"And here's a final thing to chew on - Hypothetically, if I'm a professional geologist with a degree from a reputable geological school, years of hands-on experience in a variety of countries and deposit types, just what is it about Alto de Lipangue that out of the thousands of junior mining companies with allegedly more promising deposits and/or more traditionally documented geological data, brings me and my C.V. to poke around this tiny little company called Medinah Minerals?"
We've covered this ground before Rick. My interest in the ADL stems back to early 2010 in Chile when I was approached to be part of a team undertaking an exploration/drilling programme there. My contact was one of the geologists who had written about ADL previously. As part of my background DD I read up the prospect and was all set to visit, but the project lost momentum over several months and never materialised. I was by this time aware of some of the message boards and could scarcely believe what was passing there as geological/mining commentary and felt inclined to chip in. I'm not a shareholder nor have any interest in being one, but I would like to see some new flesh put on the bones that ACA Howe and others have put to paper and always look in between contracts to see if things have changed or new information has been presented.
I work often with skarns and have been waiting for a report on the geology of the LDM, out of professional interest, to surface for years now; a map, some structural data and interpretation, some decent assays - the sort of thing I knocked out every day at one time and bread and butter to most mining companies who want to publicise their properties. If there are experts on the mountain as you suggest, what do they do all day?
I would be very interested to visit ADL; there is some talk of a potential contract back in Chile this year and I could swing by when in Santiago; I even have an old colleague who lives at the base of the plateau.
MDMN for me is a bit of a soap opera; I check back every so often to see if things have changed, but so far I've been disappointed, particularly as from a presentational/geological point of view it could easily be so much better. It's a salutary lesson for me in how not to communicate with the shareholder base and wider community, especially as juniors can't get good news onto the web fast enough these days.
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