Sounds like soil sampling needs to be stopped now and some...

Sounds like soil sampling needs to be stopped now and some drilling done around old workings to give us some sort of baseline expectation; I don't see how Doug wouldn't have done enough research by now to know what is generally left around old mines in his expert area. In oz it's been relatively easy for companies (many companies worth 10s-100s millions subsequently) to do some further exploration or just perform cut backs on old pits and make a fair bit of money given that most old mines were stopped when they became uneconomical at substantially lower gold prices. At the very least those companies have been able to attract investment for that exploration depending on what they say they expect to find e.g. continuation of mineralisation etc