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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I'll bite, Mr. Gray. We can even play by your rather finicky rules.

Let's begin with some of the things you have said about Xinjiang, notably absent from your more recent media appearances, but still present in your blog about your 2014 biking trip.


The following is taken from an ongoing list I keep of people who have been to Xinjiang and written/spoken about their experiences. It is separate from the testimony of detainees and their relatives I also keep. Jerry is on this

Jerry, your article for CGTN, as well as your various Medium pieces, belabor themselves to emphasize the smoothness of your time in Xinjiang. Why did you leave out so many details from your log of your 2014 trip? They seem relevant.

For example, would CGTN not let you speak about Shanshan, the town that evidently disturbed you so much?


Why, pray tell, after noting how kind and hospitable Xinjiang police were to you in 2019 for CGTN—and how you were never told where you could or could not go—would you omit these details?

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