Originally posted by 82Punter
Originally posted by elphamale
@HAC30 ,
@binwood et al,
My sincere apologies for using too many catchphrases in one hit to emphasize the scale and quality of AVZ's Manono project, even if they were created by astute people (eg. Chinese Minister for Mines) who have the capacity to observe this freak of nature from afar and describe it for what it truly is.
I'll just stick to using diagrams from now on. clear.png
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You can lead a horse to water.....
GLTA
Cheers
Elpha
Pretty sure no one on here has said that AVZ is not a huge deposit.
Also pretty sure that no one on here, apart from down rampers, are trying to compare 4CE to AVZ at the moment.
However, when looking at the hard rock lithium peers in the table you posted, the grade that 4CE has produced in its initial exploratory drilling program is not bad. By all means, it's not up with the top end, but it's also not the worst on that list.
Lets see what the balance of the drilling program produces and then make an assessment as to where the best mineralisation exists for 4CE to build up a resource.
We're in early days here and there's a way to go...
No I copped the same flack when I said the auger drill results were poor for Kanuka at 3-4c. Seb93 and a few others told me I was downramping and didn't know what I was talking about.
The thing you have to consider is that transport costs alone from DRC are nearly as much as some other HR projects entire opex. This means mining has to be bloody cheap. You start dropping grades to "average" rather than "outstanding" and any kind of strip ratio past 2:1 and things are going to get tough. It's just the geographical reality in my opinion