Rig repair continues. For Now. Chris replaced parts on CS4002, then ran in couple thousand feet of drill rod to test system with a load on it. The hydraulic problem persisted, so the hydraulic ram will need to be removed and rebuilt. Estimated down time - one week. But we have plenty of logging to do in the core lab. The Core Lab science crew plugs away at 2042.2 meters of core from Kimama drill hole. This includes high-res photos of each core box (15 megapixel, stored in RAW format for maximum detail), whole round core scanning on the DMT scanner, and lithologic logging into the ICDP Drilling Information System software. In a few weeks we will begin splitting core for archival and working splits, and sampling for whole rock, mineral chemistry, and paleomag. About a dozen people work in the lab, although usually only 5-6 are there at one time.