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Below is a news release from Pediment Explorations about some drill results. I see these types of posting alot. I would really like to be able to understand what the company is talking about. Is the below report great news, good news or just news?
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Pediment drills 89.92 m of 1.04 g/t Au at San Antonio
Pediment Exploration Ltd (C:PEZ)
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Tuesday September 18 2007 - News Release
Mr. Gary Freeman reports
LOS PLANES EXTENDED 200 METRES NORTH; MORE HIGH GRADE INTERCEPTS
Pediment Exploration Ltd. is releasing results from an additional six holes, PLRC9-13 and PLRC-18, part of the continuing 10,000-metre, reverse-circulation drill program at its 100-per-cent-owned San Antonio project in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Holes PLRC-09 to -11 extended the Los Planes zone to the north. Holes PLRC-12, -13 and -18, were drilled on section N39750, which contains previously reported hole PLRC-05. All holes reported positive gold-grade intervals and three of the holes bottomed in mineralization.
Drill plan:
http://www.pedimentexploration.com/i/pdf/sep182007_SA_NR_Plan.pdfNorthern Los Planes area PLRC-09 is located 100 metres north of hole LCDD-20, which is, in turn, located 50 metres east of previously reported reverse-circulation hole PLRC-07 which cut 84.12 metres of 3.79 grams of gold per tonne. Hole PLRC-09 intersected 81.38 metres at 2.02 grams of gold per tonne, including the higher-grade interval of 20.42 metres at 5.43 grams of gold per tonne. This hole bottomed in mineralization.
PLRC-11 was drilled vertically on the same pad as hole LCDD-20, 50 metres east of hole PLRC-07 and intersected three separate mineralized intervals for a cumulative total of 114 metres containing a weighed average grade of 0.8 gram of gold per tonne. The deepest intersection of 36.58 metres grading 0.98 gram per tonne gold extended to the bottom of the hole.
PLRC-10 is the northernmost hole completed at Los Planes, 100 metres north of hole PLRC-09 or 200 metres north of the line of hole PLRC-07. Hole PLRC-10 intersected 13.72 metres of 1.41 grams of gold per tonne, thus extending mineralization 200 metres north from hole PLRC-07. (See the last section of the press release for further detail on this area.)
PLRC-08, collared 350 metres north of hole PLRC-07 was attempted before sufficient drill casing was delivered to site, was ended in pediment cover and will be redrilled later.
Cross section -- line 8600 East (looking west):
http://www.pedimentexploration.com/i/pdf/sep182007_SA_NR_Section_E98600.pdfSection N39750 and eastern extension of the Los Planes zone
PLRC-13 is the easternmost hole drilled on section N39750, located 100 metres east of holes PLRC-06 and PLRC-12. Hole PLRC-13 is located on the hangingwall of a postmineral, north-northwest-trending fault. The fault drops the mineralized zone on its eastern side, thus creating a repetition of the west-dipping mineralized body. This hole cut 41.15 metres of 0.91 gram of gold per tonne of mostly oxide material.
PLRC-12 was drilled vertically on the same pad as PLRC-06 which was drilled with a dip of minus 50 degrees to the east and ended prematurely due to technical problem. PLRC-12 successfully tested the complete mineralized body intersecting 33.53 metres of 2.68 grams per tonne gold, including 7.62 metres of 8.77 grams per tonne gold.
Hole PLRC-18 was drilled vertically on the same pad of previously reported hole PLRC-05 which was drilled with a dip of minus 50 degrees to the east. The latter has produced some of the best results at the Los Planes zone and the objective of hole PLRC-18 was to test the mineralization down-dip from hole PLRC-05. Hole PLRC-18 intersected 89.92 metres of 1.05 grams per tonne gold, including a high-grade interval of 7.62 metres of 5.55 grams per tonne gold. This hole also bottomed in mineralization.
Cross section -- line 9750 North (looking north):
http://www.pedimentexploration.com/i/pdf/sep182007_Section_N39750.pdf DETAILED DRILL RESULTS
From To Length Au
Drill hole (m) (m) (m) (g/t)
PLRC-09 155.7500 237.1300 81.38 2.023
including 184.7100 205.1300 20.42 5.428
PLRC-10 241.7100 255.4200 13.72 1.407
PLRC-11 100.8900 166.4200 65.53 0.719
and 172.5200 184.7100 12.19 0.659
and 207.5700 244.1400 36.58 0.983
PLRC-12 78.3300 111.8600 33.53 2.679
including 79.8576 87.4776 7.62 8.765
PLRC-13 66.1400 107.2900 41.15 0.914
including 73.7600 79.8600 6.10 1.863
PLRC-18 172.8200 262.7400 89.92 1.045
including 195.6800 203.3000 7.62 5.554
Discussion
Holes PLRC-09 to -11 have extended the Los Planes gold zone for a further 200 metres to the north. PLRC-09 was particularly strong with 81.38 metres at 2.02 grams of gold per tonne, while hole PLRC-10 contained a narrower intercept of 13.72 metres at 1.41 grams of gold per tonne. Based on the narrow interval in hole PLRC-10 and deepening of the zone, Pediment Exploration's geologists have reinterpreted the strike of the Los Planes mineralized zone from north-south to north-northeast, dipping to the northwest. Additionally, hole PLRC-10 is interpreted to be within a small down-dropped block between basin faults with northwest trends. These faults define a small Pliocene basin with sand and gravel fill. Pediment continues to explore the eastern side of this fault in order to test the oxidized gold mineralized zone to the east. The 37 holes drilled to date have not yet discovered the lateral limits of the Los Planes gold mineralized zone.
Oxide mineralized volume has continued to increase with an irregular oxidation boundary averaging nearly 100 meters depth. Many prior reverse-circulation and core drill holes show good intervals of oxidized gold mineralization including PLRC-13 located east of the basin fault. The growing oxide resource will be important in developing a heap leach gold deposit.
Vice-president, exploration, Mel Herdrick, MSc, is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, and has approved the information contained in this release. The project is supervised Pedro Teran, MSc, who maintains the quality assurance and quality control program, including regular insertion of blank and standard assay verification samples. Sampling and assaying is conducted by ALS Chemex. Sample prep is done at its facility in Hermosillo and then sent to be assayed at the Chemex facility in North Vancouver, B.C. Analyses are performed for gold by fire assay with AA finish, with overlimit (plus-10 grams per tonne gold) samples reassayed by fire assay with a gravimetric finish.
© 2007 Canjex Publishing Ltd.