Jim Briscoe is a competent geologist and an honest man. Don't carelessly accept reputation and character destruction attempts you find on this board. Please do a bit of investigation of your own first. Then make up your mind.
There have been many failures in the history of LBSR, but that does not prove either that JB is not a good geologist or that he is dishonest. A history of failure is not necessarily evidence of either. Given the political and economic conditions that have existed for the last few years what Briscoe has been trying to accomplish is challenging, to say the least,
He's to be credited for continuing to seek ways to make LBSR a success. What he's doing now makes sense to me.
However that occurrence of a small amount of very high grade copper mineral was missed in the past, it has now been found. The key question is this: what conditions had to exist to produce that small sample?
Copper in traces is common. But copper in the percentage exhibited by that sample is not. What does it tell us? Certainly, it does not tell us that there exists a commercial ore body at Hay Mountain. But, it does tell us that there may be something worth looking at there. This is another step toward getting money to drill.
If Briscoe had given up, as have most of the frequent posters on this board, that occurrence of high grade mineral would never have been found. It took a lot of walking and sampling to find out exactly where to take a very close look. Apparently, generations of prospectors have walked that same land and never found anything interesting, but Briscoe has. I'm paying attention to that.
