Excellent thinking Greaser, I like your perception on this. Even though my opinion at the moment is that we dont need this, you do have me interested in what your saying. Its the thinking outside the box that I value very much. A person can learn a lot from another persons angle on things and it can lead to new perceptions. And one thing I find with geology, theories are forever changing as new tech and info becomes available.

The Titan does go to a depth of 1500m on the Tesoro, at least I was told this. This depth will be revealed in the 3D imagery, at present we can only see about 750 m down on the 2D slides. See, we do have a stratum of approx 50 m as the top layer of the property around the C-1 and A-4 veins. This would be called the oxide layer. This layer could thicken or decrease in thickness over the property depending on geological events. If this layer contained disseminated gold over its entirety, then what you are proposing, may help.

I am not totaly sure of how you are interpreting the gold bearing veins on the Tesoro. They do not lay horizontal, they are more or less verticle. Picture them as a tree, the branches are smaller at the surface and get bigger the further down the tree you go, meanwhile, attaching theirselves to the tree trunk at different intervals.

Now for a full stratum to contain gold away from the conduits (veins), the chances are low. You generally need these intrusions through out the stratum to scatter the gold, hence, a source.Think of 5 different stratum, measuring in aggregate 3km deep a million years ago that contained no gold.Then think of a golden tree that grew from the 3km level to the surface right through the 5 strata, the strata contains gold now,BUT only in the limbs of the tree or very close to the wood.

I hope I am not insulting your intelligence here, that is not my intent. Maybe, I am insulting my own by not understanding what you are saying, I dont know. But if our drills go down to 1500m and our gold grades are higher or stay the same, this will confirm gold down below this depth to the point at which we hit unfavourable gold conditions. This point would be above where the hydro fluids lie, still liquid because of the heat. This point that I mention here would be where your seismic technique would fit in and give us the thickness of the crust at this point. If this point is at 5km, it may mean you could mine down to 3km maximum, for example. You cant go right to the 5km or 4km because of dangerous gases and heat.

You mention another interesting thing that I will expand on a bit. Water in the ground and how it could effect a geophysical. There is very little ground water on the Tesoro, so the effects would be minimal to none on the Titan. What we are seeing in the images are most likely not magnified by the presence of water in the ground.

Having said all that I did, if our gold does remain open at 1500m, I, along with all the other shareholders wont probably care whats below 1500m.