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>>24390862
Ok when assaying plants, your usually taking about a pound of organics from within the same 1m / 1m area. You can also take the tops off trees from a helicopter. Next the sample is dried and burned down to ash and tested for metal content. There are all manor of tests which can tell how much of a percentage of metal is in each sample and you make a map based on this. Its not the same as a soil sample but its usually something supplemental to an early exploration program. Next question, a grab or chip sample from an outcrop is again considered different than a soil sample. A soil sample program is to find targets for further exploration, usually done when you have deep top soil over bedrock which remote sensing equipment cant penetrate. The map generated from this work allows the geos to figure out where to focus the more expensive trenching or drilling program later on in the projects life cycle. As for bags, any bag will do, but we use standard sand bags for this sort of thing, or just home hardware buckets. Also you want as little organics in the soil sample as possible as they often carry concentrated amounts of metals which will throw the sample off. It also makes the guys life at the assay office easier. Finally yes a few guys can do a line of test holes (1-2km long usually) in a week or two, but your going to to dozens if not hundreds of these holes over a massive area to get a clear picture of whats going on, and it gets hard fast. If your thinking about doing this on your own claims, I suggest consulting a Geotechnical agent first, they can set you up a grid to work from and point out any issues you might run into.

Looks like were seeing things go back up, be nice to see gold start to settle out at 25-26 than juniors and guys like me can work properly. Its such a pain planning work for the future when everything is so volatile.