Forrest and Red Bore are two related but different beasts.
Randies are hoping that Forrest is a lens shaped body of metals as sulphides that accumulated near surface, concordant with the host volcanic stratigraphy, i.e. a VMS. Those metals may be sourced from dissolution of the volcanic hosts by super-heated sea water and / or from deeper hydrothermal fluids originating from a magmatic intrusion.
Red Bore mineralisation looks to have been recently re-interpreted. The VMS handle has been dropped and replaced by talk of a sulphide rich breccia pipe. A feeder or a vent if you like, that has its origins from a magmatic intrusion. This is pencil shaped, likely to be formed at depth, and is discordant to the volcanic hosts. Speculating into what is not being said, as I am always want to do, I guess that the near surface profiles, i.e. potential VMS hosts, are gone, as THX are not discussing the pipe as a vector to any potential VMS. Instead they are discussing the pipe as a vector to potentially metal rich bodies formed at depth, likely porphyry style intrusions and hydrothermals. Feeder pipes typically form in clusters in a stockwork zone, so more pipes are also priority targets. However, I believe at this stage, they have mapped just two gossans (mineralisation at surface) on their lease. Plenty of prospectivity, but at $100m I think THX is way over-cooked.
That blurb is in response to the above banter between Shady and John, and IMO, in the case of Forrest, comparisons to deGrussa are relevant, and comparisons with Red Bore are less relevant.
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