RE: Holding the line15 Dec 2021 15:04
Some Permutations:
1) Ground conditions difficult resulting slower progress, lots of precedent in KSZ, last hole encountered some vertical shear rock and water.
2) Mechanical breakdown/supply chain issues.
3a)Improved security/no info leakage, its basically a camp in the desert making it harder to leak info.
3b)Possible only a couple of people have direct sight of cores.
Despite BT saying they'd release positive results immediately, if security is guaranteed (no insider trading) it buys time to analyse and prepare next steps. BT could wait until he declares the results.
4) New (???) casing type causing unforeseen problems.
5) On-going (???) DHEM resulting in more data but slower progress. BT said this was a possibility but it wasn't a first choice
6) Post drill method DHEM but similar problems to previous holes, success rate not great.
BT wants DHEM before releasing results?
7) Its a dud, a lump of iron stone and the guys are desperately looking for any upside, REE, PGE
8) They missed the target (its quite wide but easily done), at that point either abandon drill or make second attempt.
9) Non commercial discovery, contemplating next steps.
10) 50m of massive copper sulphide, smaller NI & PGE - happy days . Nickel would be better but they didn't find much in the last hole (upper part of the proposed feeder system)
11) Its something completely different like IOCG but there would have been indications from the last 50m of previous drill.