Yeah - although grade smearing is a "thing" when there are high grade drill results its just semantics, those offereing tired cliched grade smearing arguments are basically saying if you ignore the assay evidence and remove one assay then the remainder are of a lower grade. Mining does not work that way, they won't exclude that 1m at 898g/T Au from the blasted ore bench and it will go (along with the surrounding volume represented by 27m of 3.97g/T Au) on a dump truck somewhere into a gold mill where a certain % of that gold will be recovered.
Its just maths, if you ignore the Nile valley from Egypt, then Egypt is all a featureless barren desert, the farmers all along the edge of the Nile beg to differ, and their produce is not imaginary, its real and you can measure it, despite the mathematical sophistry involved in excluding one piece of evidence.
Their argument is even further undermined when you consider that if you accept that the remaining 27m intersection does have a grade of 3.97g/T Au, then that is a decent economic intersection of ore grade at that depth in WA. If it was 27m of 0.02g/T Au then yes the accusations of grade smearing would be plausible, but it isn't, so they aren't reasonable arguments because they exclude some of the evidence.
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