Hotmuck:

"If you can't even know the results of the assays until listed how could you even purport to know that you saw VG in the core"

I'm not sure what you mean by the above statement. Are you saying that if the Geologists or the drillers saw visible gold in a drill core they have to keep it a secret until the assay results are out ? Even if they have to, human nature being what it is, they wouldn't.

I was at the Bralorne Mine in BC three years ago and the VP of Exploration showed me a 10" length of beautiful white quartz riddled with gold. It was later assayed at 11 oz. per ton.

But before it was assayed everyone within a 10 miles radius of the mine knew about it...........and kept their fingers crossed that the "Hand of God" had finally come to the Bridge River Valley.

Fred25