"AC drilling means you should be intersected fresh basement"No...

"AC drilling means you should be intersected fresh basement"

No what you intersect is entirely determined by how deep you go and where the bedrock (fresh basement) under begins.

Some indeed many of the holes drilled I could handpass further than that distance as a young bloke...they would have spent more time packing up and moving the drill rig than actually drilling.... the average hole is probably 25m deep.

This was reconnaissance drilling, looking for surface alteration, several of the holes that did go deeper saw much higher levels of Ni and Cu for example.

Im sure if the labs were working on different timeframes i.e. as normal then a few patches may have been tested deeper in this campaign.

But they have the data, they will be back as explained for deeper drilling now some base understanding of what might be found where has been begun.