teneur métrique

09:25 Nov 8, 2020 

Thank you all so much for your valiant efforts to help me with this one, although I don't feel any of the suggestions really quite gets to the nub of the matter. I think Daryo's suggestion might be the closest, though not actually to do with the fineness of the sampling. As we are talking in some (but NB not all!) cases about core sampling, it could be meaningful if it referred to 'average content over a metre-long sample' — except that when boring through various strata, that would obviously not be a very meaningful measurement.
I think a closer match might be to note that they talk about their drillings in terms of metres — i.e. the depth of each bore × the number of boreholes. Hence it is conceivable that they are referring to 'the average gold content per metre over the total depth of borings performed' (i.e. not for individual boreholes) — that would give a meaningful comparison for the viability of further exploratin, I suppose, although nowhere in the document was it specified how many holes were referred to in each case. I fudged round it in the end and sent a note to the customer.
Under the circumstances, I think it inappropriate to choose any one answer here.

12:12 Oct 15, 2020 

makes sense / fits with the rest of the ST?

20:09 Oct 11, 2020 

disappointed (as far this sentence is concerned) that they have to work with data that is not detailled enough to their taste.

One possible scenario: the results from prospecting are borderline - the margin of error is such that it's not clear if it's worth exploiting or not. If more accurate data were available, it would have been easier to decide.

03:53 Oct 9, 2020 

and for a change it's not "African French" - the term is also found in a university book published by DUNOD
https://www.scribd.com/doc/100203568/Introduction-a-La-Geolo...

It makes perfect sense - once you find samples of the term used in the right context (and interpret them correctly)

You could see " teneurs métriques" as an abbreviation for

concentrations "mesurées par couches horizontales de 1 mètre d'épaisseur"

which is so blindingly obvious for people prospecting as their profession that they simply call it "métrique" instead of using 8 words each time they need the term. (and as usually, their logic is "OUR target audience will understand it - who cares about translators - not our problem" ... )

18:03 Oct 8, 2020 

I agree with Thomas's approach, except that on a hunch I would use the singular in French: teneur de l'ordre du/d'un mètre/kilogramme. This is purely linguistic, however; whether and how this can be applied to drilling remains to be confirmed.

17:47 Oct 8, 2020 

If we take 'métrique' to refer to the 'système décimal de poids et mesures, qui a le mètre et le kilogramme pour unités de base', could we be talking about 'in the order of kilograms'? Would a kg of gold be a meager amount?!

17:44 Oct 8, 2020 

CNRTL would approve 'measurable' as an interpretation, but I cannot understand how that would be a disappointing finding!

16:49 Oct 8, 2020 

Thanks, yes, I did get that — which may explain a lot!

I'm now thinking that maybe 'mètriques' in this usage needs to be taken as simply 'measured'? That would be consistent with certain other uses of 'métrique', as in 'spectromètrique' etc., and could make sense in my context, inasmuch as a lot of the rest of the document is about assumptions, speculation, and inferred results.

16:46 Oct 8, 2020 

Thanks, great idea, and consistent with the many other errors in this document; the term appears twice in all.
Sadly, though, I haven't found any meaningful refs. on the Internet for your suggested collocation either :-(

16:45 Oct 8, 2020 

ref may well be African too? I can't actually access the entire text (as I just found out....).

16:09 Oct 8, 2020 

Just wondered if it could be a typo/autocorrect for étriqué, which can mean "limited" or "modest" in some contexts?

15:48 Oct 8, 2020 

Hi Tony, could it be in comparison to larger teneurs that would be décimetrique or plurimétrique? In this article they compare bancs of various orders of magnitude https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S163107130...

15:18 Oct 8, 2020 

La question apparaît en EN > FR, mais ce serait plutôt le contraire ? Ou simplement FR > FR ?