The weathered zone could be patchy but VHG mineralisation is widespread in the fresh gabbro and there's that layer of coarse gold at the base of the weathered zone that the garimpeiros have been mining.
I'm not expecting massive grades in the felsic porphyry at Ema although we could still get some good thick hits. The trench sampling has demonstrated that it is mineralised. The Tres Estados RC is what I'm hanging out for.
They are busy making very sure that SGS get it right. Everything to date has been a partial extraction. We could get some awesome numbers when they manage to succeed with full extraction:
"Commencement of analysis of the drill samples, using BBX proprietary techniques is currently awaiting the finalisation of fine-tuning of the assay methodology by BBX´s consultants in Brazil and Australia. It is envisaged that routine analytical work will commence in January with initial results expected in February-March."
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