How real is Real Section IP

This article was inspired by a news item broadcast on the SEGMIN (SEG Minerals Group) news server in mid 2009, alerting subscribers to a publicity release regarding the Zeus IP system. The system had been a topic of discussion earlier in the forum but a lack of information about it had stymied discussion. The publicity was grandly titled The Future of Oyu Tolgoi Exploration – Zeus and included several sections of the kind shown in Figure 1. Geophysicists familiar with CSAMT will have seen a lot of this kind of section and know that they are not an accurate representation of the geology. The thrust of the publicity was that the anomalous zone was real and that the company only had to drill deeper to find more ore. This impression was reinforced by summary figures of the kind shown in Figure 2, suggesting every known deposit was just the tip of a very steep sided iceberg of ore.