Re: Our "step-out" is actually a "step-down"
Yes, indeed. Seems perfectly logical to me! Not so apparently for some others?
Essentially, Noront has found a "conduit" and are in the process of tracing it as far as they can. This is not original thinking (hoov, in particular, has said as much here), but I think that we can expect further delineation of the shape of the conduit as is known to its current depth of ~970m, adding bulges, twists, and branches. Always *adding* to the known mineralization. Then there's whatever is getting defined even deeper under Eagle 1c.
Some "blue sky": This is just *one* conduit, that happens to be in a vertical orientation, which would make its VTEM/ZTEM signature really pop. Less-than vertical conduits would have a more subtle signature. Anyone want to bet that there is only one Ni/Cu conduit in the RoF?