. Hud Bay found a lot of gold by drilling mag low patterns established with a Schrade Vertical Variometer. Quartz knife edged Mag. You have to do ground work. Finally when companies walk after drilling 7 holes, I have to say that is as wimpy as it gets. You have to drill about 50 holes to 150 holes to find or not find a gold mine. Not that you will ever know when you miss, but trying is important. I have seen a lot of properties pin cushioned profitably, not just Hemlo where the old timers walked thinking that the zones were cut off by a couple of missed holes. I found stuff by drilling on the opposite strike when holes missed. I wonder if the geologist who stopped had ever heard of a plunge, or a reversal thereof. What Hud Bay established under Kauffman in Manitoba was that saturation prospecting was often successful. They canned Kauffman after he did that and found them seven mines. I am not sure what the problem was. Perhaps too much success breeds jealousy or, accountants cannot add up the results of the expenditures, just the expenditures. EC<:-}