Speaking of mode1971, he posted a fair bit about drilling...

Speaking of mode1971, he posted a fair bit about drilling beneath the gossan at Bottletree to find riches.

Well, he should be interested in the upcoming program then.

This is a pertinent section of the 8 April announcement:

Testing of Copper Gossans to the South

The two CEI-funded drill holes will also test an east-west trending copper gossan located in the southern part of the Bottletree Prospect area (Fig. 2).

Limited historical reverse-circulation (RC) drilling of the gossan zone to maximum depths of approximately 60 metres demonstrated that the gossan is mineralised below surface but is completely untested at depth.

Moreover, the area also coincides with highly anomalous copper and molybdenum soil geochemistry (Figs. 3 and 4). Several modestly high magnetic anomalies along this east-west copper gossan could represent magnetic pyrrhotite-pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralisation (Fig. 2).

The copper gossan zone is considered to be a second wall-rock porphyry style mineralised zone similar to the “Discovery Outcrop” zone that has been the focus of the Company’s prior drilling programs. This zone could represent a second distal Cu-Au-Mo halo zone surrounding a large, buried porphyry system to the north (i.e. the CEI target area).