Pretty hard to standardise anything to do with gold mineralisation - there's no industry standard. It's based on my experience working as a geologist on gold mines.
Because you're talking 'parts per million' which is the same as grams per tonne (g/t): 1,000,000 grams = 1 ton, if you start seeing gold in a small sample from a metre of drilling that's a lot more than 1 part per million.
A gram of gold is the size of a pea. A ton of rock is about the size of a dog kennel.
If, for example, they got a gram of gold in the pan from a few scoops out of the sample bag (let's assume 4kg of sample) then that's 1g gold/4,000g sample = 0.00025 = 250g/t
It's unlikely they panned that much gold (that's why I'd love to see pics). Maybe they panned 0.1 grams of gold which is 0.1g gold/4,000g sample = 25g/t
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