Drilling company needs to be fired20 Aug 2018 16:52
“Sharktooth Zone diamond core drill programme and drilling on the first borehole M2-041 commenced 17 April. The programme plans for these holes to reach depths of between 775 and 900 metres.”
If diorite was the expected target, why on earth (no pun intended) did they stop drilling before they reached the diorite target??
I’m no geologist, but I don’t buy this explanation about difficulty in drilling, they knew exactly what they were up against before drillling in this area and were prepared to drill upto 900m, so why stop at 500m when the diorite was not too far to go?
The 2nd hole supposedly has a shallower diorite target, but if they can’t correctly predict where the diorite starts in the first hole what makes them sure where the diorite starts in the 2nd hole?
Also if this is the case why not start your drilling programme on the shallower targets first?