We would love to hear your thoughts about our site and services, please take our survey here.
London South East prides itself on its community spirit, and in order to keep the chat section problem free, we ask all members to follow these simple rules. In these rules, we refer to ourselves as "we", "us", "our". The user of the website is referred to as "you" and "your".
By posting on our share chat boards you are agreeing to the following:
The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. As a user you agree to any information you have entered being stored in a database. You agree that we have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic or board at any time should we see fit. You agree that we have the right to remove any post without notice. You agree that we have the right to suspend your account without notice.
Please note some users may not behave properly and may post content that is misleading, untrue or offensive.
It is not possible for us to fully monitor all content all of the time but where we have actually received notice of any content that is potentially misleading, untrue, offensive, unlawful, infringes third party rights or is potentially in breach of these terms and conditions, then we will review such content, decide whether to remove it from this website and act accordingly.
Premium Members are members that have a premium subscription with London South East. You can subscribe here.
London South East does not endorse such members, and posts should not be construed as advice and represent the opinions of the authors, not those of London South East Ltd, or its affiliates.
Let's compromise, how's about doing all three from each and every hole south beyond the sand dune?
First hole back toward the Havieron bullseye, second from the same spot straight down looking for a suitable sterile spot for the decline and then a third hole again from the same spot going south-west toward the magnetic anomoly that stretches out from Scallywag.
PG, thanks for "the white box is the JV" clarification and including the surface colours. All the spurious "lights in the night" since Nov 19 onwards are all within the JV - so Newcrest must've had a reason to go and drill them all.
One other note - the magnetic anomoly stretching north to our nearest neighbours is a lot less pronounced than in other maps that have been published.
And thanks to all for keeping the board on the straight and narrow this weekend. It has been suffering of late with too much dross to wade through to find the useful, educational and well thought out contributions.
Paddy
..they could in theory be targeting a different (as yet unnamed) target.
I’m fairly convinced that you’re correct. I’m certainly no genius in this field, but the clues appear to be there. As has been stated, drilling is an expensive undertaking and these guys are not doing it by guesswork. Looking at the images (and thank you for those), one can see that they have more pieces of the puzzle than they are revealing, for now anyway. The more I’ve listened to GH being interviewed I get the distinct feeling he’s trying so hard to hold back his excitement. Not your normal AIM company team here, no sir!
Unfortunately I didn’t arrive until circa 8p, but I’ve committed a sizeable chunk of my cash. I’ve been investing in AIM companies since 2008, but I’ve not seen one like this, or run like this. Nothing goes up in a straight line folks, but this may well be a little straighter than most. I’m enjoying the ride, the profit and reading some great posts.
Thanks all.
SG900
We may no know where these holes are aimed and what they are going to do with them (yet). But, and this is a big but, we do know they are there. We do know there are fair number of them. We do know that they aren't exactly cheap.
We can infer that there has to be a good reason to a) start drilling there and b) continue drilling there. There has to be something interesting enough to expend the time, energy, and cash to drill in this way.
My hands are getting a little numb!
Paddy - Many thanks for the clarification. I guess that we all now know for sure that the pads to the SW of the Havieron Bullseye will be drilling further SW into the larger Magnetic Anomaly.................or maybe toward the bullseye to identify further step out...............or maybe just looking for a good spot for the decline. It's all so clear now, probably need Poirot, Marple, Holmes and Morse on the case. Let's hope for more clarity in a few days time.
Regards
RA
@Hopefullygold - the whole license id known as Havieron - Scallywag & Havieron are prospects within the Havieron License - furthermore Kraken, Barbossa, London & Blackbeard are targets within Scallywag, confusing eeehhh.
The area that the cyan drill-pads are in are definitely still the Havieron area but they could in theory be targeting a different (as yet unnamed) target.
The four yellow pins to the Northwest are where the Scallywag targets are located. I hope that clears up the confusion.
GLA - Paddy
No mate - the magnetic image is from 2008 when the tenement boundary would have been different.
You can see 2/3 different sets of boundary lines because there are 2 different images overlain on each other but the white box is the outline of the farm-in. That was a Google Maps kml file that I downloaded from the WA Government website, so it should be accurate.
GLA - Paddy
@Strudel I'm not the best map reader but isn't the area Paddy referred as Scallywag not actually scallywag as it is 6 kilometres away. To me it still looks like it's Havieron ?
https://greatlandgold.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Fig1-Scal_MMI.jpg
Thanks Paddy. Doesn't part of the white box cover an area not in the GGP tenement however. I'm also assuming that the size of a "block" does not align with the green grid. Thanks again.
If you look at the image - the farm-in is everything inside the white rectangle so if they were doing any drilling towards the anomaly then it would still be well withing the boundaries of the farm-in.
