Warning: Amigos, if you don't like specculation, then don't read the following. But if you are looking for a positive distraction from the prolonged blood bath of smallcap miners, then read on.
I just hope SCI asked ALS to measure gold in at least a few representative samples from hole 72 (i.e. the hole drilled into the south anomaly). There may be a pleasant surprise. The evidence of microscopic gold is pretty good: high molybdate at surface (>1 ppm), very high IP conductivity, very little magnetic signature, 230 metres of metamorphosed layers of 0.5-2% sulfides which keep increasing to 377 metres (limit of drill hole), sulfides originating from a deep igneous intrusion which is also a gravity anomaly, the disseminated sulphides include pyrite and pyrrhotite (both are known as possible carriers of microscopic gold), "a high strain shear zone occurs between 239 and 252 metres and hosts a quartz-pyrite-molybdenite vein", plus more. Amigos if you have doubts about microscopic gold in disseminated sulfide deposits, then just Google "carlin gold" or look it up on Wiki. Carlin gold deposits in Nevada are some of the largest gold deposits in the world. Although Broken Hill is not in Nevada, gold is where you find it. Maybe SCI may have found a very large mineralisation which is different to the iron-copper-gold that they were hoping for? Now back to the blood bath amigos.
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