Thursday, May 30, 2013

Processed to 3966 feet, moved more core boxes into storage

Today we boxed up 100 ft of rock core, to a depth of 3966 ft.  The drilling issues over the past few days appear to have been entirely rock-related, with clay-rich intervals greatly slowing down the rate of drill bit penetration.  Luckily, today the rocks contained less clay and drilling went more smoothly.  There was one four-foot interval that drilled extremely slowly, but the rest of the rock cut as quickly as before and produced the 100+ ft/day that we became accustomed to at the start of the HQ portion (below 2918 ft) of the hole.

After lunch, we moved 88 more logged boxes out of the rock lab and onto a pallet to be put into storage.  Tomorrow we should have time to move that same number of dry, unlogged boxes into the lab for later logging.  Finally, we'll move processed boxes onto racks to be dried.   

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