Old geos refer to the diamond drill as “the truth machine”. You can have all the soil samples, outcrop rocks, LIDAR maps, VTEMs and induced polarization studies you want, but, at the end of the day, it is the drill which tells the story. Junior resource companies in Canada can and do drill all year round. Companies actually wait for the ground to freeze and lakes to ice over so they can move drills to inaccessible locations or drill right through the ice and into a lake bottom. But “drilling season” is generally understood to be from as early as March 15 to as late as Halloween. Again, depends on where you are.
Wow, thats a nice introduction to drilling. Great, thanks !