RE: Tweet27 Oct 2025 10:48
LOT13,
Not entirely a waste - the RC set up is great for quick cheap holes for initail drilling, getting metal grades and potential open pit projects.
Diamond drilling produces a continuous cylindrical core of rock, allowing geologists to see the true structure, lithology, alteration, and mineralization in three dimensions - essential both on the dome and the diorite.
Unlike RC drilling, DD cores show veins, textures, grain size, orientation and structural features like foliation or fault zones. Whereas the RC provides only rock chips, which lose structural orientation and fine details.
So both types of drill rig will be hugely important - although arguable more important will be Wishbones ability to decipher the results, decide the next locations (based on the results) and prove their geological model and resources - and tempt a suitor further down the line.