Infill Drilling Never Makes Headlines Until It Makes a Mine
Discovery holes get the headlines. A hole that cuts hundreds of meters of gold from surface can move a stock in a morning. The holes that help build a mine typically attract far less attention. They are drilled between holes that already exist, in ground the market thinks it understands, to answer a less exciting but critically important question: is the gold continuous enough to count?That answer can be a major step in turning a historical estimate into a modern resource and, ultimately, giving engineers the confidence to develop a mine plan around it. Moving up that ladder requires more ...