My latests 'office'

[Richard Flanders]

Thought I'd post a pic or two of my latest office for the summer..... this is absolutely the best job in the world when it's like this.

[Dean Romig]

I guess somebody's gotta do it.... you poor sob

[Richard Flanders]

Thanks Dean... you're too kind... make it Vivaldi's 4-Seasons if you would...

[TARNATION !!!]

I'll see that Vivalidi 4 and raise you a Vintage Islay Single

After shoveling and wheeling dirt all day in too much heat for an old guy, I really needed to see your office. I agree with Dean's eloquent observation.

Hope you don't suffer oxygen deprivation.

Cheers,
Jack

[Richard Flanders]

We had to climb 1000' up a very steep talus-filled gully just to start the traverse in the panorama. The kids thought I was nuts so I made sure I beat them to the top by 10minutes just to show them it's not all that hard. They recovered their egos eventually....

Here's a pic of my drill gear coming up the road to the drill site. The guy who makes these roads is a magician with a Cat....and fearless... It's every bit as steep as it looks. The first Cat in line is hauling a sloop with 10,000# of drill steel in it and next dragged the 11,000# drill up.

[Rod N. Gunn]

Rich - With gold at $1200/oz I assume "bid-nezz" is good... I hope that translates into more Parker money! Please show us the fruits of your summer labor. Hope to see you in Minnesota agian.

[Bruce Day]

So are you looking for veins of bull quartz that might be exposed? And why mountaintops and not slopes?

[Richard Flanders]

We are looking for whatever form of gold may be here. There's already been around 800,000oz of gold taken from the placer deposits and the bonanza source of those from the intrusive cupolas is long long gone so I'm looking for either unroofed intrusives that may have mineralized cupolas or low-grade high tonnage porphyry deposits in the root intrusives. I know I have at least 3 large intrusives that are only partially exposed so it's a decent bet that there may be something left. I'll attach a pic of the company logo I made up from some of the nuggets we mined in early July.

[Bruce Day]

Aha. So the higher on the mountain, the better the chance to be exposed, and you may be able to follow a porphyry rubble trail up the mountain slopes.

[Richard Flanders]

As is said, gold is where you find it, which is not always where you would like it to be. Since we want to find the rocks that are on top of the intrusives we have to be higher than they are. Since they are generally more resistant to erosion than the surrounding rocks they weather positively and create topographic highs... mountains. Thus to find what is above the intrusives, when erosion has removed the rock around them, we have to go high. In one place I have a totally unexposed large intrusive that is only indicated by an air mag anomaly and it's in relatively low country for here. That could be a totally virgin intrusive cupola; if it's mineralized it could be a monster. Pretty exciting. The high ground we're working on in the picture is formed by resistant intrusives and the hornfels shell around them. Not much intrusive is exposed compared to what is indicated by the air mag so it's a great target.... there's also a lot of gold-bearing quartz vein material to be picked up on the ground in places. We had good visible gold in core yesterday. This piece is 2mm across