vfb- hope you do not mind me pasting this -thanks for the lse input
eyepopping grades, worth researching the historic extraction even from pre roman times
how much of those field hoards that turn up periodically in rural britain, may have some genesis in these historic areas-gold torcs, amulets, coinage, nobility adornments, warrior/legionnaire jewellery
Beinn Udlaidh is app 4 km NNW of Cononish and is outside the NP ( National Park )
The vein has been traced for 1,900m
Sampling has returned values up to 383g/t Au & 163g/t Ag
AQ drilling intersected 11.1g/t Au & 167g/t Ag
In additional significant breccia hosted gold-silver mineralisation has been identified with an exploration target of
0.57 and 5.7million tonnes at 1-2 g/t Gold
Arrivain is app 3km NW of Cononish and is outside the NP
Vein outcrop sample returned value of 25.4g/t Au & 16.7g/t Ag
Coire Nan Sionnach is just within the NP and is app 1.5km NNW
Outcrop sample returned value of 51.2g/t Au 7 14.4g/t Ag , 12.9g/t Ag & 7.3g/t Ag , 14.3g/t & 39.8g/t Ag
250m strike ave 2.86g/t Au over 4.4m
Trench 3.5g/t Au & 12g/t Au
Kilbridge is outside the NP and is app 2.3km NW of Cononish
Vein outcrops samples retuned values of 46.2, 28.8, 17.9, 11.5 g/t Au
Boulder samples returned values of 83.5, 62, 51.5, 45.5, 39 g/t Au
16 Veins averaging 11.3g/t Au
15 boulders averaging 24.5g/t Au
Cononish West, Allt Nan Sae, Meall Odhar, Garbh Choirean are all within the NP
Refer to page 12 , figure 4 of 2013 annual report
Not much info available must be part of the 1100 samples that has not yet been released
River Vein , is located outside the NP app 5km NW of Cononish
Rock chip sampling at 164g/t Au
Rock chip sampling up 2.72% Mo
Vein sampling 194.6g/t Au & 200g/t Ag , 103.2g/t Au & 76.6g/t Ag 74.58g/t Au & 20.6g/t Ag
NQ drilling ;
RV01
9.7g/t Au , 13.3g/t Ag , 0.6% Pb , 2.1% Zn at 60m depth
3.5g/t Au , 200g/t Ag , 1.4% Pb , 100ppm Mo , 34g/t Te at 78 m depth
RV02
4.39g/t Au , 200g/t Ag , 1.8% Pb 167ppm Mo , 43g/t Te at 70m depth
Tom a Chro is located outside the NP and is 2km from the River Vein
Vein outcrop 257g/t Au & 118g/t Ag
6 Boulders averaging 88.1g/t Au
Two sets of soil samples suggest a 2km long mineralised structure trending NE-SW parallel to the Cononish deposit 7km away
A stream sediment sample returned 19.9g/t Au