this issue was known to JW and others. the extent of this issue...

this issue was known to JW and others. the extent of this issue would have been hard to accurately estimate.

I reiterate my commetns in prior posts. We don't know what JWs assumptions were when he produced his JORC statement. If the assumptions used did not adequately take into account the prior workings then yes - houston - we have a problem (explainable discrepency).

But again how can we critically review JWs JORC when all the assumptions used are not available ....... put another way the prior JORC statement is likely to be completely useless without the accompanying assumptions.

At least the most recent estimation of resources provided the assumptions!

Anyway, we are close to getting an understanding of what Alpha is. It would be nice to see a higher than expected grade for a change (OMG did I just say that!).

Just out of interest I wonder what Regis thinks of the tenement they purchased from A1, you know, the one that JW reported many many ozs of gold within!

GC