Tiburn23 Aug 2019 11:29
Hi Tiburn,
I was on the train on my phone yesterday when trying to show my calculations so it didn't look great.
Jonathon Guy apparently used the following figures and said it was a cylindrical shape
300m across and 800m deep (from 400 to 1200)
So if we take it very simplistically then volume of a cylinder is pr²h or 3.14 * 150² * 800 = 56,520,000m³
Now if I use the soil conversion factor that GGP used originally - 650,000,000 / 240,000,000 = 2.7
56,520,000mÂł * 2.7 = 152,604,000 tonnes of ore
Assume 2g/t - 152,604,000 x 2 = 305,208,000 grams
31.1035grams per troy ounce
305,208,000 grams / 31.1035 = 9,812,657 troy ounces.
Very simplistic but seems to me that they are erring very much on the side of caution.
GLA - Paddy