Times Star - great article, fills in some of the gaps. It covers September 22, but the writer was also there September 23 - is anybody out there in the B-G area to keep an eye out for a possible Times Star article for the tour the next day? I believe rory17 here was on the tour on the 22nd and possibly also the 23rd.
The Sage Gold sampling at "Golden Spider" or "Golden Extension" (I assume they contracted out the naming to Bill Chornobay at Kodiak, "Mr. Golden") was so intensive that I figure they could have saved time just carting the whole hill off to the assay lab.