HIGH-GRADE NI-CU-PT-PD-ZN-CR-AU-V-TI DISCOVERIES IN THE "RING OF FIRE"

NI 43-101 Update (September 2012): 11.1 Mt @ 1.68% Ni, 0.87% Cu, 0.89 gpt Pt and 3.09 gpt Pd and 0.18 gpt Au (Proven & Probable Reserves) / 8.9 Mt @ 1.10% Ni, 1.14% Cu, 1.16 gpt Pt and 3.49 gpt Pd and 0.30 gpt Au (Inferred Resource)

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Re: Question for Hoov, Jackie79, Yixter or any other geos

posted on Aug 26, 2009 07:19PM

Noront has stated that they are going to be using directional drilling. There will be 1 borehole (hole 49 might be used). Someone posted this site yesterday and the technology will be something similar to this.

http://www.devico.com/

As for angled holes from the surface. Think of a right angle triangle and then you can use some basic math to get the length of the hole.

e.g. you want a depth of 1000m and an angle of 10 degrees.

tan(10)=?/1000

?=~176

176m being the length of the triangle's base.

Then using pythagoris.

1000^2+176^2=130976

sqrt(130976)=~1441m

So, the hole would be around 1441m long to get to a depth of 1000m with a 10 degree grading.

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