RE: Administration29 Mar 2023 22:13
Bismark, the answer to, "I've no idea why they're not digging up much gold ATM." is in the RNS. For whatever reasons, CAF was completed/stopped before LHS was ready, leaving just two development headings to produce and one of them ran out of grade, leaving the company vulnerable. Development must keep pace with the need to provide the next stope in good time.
Andrew, The resource estimate was as good as you are likely to get from anyone, short of turning the mountain into a pin cushion. That said, veins by their nature, will swell and narrow, become richer and poorer in 3D, often over shorter distances than the drill pattern. For example, at a mine where I once worked, nearly a score of surface boreholes revealed as many different seam conditions. The best efforts of interpretation could not resolve the final truth when mining had started, that all the various conditions where found within 1km of the shafts.
Geology, like medicine, is an imprecise science, but get it right and the patient will recover.
Regards, R.