Gerardo Del Real: Excellent. When will drilling resume Mario?
Mario Stifano: We're hoping to get drills turning again within the next two weeks. We spent the first couple weeks of the year in 2017, where the geos really went through and really looked at everything we've drilled for the year, and try and understand a little bit of what Alacran is. I mentioned this many times; the biggest deposits in the world are the most complex deposits in the world, they don't fit a textbook style. Everything we're seeing at Alacran, we can tell you, just does not fit a textbook style. I can tell you, nobody, no geologist would have guessed that in the middle of this open pit, we now have another mineralizing event through these CBM veins. We're really trying to understand what's going on here. We spent the first two weeks of the year just going through Alacran, as well as the other targets. South of Alacran, for example, we've been going through all the geophysics that Typhoon is able to generate, it's the proprietary technology that Robert Friedland has, and it's been critical for us here in this district. A kilometer to the south of us, we see a big geochemistry signature. We see the geophysics, and it looks like it's 2-3 times the size of Alacran. Hopefully when we drill, we see another Alacran there. The point here is, Alacran is special but we think there's multiple Alacrans in our district. We think there's multiple porphyries in our district. We're going to aggressively drill all these targets in 2017.
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