Interesting you post that photo again Mistie.
I've been wondering if AVZ has the shed space at Manono (without doing further construction) to handle the drill cores coming out of four and five drills operating simultaneously. And also, assuming half cores from each hole go to Lubumbashi, where are the other half cores going to be physically stored -warehoused in the meantime (or do they mostly go to Lumbumbashi and get stored there too).
They had to have some half cores available to show BNBT but I doubt they brought them back from Lubumbashi just to display them.
When I was doing a counting exercise on cores in trays on the ground in MLs photos I concluded there wasn't enough space on the visible ground in his photos for all the cores from all the holes we could see (MO18DD003, 6 and 7) as well as all the ones AVZ said were actually on display (those from earlier holes). Of course a subset would have worked.
They also need room to process (split the cores undercover is shed's with drills for longitudinal and cross sectional cutting). No problem with a smaller amount of cores but with cores coming from 5 rigs - maybe? Might need more sheds to work in. Just thinking out loud.
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