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Golden Ridge Drilling 2018 in Corebox

I have been messing around with various drillhole, block and resource models for many years. Recently I revisited Corebox as a possible tool for making fast and easy-to-share models of drilling to show people some of the strange ideas that I am capable of forming as a result of my admittedly non-professional but deeply inquisitive modeling efforts.

The first one I have pretty much completed in Corebox is the Williams Zone discovery in 2018 by Golden Ridge Resources (TSX-V: GLDN; OTC: GORIF). It was a real pain to interpolate the grades from the nested intervals. Later I will add notation for the grade bands represented by the intercept colors, and may even adjust them later to see if there is a better way to show what Blady & Co. have and haven't found so far.

The color bands are a far superior way to visualize the intercepts compared to the models that are publicly available on the Corebox website. Later I may try to model other projects in Corebox and perhaps even build a resource shell (which is a premium feature of Corebox). I'm also looking at a number of other solutions for doing something similar including my absolute favorite way to show a deposit (those that are primarily 2-dimensional e.g. veins or stratiform) -- the grade-width plot.

If you would like to have access to manipulate this Corebox model please contact me.


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