Ex. miners are only allowed to report mineral res. after the high cost drilling been done -
the drilling in the best case goes down only to about 3000' -
ex. let say only a few % percent of the mineral - property been drilled? -
still the comp. decide to start a mine -
the experience tells them - the real mineral deposit res. maybe 10-50 times larger -
ex. the drill goes down 3000' but we mine to 25000' depth -
the mineral veins traced from overflight - Hi-tech images shows the veins runs miles - in some directions outside of what been drilled - still not allowed to be incl. in the res. est. -
the drilling tells the value/ton and the res. may be in reality 50 times larger - to a mining pro. with experience - still not allowed to be rep. to public - gov. rules -
larger res. maybe 100 times larger - than what the gov. rules allow - to be reported? -
Miners are risktakers and when the drilling report tells them - we can mine this res. with a profit -
its time to est. the mine - its time to make a profit on the res. drilled - its better to spend the money - to est. the mine infrastructure -
and more drilling can be done later - to expand the mineral res. desposit -
ex. in the old day we eye-balled the mineral vein - followed it day by day - like they done with Cero Rico Mines - for 1000 of years -
well, 500 years from now - Cerro Rico Mine Res. - will still be mined - imo.