GALLERY

2018 Mobilization & Precollar Drilling

Road to the footwall	Clearing area for drill site	Moving dirt...
.... making dust	...and more dust	Digging Mud Pit
Leveling drill site	Roads built site prepped	June 25 - Convoy to Kabba for precollar drilling
Positioning drill on pad	Casing next	and finally drill rods.
Jon Kaufman running the rig...	Factory fresh tungsten carbide hammer bit	Greasing up the new drill bit
Dropping down hole hammer	Removing Tri-Cone bit used to drill first 25' of precollar hole	Set up and drilling
Thar she blows!	Successful drill rod recovered from precollar drilling replaced with casing	Prepping Concrete to seal surface conductor
Pouring concrete into hole	Abundent Fluorite at K-20	Fluorite particles of +200 microns pulled from original slide sample
Apatite vein - (1 cm wide) - indicates proximal location to copper shell	Unidentified 1-millimeter grain from K-20 precollar cuttings

Core boxes headed to Salt Lake	Core boxes	Factory fresh rods
Beautiful morning at Kabba	Monitoring atmospheric condition	K-13 core drilling
Monsoon season in the desert	washing core	Removing the lifter shoe
Fullmoon over K-17	Sunset at K-17	Rich.... Rio Geo
End of another great day	Washing core	Night tripping at K-14
Boxing core	Making connection with hoisting plug	K-15 drill site
Thunderhead over K-15	Removing core from sample tube	K-16 night ops
Diamond coring bit	More red mud	Press for extruding core from tube
Red mud pit ??	Dropping empty PQ sample tube	Handling K-14 core sample
K-14	Maneuvering casing	Fire in the sky
Kabba Mascot	National Drilling mixing mud	Lightening at drill site
Filling up the mud pit.	Core press	Mast up over K-13
UV Light on core