Processed to 3006 feet, more core on the way

Today we went back to our core processing routine: We washed, dried, marked, and boxed 88 ft of rock core that was drilled yesterday and last night into this morning.  As of the time of this blog post, at least another 40 feet of core is on its way down the mountain for us to work on tomorrow morning.  This is HQ (2.625" diameter) core, so it is smaller and lighter and generally easier for us to work with.  It also can be drilled more rapidly because the smaller diameter means less rock to cut.  We expect to be very busy processing the core, but as the depth of the hole increases it will take longer to recover the core and send down an empty core tube, which will tend to balance out the faster rate of drilling.