Thanks for the great post.

If you add up your numbers for the surface samples taken since 2005, the sum is 60.54, and divide by the 14 samples gives an average of 4.32. Discarding the highest and lowest the 12 samples come to an average of 3.53 ounces per ton. (The 2007 is 17.24 not 17 and 24)

Combine this with Sculpin's very important post of May 13th (11:09 AM) where he notes that samples taken between the veins still had disseminated gold at a concentration of .75 gms per ton, and this area did not register on the Quantec survey.

Thus the early open pit mine will have very, very economic returns over the total area, due to the numerous veins outlined, and good values of the disseminated gold between.

Since the Quantec survey outlined the large anomaly very clearly, since .75 gms doesn't register, using i gram per ton calculation is not realistic. I understand that if everyone thought the anomaly contained an enormous amount, say 10x, no one would pay any attention. However given the anomaly looks like a duck etc. it is not going to be iron and anyone selling in the summer (when the drill cores are in the lab) on the rumor the grades are XYZ ounces is taking a much larger gamble than waiting and having faith in the geophysical and underground workings that are posted above; not that the anomaly may contain 3.53 ounces per ton but probably will be measured in fraction of ounces per ton, and probably the red area in ounces per ton.