Ann: Mount Hope Central New Lode Emerges - 20m @ 4.0% Cu, page-25

Here is the end of hole MHDD099 core - burnt the bit in right at the end of the hole just to make it fun for the guys cutting the drill core in half, but not surprising given the gnarly fault zones higher up the hole meant that water was obviously not getting to the drill bit and the rest is history, its a shame because the ground looks ok right at the end of the hole but I would like to know if the dark looking rock is Amphibolite or some other dark meta-sediemnt. Most of the whiteish-grey silica flooded stuff with chalcopyrite and pyrhhotite/pyrite looks pretty typical Kulthor Style ore.





From the Main Mt Hope long section (remember its a "folded long section on two axis) it looks like the drill pad placement and vertical nature of the mineralisation means that they seem to be having trouble getting drill hole trajectories and spacing right with some holes coming close in to previous pierce points, and some other big gaps in the drill coverage.




Not surprising to see possible ore zone repetitions or offsets in hole MHDD099 as seen in Fig 3 D-D' cross section, shame it doesn't appear to come back up dip and be closer to the surface. Oh well - can't have it all.






The hidden gem for me in this announcement is below, the decent results from Mt Hope North in MHDD021 and the open space along strike to where MHDD054 was drilled, a lot of the previous drilling looks like it drilled over the top of any possible mineralised zones so stepping a few holes back behind the existing drilling might be worthwhile, I can see a green dot on the drill pad for MHDD021 so looks like they will drill another more vertical hole from that pad and test underneath the sulfide intersection in MHDD021 in the future.