In relation to how much to drill and what grade is good enough....

In relation to how much to drill and what grade is good enough.

Don’t drill too much and a head grade ex mine of 6g/t will do it.

I Understand from the communal local expertise of both the old timers and then the WMC operators, the way to mine economically at especially MStar but similar mines is to NOT follow typical JORC classic dense drilling as JORC is not designed for nuggetty ore (unless JORC is taken literally as “in the expert geologists view- aka doesn’t have to rely on drilling confidence levels).

At structurally controlled deposits, especially regular repeating structure, each is similar to the last so don’t spend exhorbitant money on wasted and inaccurate drilling (hit or miss a large nugget). These mines rely on some drilling (perhaps only 10 to a structure) to determine relative potential. This is where we get similar results to previously well mineralised shears. It is proven by mining.

So if the next shear below a successful one looks similar with scout drilling then it probably is.

The risk dollars are spent mining not drilling. But they need to mine most of the shear without worrying about daily or weekly results because in nuggetty ore it varies massively day to day and it’s the monthly average that is important.

Sorry but MStar is not a massive homogenous deposit that can be engineered, VIC mines and most high grade structurally controlled mines are mines from wisdom of hindsight and minimisation of drilling. KRUM