1) With many #Uranium Explorers now actively drilling in #Canada's #AthabascaBasin⛏️ perhaps it's time⏳ for a thread on how to interpret drill data coming soon🔜 in news releases.📰 Misunderstanding data can lead to premature exit... selling when ya shoulda been buying.🛒 🥴

2) #Uranium explorers drill rock core samples looking for signs of #U3O8 bearing ore.🧐 Rarely do they ever hit high-grade on first few attempts.😟 Geologists first look for visual signs in the core samples... here's description from pre-discovery 2013 drilling at Arrow (Rook 1):
3) Visual inspection of core samples is just 1 of many steps taken to see if they found #uranium. Presence of radioactivity is best indicator so all cores are scanned with an instrument called a Hand-held Scintillometer to produce "Scint" CPS tables for cores from each hole.🌡️
4) After an exploration hole has been drilled & all core samples recovered, an instrument called a Downhole Gamma Probe is lowered to the bottom & recovered, constantly measuring #uranium radioactivity in a 360 degree sweep to produce a complete Gamma Log Profile for each hole.✍️
5) Here's the Gamma Log Profile for Fission #Uranium $FCU's world-record drill hole PLS17-METC that contained a continuous 30-storey tall set of high-grade U core sections, 108m at Average Grade of 8.46% #U3O8. Best mineralized hole drilled worldwide for any mined metal in 2018🏆
6) Boxes of #uranium cores are then shipped off to a lab where they are assayed to determine exact % Grade #U3O8 (& other minerals like #Gold) in 1/2 metre intervals. This leads to a month or 2 of waiting by investors to see actual grades. Tables are then published for each hole.
7) Other data often provided includes Maps & overlays of surface and airborne survey data, or perhaps most valuable are Cross Section Views that show angles of drill holes along a survey line & geologic interpretation around the #uranium bearing ore, used to build 3D models.🧩
8) If you want to explore & browse these types of #Uranium exploration data, best bet is to visit the Fission #Uranium website, as they are the only explorer/developer that publishes full data publicly for every hole they've ever drilled at PLS. 📄⛏️ Great research resource.📚🧐
9) To get ahead of the herd🦬 you can use Scint & Assay tables for hundreds of #Uranium drill holes published by Fission to learn how to estimate #U3O8 Grades from initial Scint data in news releases🧮 before associated Assays are released weeks later.👍 https://t.co/WlOfrWX8Mr
10) Some #Uranium Explorers don't want to wait weeks or months for lab to Assay their cores so you sometimes will see "Grade % eU3O8" published. In this case, downhole Gamma probe is specially calibrated to convert its Gamma Log Profile directly into equivalent % Grade #U3O8.⛏️
11) Drill seasons for #Uranium explorers & developers are my favourite times of the year😃 full of anticipation & high hopes for #U3O8 mineralized drill cores and new discoveries⛏️ that can send share prices rocketing🚀 or not☹️ as investors try to decipher news.👨‍💻 Good luck!☘️💰

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"MLs" do support the proletariat of Xinjiang & have the whole time. People like @Tursunali_7 & @GulnarNorthwest (and many others) who show the world the real Xinjiang via their everyday videos.

Shopkeepers like in this video below say

"Pompeo, we Xinjiang people hate you."


Or everyday working people like Zaynura Namatqari, who speak out against vicious & disgusting US lies and accusations about


.@qiaocollective have a brilliant thread of everyday proletarian Uyghurs speaking out against the harassment they face from the US and their paid


'Uyghur proletariat' looks like this:


Not like this: (photo from a pro Islamist separatist protest in Turkey in 2017)

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Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?

A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:


2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to

- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal

3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:

Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.

Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.

4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?

To get clarity.

You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.

It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.

5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”

Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.