Re: Vein widths
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Feb 17, 2012 09:25AM
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My geometry is correct. Just think of a vein as a perpendicular wall of quartz that extends vertically to depths of several km,s depending on the type of hydrothermal event that created the vein. This vein, as in the area of the Tesoro, can run conitinuously for km,s on the horizontal plane. So, in essence, you have a wall(the vein) with dimensions of length x height x width(thickness). To place the veins at Tesoro in respect to this, the principle veins there can be many km,s long, km,s deep and range from cm,s to meters in thickness. Although we have narrow veins at the surface, in some cases, these veins are known to widen(thicken) at depth, as is proven while looking at the verticle extents of some of Dynacors veins, up the side of the canyon walls, from roughly an altitude of 600m up to the Tesoro level of ~2200m level.
Pipes (diatremes) although not indicated on the property, are most likely there and are usually present around volcanics. They will most likely be identified at later dates and can play significant roles in mineralization. But, it doesn,t matter if a pipe was being drilled, the Titan can easily pinpoint the location that they can be penetrated anyways, and they can be pierced by a drill.
The fact that is being ignored is that all holes had mineralization in them. As I have said before, it would be a hard job to drill that property and not hit gold. It is too widespread and is present in every structure I have seen info from on the property. You have quartz,pegmatite,dyke,sils,faults,fractures,shears,diorite,granodiorite etc all being mineralized with gold at least in one instance where tested on the property. This in itself says how rich the original source below has to be, to mineralize most of the geological events that happened different times, over time. To give you some idea what I just said in the above 2 sentences, a lot of mining companies only have 1-2 sources of mineralization of gold, mainly their veins and sometimes the host rock is mineralized to an economical degree that it can be mined along with the veins.
As for drilling the veins, they will be pierced at varying degrees off the perpendicular but close to it. Where our veins on the Tesoro are steep dipping, the job of hitting these perpendicular, or even suggesting it, is proposterous when you think of the angle of incline needed to do this from the plane. So, if you can,t hit the veins perpendicular to get true width, you will try to get an angle across the vein, in our case around 30-40 degrees will be hitting it, giving us an exaggerated width of the veins, but more info. It is easy to hit these veins and the Titan makes it that much easier in the sense that sometimes underground, the veins may stray off their surface dip and can change their dips tremendously, the Titan can tell you if this is the case. You would see this type of thing happen more in epthermal events rather than mesothermal, and although this can happen on the Tesoro, the cases should be limited. Think of the Titan as an xray, then imagine an xray of your own body, and how easy that xray would make it for someone to target a certain bone.
You have a typo on your drill core diameter, can be between 2-3 inches. And yes, to find gold by drilling, is like trying to hit a needle in a haystack, but we did it in every hole! So, its saying that gold is running through the portions we have drilled to date, and to hit it with that small of a drill says that its continuous, the grade is needed over longer distances to determine how viable this may be. And without that crucial info, like Zuric put in a post here, no decision on to buy or sell stock should really have been made. Its IMO, that those who sold could be walking away from something that still has every chance of being huge, not enough info has been released yet to make any kind of a solid decision.
On a different note, Kinross,s Fruit Del Norte deposit bought from Aurealian, figured to have ~ 20 million ounces, may not get the permit it needs to move ahead to mine it. So, there is a great deposit/story/find and it may never be mined. If you think of us, our best interests are to prove this up as quickly as we can and pass it off to a major eliminating any and all risk that could come in the future with permitting, mining or even political. Its no time to drag our feet, and its good to see that Lori has realized this and has ramped up exploration.
IMO.