off we go...

Helicoptering today, out to the west to pick up the gravity data that I missed when we had to abort a long traverse 2 years ago. About 2 hours of short hops, a couple of miles between each, taking gravity field measurements.

Weather is nice, overcast with peeks of blue sky, no rain and little wind, 40F. I got a shower Saturday morning (yay) and still feel relatively clean.

Drill is at 172 cm, currently slowly boring through a hard rock or boulder, diagnostics doing well and evolving daily. Making about a meter a day, which bodes well for its brother drill in Spain in a month's time. Today and tomorrow will wind up the drilling, then we break camp at the Trinity site.

(high-five)

Not only is there a gravity anomaly that correlates with the magnetic anomaly, but there's orange clayey soil everywhere... and I found gossan.(iron-bearing rock).

This was virgin, unexplored territory, too... no past visits. I have a large orange plain and a pretty canyon to name :).