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Message: See Cross section of St. Elias in the link library photo gallery

Greaser, I am glad you found this part;

"Note this excerpt "and some geological observations lead us to believe that it may cover more than 1.2 kilometres".Also the vein is located in a shear zone more than 4 m in width in places. "

I was looking for that a few days ago. The importance of it is the width. If we have min eralized widths like that on the Tesoro or wider, this adds greatly to how we could mine this. For instance, you only need a 1.8 meter width to shaft mine, if we had 4 meters like mentioned above, then all rock is mineralized and you are not moving rock for nothing provided it is mineralized to the extent of an economical grade. I also see that there are places where we have multiple gold bearing veins in some dykes, spreading the grade over wider distances and giving it a much better chance of becoming economical. This was verified by a post Mrs C made earlier today.

I also have to jump back to the mention of a strata, by you long ago. I may have misinterpreted what you were saying as the veins having almost horizontal dips, which was not the case, but, the strata you saw in those pictures could have been representing levels/colors of oxidation. If they were, it would be well worth looking at hogs pictures again, if he has them. Because with those pictures, we may be able to establish the depth of the oxidized zone at Acari and compare this with our known oxidized zones at the Tesoro. Also you could use this color/distinction to compare with the colors of the Titan images to better understand the general area where oxidation ends. This point in the stratum is very important to identify whereas its the area on the horizontal where the resitivity levels may be changing, giving us different signatures at depth, even though it could all still be the same mineralization, only different levels of oxidation, giving the different color/s.

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