ATB - Paddy
RationalA,
I think Paddy's handy gridlines should be able to mark up the JV block boundaries.
Would love to double check but I'm enjoying the outdoors too much to be at a laptop and am about to light the BBQ / start the rain dance.
Hi Strudel - Yes, I had exactly the same thought that the drills to the SW could be drilling further SW (ie away from the Hav Bullseye) to have a sneaky peak at the larger magnetic anomaly. However, the JV is for an interest in a 12 block area and I'm now wondering what is the extent of those 12 blocks. If the larger anomaly is not part of those 12 blocks, then drilling in that direction would surely be against the intentions of the JV!! - That is unless GGP and NCM have come to an agreement that it would be mutually useful to know what is down there. More questions. Anyone know the extent of the 12 blocks covered by the JV - Paddy??
Anyone think, having seen Paddy's overlay, that drilling beyond the dune in the south-west (and immediately south of the field camp - as seen on the nocturnal SAR April) may have been directed towards the south west or west; and not north-east towards Havieron's main core. That is, probing the edge of the magnetic anomoly that runs the entire length of Scallywag.....
It may explain why we haven't had any drilling results from the far side of the dune, as NC are theoretically only drilling to get a MRE for Havieron. And don't want to let the cat out of the bag that they have already had a wee look at the bits of Scallywag within close range of where they are already drilling.
They did also go a good 500m north west and also north towards the neighbours for one or two holes.
I still fancy a decline south west of the main Havieron core as I reckon you could extract from Havieron and explore the deeper end of Scallywag from the same decline.
Right, tea break over, back to the garden.....
@PaddyGall. Looking at your scallywag map. The 461/ 462 to 7597 grid references where they intersect each other has the same dark orange colour as Hav.
Aren't the current cyan drill pads slightly north east of the sweetspot?
Paddy amazing stuff. Seeing it all laid out is a real eye opener. I’m blown away by the potential.
Just what have they found so interesting next to that fault line?
Based on the size if scallywag compared to Hav do we need to rename it Dirk Diggler?
cheers fella..have a gudun
@schlemiel - you can see where the drilling is located in relation to the main fault & the splay fault where Havieron is located. It's right in the 'nose' of where the 2 faults converge. Now if there was a load of mineralised fluids flowing about the region a few billion years ago then the area where the 2 faults join would seem to me to be a good area to check.
Then we had the circumstantial evidence of the 3D image on the screensaver which looked to have another deposit in roughly that same position.
It's all guesswork until proven correct or not as the case may be but we keep hearing that NCM don't drill holes on a whim. There's a reason they drilled down there - either sterilisation or more gold...
ATB - Paddy
PG - What's the inference fella? Interconnectivity of some form? tks
@launder,
This is why I find it interesting and fascinating. This is an image of the geophysics from 2008 imported into Google Maps.
https://ibb.co/PFzZGXD
They had kindly put the gridlines on the image so scaling it and lining it up was an easy exercise. I also switched on the layer which shows where the drill pads that we noticed to the South of the sand-dune are situated.
It's not conclusive evidence but that doesn't look to me to be the sort of area that you would be looking to put your decline in.
As you say there's a lot of drilling and testing to do yet but it's easy to see why it's exciting to be watching it all come together.
ATB - Paddy
Thanks for putting up that data, Paddy.
From the map of the geophysics, I am wondering if exploration at Scallywag will eventually lead us back , south-east, to the ground immediately south-weat of Havieron. I know that is a fault line that has greatly interested you.
If these areas are mineralised, it may be not where do we start, but rather where do we stop drilling.
I think a 250 man camp can provide a workforce for more than the existing Havieron drilling (and even the construction of a decline).
Tongue firmly embedded in cheek mate
Schlemiel
They should afford Heddle and Baxter seats on the board of NCM.
That would scare the hell.out of me and anyone else who had an interest in SXX.
Evidently, Newcrest back then appeared to believe that both Hav and Scally had the potential to cough up further ore deposits for the Telfer processing facility (TPF).
The question does need to be asked about how Newcrest could have overlooked these opportunities staring them in the face. Is this listed gold heavyweight run by morons?
Why can't the majors set up small teams of exploration drillers in the way junior explorers operate? That doesn't make economic sense although after saying that Newcrest have benefited massively from GGP's expertise and entrepreneurial guile. Newcrest's initial observations about Hav have borne them considerable rewards. They're the real winners in all of this. They should afford Heddle and Baxter seats on the board of NCM
A bit of Sunday morning research for anybody so inclined.
https://twitter.com/paddygall1/status/1282239666046095360?s=20
Scallywag looks to be a doozy - God only knows why Newcrest didn't go back and drill it after they didn't hit the basement in 2009 but we don't have too long now to find out what secrets she's been holding on to for the last few billion years.
GLA - Paddy