Aikey old chap stick to your day job! No matter which way you mine an underground resource you are stoping - could be a leading stope, a shrink stope, a cut and fill, a long hole stope, an underhand stope etc- but you are still stoping!!! You can have the longest drill intercept in the world if the drill bit happens to intersect the zone in the optimum orientation - true widths are the criteria.
No narrow vein underground gold mine in Victoria has ever ever ever made money at 2g/t so stop spruiking garbage.
How do you know that good values lie below? I tend to agree with you that the likes of the A1 and Morning Star reefs will continue at depth but only drilling will determine that. Until then throwaway lines like "all I know is that the resource is going to grow at depth" is further testimony that you know absolutely nothing about mining.
Posters such as you are an embarrassment to forums such as these that require intelligent input.
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