RE: Blasting light relief.24 Aug 2024 23:21
Having scan read RNS 26/3 but do not understand, or even tried to, all of the figures.
I can answer some of my own queries
The samples, in the main, came from ore which I interpret to be quartz veins, I think.
Sample of local rock, grabbed off the floor, not gold bearing. Can accept that.
We know the gold is, I think, somewhat granular so not seeing it is not a problem. The gold does not appear as veins but as 'specks'. Was the gold 'unseen' in the concentrate? I do not know, would be nice to know.
The assumption that the grades are the general background gold content may be correct, but if it was not visible then the sample may have been chipped from a bonanza area of quartz vein.
There is gold there without a doubt, in my view but like Spikey I have concerns/not fully understanding the grade figures.
Indeed, if sampling from a quartz ore that was exposed then that vein being exposed indicates it was being mined, in the past, which may indicate that it may be a bonanza grade area.
If the RNS figures are truly indicating the background gold content of the quartz veins then good. But wirhout a comparison to a bonanza grade part of the quartz vein, we do not know. Nor do we know the distribution of bonanza grade quartz vein areas within a vein.
To me, there are still some unknowns that with production will become known.
Not a deramper but just trying to have a realistic view of what is claimed.
Shoot my interpretation down, I can accept not knowing everything and anything. I want Alba to succeed by finding gold, as we all do.