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Message: Possible miss in first set of drill holes on the anomaly?

Been doing some thinking on what may have happened with the first set of drill reults. This is all speculation mind you, but I can see how it could happen. And remember the rumour we heard back awhile ago that Kevin Killam was working with us and even went to the Tesoro for something.

Lets say that the first assays we got are indeed all that we have in those entire holes, now I highly doubt it, but it is a good possibility until we know for sure where we drilled and what the holes assayed.

Lets throw a wrench into those drill hole results. Lets say they are what they are right now and that they will never look any better. Then the question would be asked "how can they be this bad" when the Titan is such a highly developed tool and numerous gold samples from the property would suggest something better. I know if they are that bad, that I will be definitely looking for the reason, because I would know that I wouldn,t be able to depend on Titan,s done on any properties, for any companies again, to do DD with. I would also imagine this will cost Quantec big time with getting new clients, should these tremendous anomalies contain insufficient amounts of gold. What company in their right mind would spend around $500k for the Titan, if it was this unreliable? So, after saying this, I say that I believe in the Titan and its accuracy.

GPS coordinates can be off, as well as any other positioning device. We see here in the provided link, it may be off ~10 meters, and no doubt in some areas , could be off 20 meters.

1) here it states the Garmin GPS unit can be off around 15 m;

http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/

2) here it states the Loran C positioning system (now obselete, I believe) could be off as much as over 400m;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN

3) here it talks a bit about the GIS system and how inaccuracy could cause problems with for ex; trying to calculate the dimensions of deposits;

http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0104/rec-gps.html

http://www.gis.com/content/natural-resources

OK, so you have all that info above and can see how readings from a GPS unit may be off ~20m. I don,t know what mapping system the Titan used, I didn,t bother to look, because it may be irrelevant to what I am trying to get at here. But, I will say that there may be a chance that we missed the anomaly by ~20m in those first holes. This could happen, if the coordinates that Quantec provided in the Tech report were followed, BUT were calculated from maps, rather than right on the property with a synchronized unit of measure. Now I know this will seem unreasonable and unprofessional, but I see how it could be possible to enable us to miss what we were trying to hit, the edge of the anomaly.

When Hog plotted the C-1 adit system to scale on the coresponding Titan image on L5750N, there appeared to be little color signature left outside of the extremeties of the adit itself. This would suggest to me that the accuracy of the size of the anomalies is pretty exact, and I am guessing between a 20-30 meters crust of color on the anomalies , would be your chance of error. In other words, you may be able to drill inside what you think is the anomaly to a tune of 20 m, BUT, you may not hit it because of over exaggeration. Now think of drilling on what you believe is the edge, but you don,t know that you are already missing it by 20 meters, then add on another 20m for error in the GPS,etc , and you can be out 40m.

If this happened, which I have no idea that it did, I could see why our first holes don,t look so great and why Kevin may have had to go to Peru.

I came up with this idea because I had trouble with plotting a couple of results to google earth and recognized what was wrong and corrected it. But maybe to someone not too familiar with the property, they may have plotted them where they thought they went, and could have been off 600m. It had to do with the datum on my part and the UTM coordinates. Also, when looking at the slides, you can notice that the red lines representing veins are not really lining up with the resitivity/structures , like I would expect them to, so maybe they are off 20 m, or whoever plotted them on the images just went roughly ?

So, if we drilled along the west side of the anomaly, I could see it easy to miss if this were the case, if we would have drilled the east side, we would have hit good, IF, all the drill holes were positioned too far west. Without having that drill plan to look at though, we can,t tell exactly what she did, and if, just if, something like I talked about above, happened, she may have been forced sooner, than later to start drilling the heart and work her way out to the edges. I say this, because the rumor was that she was drilling perimeter holes first.

The whole point of this post was to show how mistakes can be made sometimes. I am not saying this happened with us, just merely saying that it may be considered as a possibilty. The whole post may be speculation or it may explain some things in the future, who knows?

Another thing I have to mention here again, was when I was at PDAC last year, I held a half core drill sample that the other half assayed ~200 g/t gold, and you could not see a visible speck of gold in it. What I am trying to say with this line is, that there is still hope that more assays of the first 11 holes may surprise us.

IMO, AS ALWAYS.

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