If you look at pictures of Peru there are occasional deposits of coarse salt lying beside the road. Since it is reputed by the locals that there has not been any rainfall on Tesoro for the last 25-30 years one can conclude that the salt deposits resulted from pyroclastic surges millions of years ago, and any water that initially was deposited has long vanished. Thus Murray was correct in that statement.

Sculpin wrote that the sulphides greatly influence the geophysical results that have been reported. While iron and gold (along with silver. copper, lead, moly etc) can occur and are highly conductive, gold can be found with arsenic and sulfides without any iron whatsoever. The old SLI records that were tested for trace elements found very low concentrations of various metals and a small amount of copper is not enough to make any sense that the anomaly would contain copper when only gold samples with sulfides have turned up everywhere including the old deep shaft and the underground workings that have been extended by Lori.

In an old post there is a mathematical model that is called Bayes Classifier that explains the maximum likelihood or probability of a conclusion based on a number of independent factors. For practical purposes it means if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like a duck it probably is not an ostrich. So we have a high mathematical probability that the anomaly contains gold and sulphides.

In addition, referring to another subject, old posts by Sculpin and Hog have referred to "Kriging" and this technique has aided in our understanding how the old method of drilling many holes in a grid to prove up a resource is time consuming and very expensive. Krig devised a method of interpolating data by drilling the fewest number of holes in a grid from a known point and his method gives a prediction that is accepted by interested parties such as China financing a property rather than demanding the minor drill a bunch more costly holes.

These factors all aid in our belief that this anomaly is extrordinary, has easy access and that we have a huge wheelbarrow of facts that are convincing to me that Lori has indeed arrived!