FPRC022, page-3

I'll have a look asap whatsup. I'm interested too.

My recollection is that Forrest was considered to be a gold cap with possible copper beneath. The gold had been discovered by Gleneagle Gold which had the Fortnum mine at the time. GG was looking for gold, nothing else.

RNI's bosses bought Fortnum, Forrest, Morcks etc in early 2012 for both its established gold and potential copper. Within a year (I think) Peter Langworthy had mapped about an 8k long copper-gold prospect from Forrest Gimp to Wodger to Big Billy. The co knew that copper was at Big Billy because of Homestake's accidental discovery in about 1982.

A couple of years after acquiring the tenements, RNI found oxidised copper on the ground at Wodger. It had been brought to the surface and left there as waste by an earlier explorer, maybe GG again. It was from RAB (?) samples. Gold only was the target by that explorer, so any copper found was of no interest.

Back to the chase! My memory tells me that RNI drilled Forrest (Gimp) mainly for its copper potential, so my pending revision is based on that premise. In other words, I was really surprised to read that the hole in question was not multi-assayed; really surprised!