Minegeo
10 years ago
Totally agree with John. Sub-economic grades and widths so very unlikely this will be followed up any further.

Pity they still have not employed a geologist to explain the difference between stratabound (which this is) and stratiform (which it clearly is not) and write their SEDAR reports correctly !!! Maybe with a geologist on board they might have had better fortune !!!

Pity no assays for fluorspar though.
John Lawson
10 years ago
Thanks Minegeo, for concurring with me.
Having looked through many parts, of the Nenthead system underground, I can confirm what Wallace( then employed as area manager, by the L.L.C.), that fluorspar, is by and large is found in the upper strata.
Where it should be in the G.L. it is absent, yet as Wallace noted it occurs as large casts or Epimorphs, so it must have been there once upon a time.
Curiously, some of these large 'casts' sometimes contain very small fluorite crystals in them.
I think any fluorite reserves, in the West side of the N.P.O. are either in the escarpment or somewhere in the Allenheads system. Henry's vein was being evaluated by British Steel when they pulled out, but it was bedevilled by poor mining techniques, and so was not properly evaluated.
ardtole
9 years ago
Apparently drilling is to resume at nenthead, according to the agm last month.
ardtole
9 years ago
Any sign of drilling starting again at nenthead?
ardtole
9 years ago
Rns released today, drilling is to resume at nenthead once access to lands is resolved.
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