Some interesting discussions, no need for anyone to get too strung out by any of it and agree with Orwell on:
"I asked the original question on granite and I don't care if it's dumb. I didn't mean to start a fight, I just don't know. It seems a better use of this forum to engage on interesting technical matters and at least get myself educated on gold mining than have me run around calling "toot toot, train's leaving the station" as we see on so many forums."
I suggested the phone call and it kinda went pear shaped from there in some ways. My take is, it is not an issue and suspect Archie was unaware of the implications of his not wishing to stray outside of reporting protocol. May not have even got a clear sense of what the query was about. No big deal either way IMO.
Clever folk with money and experience are backing Cardinal as well as a few bright sparks on this forum.