MM,Co-O has epithermal veins striking upwards from very deep...

MM,

Co-O has epithermal veins striking upwards from very deep underground via cracks and fissures in the rocks so they take the form of vertical sheets. They are not in the form of seams or reefs.

As the depositions are generated by the deep volcanic-hydrothermal environment the veins are therefore likely to coalesce at depth and for the resulting veins to widen - as has already been seen from the intercepts below level 6.

The whole point of Geoffs conceptual model was to emphasize just how large the resource is likely to turn out over time.

So Great Hamish and the other veins are likely to be stoped lower for many many years and there is no question of them being mined out - they are still only tickling the tops of them!