Not too late to get a good start on the critical stuff. Permitting is what you want out of the way as early as possible. That is what I am really hopeful to see because there will also be a plan(s) detailing what they intend to do.
Hard to explain but you have to know what you want before you can work backwards to where step one is going to be. What you want can also be several things too with key points of accomplishment. The trick is where do you want to start? A small operation which could be put together with little or a large operation that could be put together with a lot? Some people don't see a small operation as very profitable and they are right but what they miss looking at is the potential of what it can grow into.
Still waiting on some permitting myself. So of the more critical stuff I am working on with my own projects; this season will only be a few weeks to a month worth of work anyway this year. However, the winter offers the time to set the stage for next year. This year the cost of doing the critical is about 10-15k bare bones including the 5k bond and one hail mary step one is done. Whether or not there is a step two depends on step one. Its not a lot of money and the only way its been possible thus far is an old friend of mine owns a large drill.
I have had some conversations with the guy who engineered the Shaw backpack drill. He is working on a style of drill that will handle the kind of ground I have. It would make exploration for placer/mineral ridiculously inexpensive and may well fit the description of a hand tool. I would love to be able to leave nothing of a environmental footprint to be sure of an area.
it would be more time consuming then cost but the current drills they have may suite the Lucky Ben vein. It would at least offer the potential of exploring the vein via mapping, assay, etc. They could probably do that much with about 15k including the cost of the drill.
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