I have been looking at this model again and was able to see the real value in having this model available. Based on released assays the latest released holes are in blue. With Core Box, one can also set a cut-off grade by moving the sliding scale provided in a side window. So i set 1.01 g/t, some color disappeared from the model. Now looking at the deposit from different angles is the challenge, but if you click and hold the cursor at the ends of the X or Y or Z axis and move things around, you'll get the "swing" of things quickly.
Looking at the model from the top, the blue holes are like a belly button, filling in the space between the high grade resource and intercepts that currently make up the model... until these new holes, the blue ones were released. If you can swing the model so that your view is from directly below the new holes, the belly button made by the new holes is even more pronounced.
Here's the thing IMO, if one looks closer up in side view, the new holes are drilled in a new pattern, aimed at testing the ground between the "resource" high-grade zones, that dip away from each other... with a cut-off set at 1.01 g/t the new and blue holes stay pretty blue. IMO, with this new drilling reported Feb 18, the question I am waiting to have answered, is answered to a small extent already; the porphyry and the region between the high-grade zones is mineralized, as demonstrated in this Feb 18 drilling.. I sense (with no way of knowing) that Osisko has continued this pattern of drilling and will quickly fill in this empty central region of the model with color.
With the strike length of the model/deposit (multi-km), if this pattern of new results continues as well, then this deposit is impressive to be sure IMO. I think the drilling evidence to date suggests several things to me; 1. that the continuity of grade, along a multi-km strike, is demonstrated to be highly consistent, 2. new drilling confirms the presence of shallow, open pit grades between the defined high-grade zones, in the porphyry (?). With a Stanford PhD, Dr. Zweng's evaluation of core to be very similar to Malartic (link) and with the consistency along strike, my confidence is high that the central region will quickly in fill with "color" in the model. Time is close to finding out too IMO.
What I also find impressive is that the Core Box model is from ~83,000 meters of drilling, Osisko will generate more than this amount of assay data this year!
Link to Core Box and I also was able to overlay the drilling locations reported on Google earth images which I have posted HERE.
For discussion purposes only, DYODD, not investment advice of any kind, I hold shares and options for CFO.
