RE: NPF Contact6 Sep 2018 01:00
Evening.
I don't recall how many holes/attempts they've made to make the contact before though IIRC they had one at T-Rex which proved to be likely sub-economical at c0.5%.
At 1-2% it's a different matter though of course as having taken on board the cost of getting that far down, you then, in theory, simply have to go sideways to attack what is deemed to be a flat but extremely wide seam of mineralisation which over very/many hundreds of metres (maybe even KMs!) can add up to a whole heap of Copper - somewhat analagous I guess to SOLG's big 1% hit some 700m or so down but horizontal instead of vertical.
Again, IIRC, they kept testing for this deep contact on multiple drills but I'm pretty sure this is the first time they've seen such elevated grades down there so if they can prove those hits are fairly consistent around A4 Dome then it could end up being quite the monster new resource, presumably possibly bigger than T3 when it's all totted up from 200-600m down.
We'll have to keep an eye on what they find in further holes down there along with seeing if hole #8 really is a twin for hole #4's 52m @ 1.5%, yet some 400m apart, which could also imply a lot of copper inbetween them.