Last week, Donner put out drill results showing large massive and semi-massive sulphides from the McLeod Deep Zone.

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The bacteria convert the sulphides to oxides, and the metal flows out with the acid, leaving only the sulphur behind.

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Two of the most persistent, though, are that clay was the catalyst, and that iron and nickel sulphides were the catalysts.

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