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Message: Coarse gold and the tesoro drill core results

Thanks Mikxx, I just looked at the presentation you were referring to of Cosigo. It appears they have in that particular case, what you call a "nugget effect". These types of systems are very hard to get any data on by drilling, for the simple reason, the gold is not consitent throughtout the mineralization. So when drilling in this type of atmosphere, its like shooting in a whole lot of dark and doesn,t really serve any purpose, other than defining structure, gradients and other geology of the deposit. The surest method of trying to grade this type of deposit, is as they did, bulk sample it to get a mining grade. The bigger the bulk sample, the more representative of the deposit, and a more acurate average grade can be established.

The problems with these types of deposits, where the nugget effect is a main characteristic, is that even though you do a large bulk sample size, there is never no guarantee that the gold is going to be consistent through other parts of the deposit, there is too much room for error. It appears they are trying to use a kriging method to show how the rest of the deposit may contain the same grade, but kriging cannot be used in this type of deposit.

In comparison to us, kriging can be used in the Canchete portion of the Tesoro imo, because there is enough historical data to suggest that an average grade over a wide area may be easily established, because of the dissemination and consistency of the veins. However, in the Zona Central portion, its hard to determine if we can use this method at the near surface, because of unclear historic data and what may be the absence of veins at depth in some areas, which seem to contradict the historic evidence. Nevertheless, the correlations of the Quantec can be justifiably used in the Zona Central at depth towards the anomaly, and a kriging method could be assigned there upon getting grades from the high chargeability areas, but this is where we run into trouble, where the drill results suggest that the high chargeability areas are barren of gold mineralization, or at least below .5 g/t at this time. This also is where one of the "impossibilities" occur, an established direct association with gold to the sulphides, and we see no sufficient grades of gold in these high chargeability areas, where historic data suggests otherwise. In systems, where there is a constant relation over a wide area of sulphide to gold, it doesn,t disappear especially at depth, if anything, it should remain constant or increase in relation to each other. IMO, the Quantec images clearly show the classical shapes of copper/gold porphyries, and also distorted porphyry shapes, because of multiple hydrothermal intrusions, building on the outside portions of the original deposit, making the classical teardrop shape become distorted as a result. Nevertheless, you cannot denounce this anyhow, the chargeability signifies mineralization identified by sulphides, in which we know gold accompanies the sulphides.

I am intrigued that you say links are still broken to important info that may bring in investors, and if this is true, it may suggest incompetence on managements part, not to correct this immediately.

IMO

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