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Originally posted by RooBendigo:
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One of the things you learn swinging an 11 inch coil across vast WA spaces is that most ground has no gold. Drilling down 1000 metres at $200 a metre or whatever it costs to hit a possible target maybe 20 metres wide, it seems to me, involves a fair bit of luck and a willingness to spend a lot of money on dry holes before finding where NN and its cousins came up from the mantle, assuming there is no fault or intrusion or fold or something which disappears the stem of the broccoli to who knows where. Or the whole thing is 200 metres away from where you drilled when the budget ran out. Five years down the track the mine reaches that point and finds the answer. Or doesn't.
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