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On The Curse of Oak Island this week, the team gets a status report on the massive sinkhole that’s developed at H8, as well as an update on what could be off-shore vent locations. But perhaps the most promising development takes place at Smith’s Cove, where the positive results of a dye test could prove the existence of legendary flood tunnels on the island.

- FY-2018 AISC down $25/oz over the prior year to $744/oz, well below the guidance range of $760-810/oz

Using LIDAR technology, the team scan the Oak Island shoreline in the hopes of detecting anything that looks manmade. Their state-of-the-art equipment scans the surrounding waters up to 30 feet beneath the sea bed in a systematic grid pattern that encompasses the island’s coastal area.

If this development proves that there is a strong connection between Smith’s Cove and the Money Pit, it signifies a huge breakthrough for the team this year. Has the team uncovered a direct path to the Money Pit and its fabled treasure vault? Or have they stumbled onto a deadly trap instead?

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Regardless your feelings of “super-Pro Street-modified” racecars with favor-flashing bling from bumper to bumper this Queen Street strip shredder is anything but a pretty face with a lot of makeup. Sure, it’s an M3 coated with more gold-plating than high-temperature engine paint – but there’s much more to this machine than a whole lot of bling. The chromoly tube-chassis replaces any traces of luxury and wraps the driver in a tubular cocoon of safety. The 1,664hp block is force-fed from a gigantic GT60 turbo as a high-pressure fuel system blows out 20-1,600cc injectors to full capacity. It’s a 7.1-second car at 197mph.

As far out as monster trucks look – with their full tube chassis and four-wheel steering – it’s not hard to take a wild guess at the evolutionary steps that brought it to the machine we know it as today. Essentially starting out as a guy wanting to see if he could run over a set of blown out car bodies in a field, the sport feverishly took off with a warm and enthusiastic public reception similar to NASCAR. There was just something transfixing about watching a motor and chassis push around 3,600lbs of rubber. A typical snapshot of the mechanical madness responsible for the “thunder within” takes the form of a 540cid, supercharged race motor; centrally located to balance out the truck and lower the center of gravity. Many of these monsters blow all of that torque through a two-speed Powerglide transmission (heavily-modified, of course).

- The plant throughput is expected to decline as the oxide ore blend is expected to reduce from approximately 80% in 2018 to 60%, with the remainder of the feed comprised of fresh and transitional ore.

- Ore stacked decreased as the quantity of ore mined decreased with lower-grade stockpiles supplementing the stacked feed. Stacking at the heap leach operation ceased in mid-December.

In all honesty, I am still not sure if I like the base design. It certainly looks modern, but it walks the line of being a little busy for my taste. Regardless, I appreciate that Topps tried something new.

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“The two chiefs that we met, Chief Monze among them, said they appreciate His Excellency President Edgar Chagwa Lungu’s effort to take food to our people,  and this government has delivered according to its promise of not leaving anyone behind. In fact, there is a request that we increase the tonnage of the relief food that we are giving. The PF government wants to feed and protect the lives of all Zambians,” Kabwe said.