According to the corporate presentation last updated Nov 2009.

During 2009

Drilled

350000 ft 106680 mtrs

66 miles 107 km

to a depth of

Appx 1200ft or 366 mtrs

appx 292 lengths of core.

I guess every section that goes through a quartz section or sulphide intersection must be looked at and when you find a promising section that must segregated and looked at carefully before sending anything to a lab. I don't believe they are sending all lengths of the cores to a lab.

Seems like a lot of drill core and that is just to November 2009 the drills have not stopped. I wonder how long it takes to inspect a single core. I would think more than 1 day and how many people do you put on the job because once you select a piece for the lab it has to be cut in half inspected again and only 1 half goes to the lab.

I am sure that not all of the gold is visible on the outer surface of the core either so the job of finding candidate core for sampling is not easy and would seem to be very labour intensive. Imagine the excitement and the time consumed when they discovered the oo7 I bet every one in management or maybe the whole mine staff had a look at that core adding to the time it takes to process core.

Having said all of this my point is be patient they have a lot news releases on the horizon. Don't let someone else's impatience be your selling decision.

2010 should be a stellar year for San Gold. I know I am looking forward to a good year.