It sounds like the blank cores showed positive results when they should have also been zero and so i would suggest the salted senario would have existed. My guess is that they had difficulty cleaning all the PGM's out of the equipment after they tested our cores and the blanks were salted by the high NOT samples LOL.
That's my dream and I'm sticking to it. Also, on the FNC news... I do remember some form of conspriracy theory that said the NOT purposely drilled shallow on their side in order to have a better negotiating position with FNC. The theory also noted that they would drop their sensors down the shallow hole to see better the sixe of the anomoly in that area.
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