The Future, page-26

"Relevant news is NOVO abandoning plans to sample via large diameter drills and concentrating instead on a 20,000t bulk sample to establish grade."

That drilling was a crazy idea from the start if it went as intended.....

Drilling 17.5 inch dia holes a metre apart? There wasnt going to be much left between the holes?? If that metre was between hole centres, especially. The effect would have been indeed the same as a bulk sample, but slower to achieve and more costly.

GZ