Oct 1 operations

0923 Came out of hole with 2' from yesterday (had shut down without acquiring the last two feet of 5 ft core run).

Core 46 71.5 min coring time

Core 47  Drilled 1 ft in 2nd gear at 2500 engine RPM then changed to 3rd gear at 2100 RPM engine speed.  The first foot took 16 min. and the total drilling time for core was 51 min.

Core 48 coring time 71 min. using 3rd gear after "setting" the core for at the beginning with slower drill rotation.

Core 49 71.5 min. Retrieved core at 1548.

Core 50  drilling time 53.75 min. Retrieve core at 1548.  only recovered ~14".  Discovered broken stroand on core retriever rope which fouled in the crown.  Fixed wire rope and dropped core barrel to go after remaing core at 1710 hrs. Recovered additional 20" of core plus 2" in the shoe.  Core quality continues to be good.

Crossed a series of small faults and picked up ~11-12 degree dip.