CEO Blog Update from Today:
Black Hawk Exploration Today
March 22nd,2010 CEO Blog Update
I hope you've all read the Friday Press Release, if not here's the Headline as well as Tuesday the 23rd's.....
Black Hawk Exploration's Wholly Owned Subsidiary Successfully Reaches Target Drill Depth
Here is the HEADLINE for Tuesday March 23rd (tomorrows)Press Release - Black Hawk Exploration’s Wholly Owned Subsidiary Announces a Successful Clayton Valley Lithium Brine Exploration Drill Program.
See News for full version of 23rd's early release.
Now I'll leave this up for awhile as well...
I'll share a bit of insight into the 'Drill Week' at Clayton Valley. On Friday the 10th, Boart Longyear mobilized its crew at the sight we had prepared and fired up the rigs to start our search for Lithium. The drills cut through the layers of sediment and alternate clay stratas like butter. We hit salt water at 65 feet and started to take gravel samples for future analysis every 20 feet once we broke our 100 foot mark. Liquid samples were also taken seperately for shipment to the labs upon reaching total depth of our drilling. At 420 feet we hit our first road block when the 40 feet of casing at the top of the hole seperated. the water pressure was excellent and we flowed at 80 ppm. The casing seperation required us to shut down the drill, remove the 420 feet of drill rod and reseal the casing. Thank goodness we had the crack crew from Longyear because this is where most wells are lost. A decision was made to extend the casing to 60 feet and pour a 14 bag mud collar(a special concrete) to act as a dam and restore well pressure. 14 bags didn't work so another 15 bag mix was poured downhole. Not enough, and we were out of mud and the sun was setting. Longyear contacted another BL crew in the area and by sunrise another load of mud magically appeared. Another set went down the hole and we were back in business sampling every 20 feet. At 480 feet we ran into another road block and the drill bit packed up. Once again we pulled all the drill rod (480 FT)and unplugged the drill bit rollers and bearings. We pulled gravel samples and E.L. (Buster)Hunsaker advised us we were approaching bedrock...our target. We could have stopped there as we had more then enough data, but the 'Boart Boys' and Busters comment was 'let's do it'. 40 feet later we had hit bottom, our final samples retrieved and the hole was called TD(Total Depth).
The Press Releases never tells it all.
