Aim, the geo you were speaking with is ill informed and is not being quite upfront. If he was a professional geo familiar with the area, then he would have known about all the small copper mines in the area that some have been there for years. Also, he would have commented on Dynacors valuable property and the other local goldmine to the south of us. Also, the :narrow vein" concept is a total myth, with it being constantly busted by not only the St Elias veins, but by the above mentioned other gold mines in proximity. To further, photos of veins on the Tesoro at surface show very appreciable widths, well above minimal mining requirements. Furthermore, there is extensive stock works of veins, of which some penetrate some of the enriched granodiorite, or what is known as the wide DISSEMINATED GOLD ZONES.
I also recall talking to an ex Barrick geo that insisted there was little gold there and that there was no copper mines in that whole area, while documented copper mines show clearly that he was lying, for he supposedly spent years as a geo in that area. It was very blatant for me to see the Barrick geo had an intent by me quickly catching him in several lies.
Here is also an old post of mine below which touches on only 2 of the zones, this comes from past news releases.
wide disseminated gold zones
posted on Jul 25, 2012 12:37PM
Here are 2 from the property that appear open pittable.
Upon receipt of Stage 1 preliminary Titan24 geophysical sections generated in the field, a small trench-sampling program was completed across a geophysical anomaly corresponding to the “structural corridor” in the vicinity of the A4 Vein in Zona Central. Twenty-two 3m-long bulk samples weighing about 30kg each were collected from 3 trenches testing a 100m strike length of the low-resistivity geophysical response. The trenches were aligned perpendicular to the long axis of one distinct low-resistivity anomaly and returned 50 to 1130ppb (1.13g/t) gold across an alteration zone up to 45 meters wide, including economically significant assays of 553 ppb gold across 9 meters (3 samples). The zone tested by trenching is 100 meters long, and further work is required to evaluate the much longer strike length indicated by geophysical responses.
Recent trenching and sampling has shown that there is a subtle and previously unappreciated halo of carbonate alteration up to 40 meters wide associated with the low-resistivity geophysical anomaly adjacent to the C5 Vein at Zona Canchete and adjacent to the A4 Vein at Zona Central, which are separated by a distance of ±700 meters. Halos of carbonate alteration are common in mesothermal gold veins (Atlas of Alteration, G.AC., 1996). Samples of the carbonate-alteration zone (35 three-meter-long channel samples collected to date) are all gold-anomalous (>50 ppb gold), and include intervals (for example, 9 meters of >500 ppb) that are higher grade than the cut-off grade of oxide ore at Yanacocha (Newmont, 2008 year-end annual report).
http://steliasmines.com/projects/peru-projects/tesoro-peru/
