posted on
Jan 10, 2012 07:36PM
These are only the segments reporting above 1g/ton. A without knowledge of the intervening lower grades, it is not possible to determine if the overall density is above or below the cutoff grade for strip mining.
Furthermore, if I recall, some of the early cores were from the edges of the anomalies, to attempt to delineate them (I presume). If so, some of these may represent "minimums", rather then representative samples.