NOT's hit changed McFaulds from solely a VMS hydrothermal water deposit-based area to a VMS + MMS magma molten lava area. Franklin's 03 report (with its many spelling mistakes) on the SPQ web site stated that VMS deposits don't usually have Ni due to the dissolution/precipitation chemistry of Ni and water. MMS chemistry has Ni preferentially going from magma to sulfide liquid within the magma, hence becoming concentrated and being deposited on cooling in fissures/ovoids etc. All the anomalies that SPQ and others were drilling since 01 or earlier were aimed at Cu/Zn and diamonds when deBeers was involved. I believe what first excited RN was the chrome find by SPQ as that too is not expected in classic VMS ores. The GSC link I gave a while back is an excellent overview of the worlds MMS deposits. The faults/cracks etal for the magma flows in the Sudbury MMS deposit came from a meteor impact, only one known in the world, but I side with donypee that McF could turn out to be a second meteor hit site, particularly after PRB found cobalt in the soil sampling.

It would be highly unlikely that Eagle 1 is the sole MMS deposit in McF, so sit tight and watch the drilling by some 20 companies now.