"...Would like to ask JB if the tours referred to are NEW tours, ones not mentioned in previous communications."

Here is Jim's answer to the question:

"In-field examinations have been made in the past, recently and continue. 

Evaluation by all who take the time to visit with us in the field and review the data and meet with our subcontractors, like geochemist Shea Clark Smith and airborne geophysics specialist Geotech, go away very impressed.  The XRF analyzer methodology we use is similarly successful in combination with the geochem vegetation sampling; this process and technology has been used extensively in Australia for two or more decades. 

There are many new faces in this exploration boom.  We are meeting many new people and gaining accolades by those willing to do the due diligence evaluation work if they are not already familiar with the methodologies.  Such visits are part of the normal sequence of events as potential financial interests go through their due diligence. Many boxes are checked off prior to a field visit and because of the technology and methods we use, questions arise before the more technical checklist can be completed.

Vegetation geochemistry and XRF analyzers seem to be new at least to some of the current crop of explorationists, even though we have used these processes in various forms since at least 1988 with success in porphyry copper, precious metal and uranium definition in the southwest USA, and Alaska. These applications were conceived, designed, tested, and verified by myself, geochemist Shea Clark Smith, and Dr. John M. Guilbert of Porphyry Copper Model fame.  They were tested thoroughly over the Silverbell Caldera porphyry copper systems resulting in at least one hidden porphyry copper. Our system was also used at the Pebble Big Chunk caldera and Pebble porphyry copper system (southwest Alaska), and numerous Carlin style gold targets in Nevada and elsewhere. 

These tools plus ZTEM geophysics are the core tools of our surface studies program.  The ZTEM™ (Z-Axis Tipper Electromagnetic) System was recognized as an important technology by myself and John Guilbert. I remember telling Geotech’s Paolo Berardelli that ZTEM was “the best porphyry copper exploration tool I have ever seen. “[2008] ZTEM studies and our other exploration tools have allowed the definition of a vague geochemical anomaly discovered by Roger Newell circa 1972 from vegetation samples taken as part of his PhD dissertation, to a clearly defined, super-imposed anomaly and multiple “onion-skin” multi-metallic zones indicative of one or more copper porphyrys. 

Newell never pursued the anomaly, but I recognized its importance and have pursued it since 1973.  Now we have the measurement technology that has indicated these anomalies that reveal the type and dimensions (+ 7 miles long and about 4 miles wide) of what may be one of the great porphyry copper ore bodies of the world - the Hay Mountain Porphyry." 

Jim Briscoe 5.31.2018