Personally, I'm not entirely sure what to expect from this...

Personally, I'm not entirely sure what to expect from this drilling. While ideally, we all would probably like wide intersections of bonanza grade gold, that may be a bit much to ask from the very first drill holes. A few points to bear in mind:
- epithermal deposits can have highly variable grades over a short distance, meaning the absence of high grades in a core would not prove that they may not be nearby
- many people work in a gold mine without ever seeing visible gold. As far as I know, epithermal deposits can have both visible gold in veins and also disseminated, invisible gold. Therefore I wouldn't read anything into the fact that we haven't seen photos of shiny drill cores.
- remember Oro Verde has found plenty of high-grade rock chips outside the Topacio resource area. We know there is a mineralised epithermal gold system here. The question is is it big enough to keep Newcrest interested.