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Reddirt - thanks for your earlier answer about the lighting towers, by the diamond drill rigs. I have just logged in again and seen your message.
Paddy & Strudel - thanks for all your work on the images. I am waiting for the next one that shows the big sign,
" Nine rigs. I told you, we are going as fast as we can - SB. "
Thanks for the answer. I like that , 24/7 . They are in a hurry !
yes 24/7,, right through the ausie summer, keen, YUP
24/7 mate - nice and cool at night.
Sorry if it's a stupid question...do they drill all night ?
@Paddy, vehicle headlights moving at night.....
Someone else suggested this "it's a vehicle" a while back when the distant northern light appeared on the 15th Nov. So I set off around bits of outback on the nocturnal satellite image trying to see if I could spot similar traffic elsewhere. There was nothing on the entire Nullabor straight - you could certainly see the streetlights at the roadhouses though. And during my random meanderings I found a beautifully lit multi-truck ore train on a private rail track heading to Port Hedland - now that looked cool in the midst of mile after mile of darkness.
It convinced me that if it is a light on the image that is still there as you zoom in to 200m scale then it is a static light on the ground. However only time will tell if it is drill pad prep works, RC drilling through 400m cover, and then the exciting bit for us all - full bhoona diamond core drilling.
That to me looks to be the most likely position of the 8 diamond rigs that we know are on site.
https://ibb.co/YPcDjfQ
@ghandi - the big cluster to the NW is where the field camp is located.
ATB - Paddy
Hi Launder,
The Diamond Rigs will have portable lighting towers sitting alongside. Nice and Bright !
Reddirt.
GLA LTH
Black and white setting is definitely better visually. I hadn’t noticed before but there is a big cluster of lights to the left if you zoom out a bit. Are these GGP sites too?
The intense area in the centre id the site compound - some of the bright spots are more intense than the others, I think that's where the rigs are.
You can count 9 'brightly' lit spots - IMO.
Do each of the bright lights represent a drill spot?
Hi Strudel,
Not sure about the one on the Northern sand-dune, might just be a vehicle moving between drill sites.
I've had a play with the filters on the night-time image and they stand out really well in black n' white if you use these settings.
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?lat=-21.71946&lng=122.64506&zoom=15&time=2020-05-25&preset=CUSTOM&gainOverride=1&gammaOverride=1&redRangeOverride=[0,1]&greenRangeOverride=[0,1]&blueRangeOverride=[0,1]&datasource=Sentinel-1%20AWS%20(S1-AWS-IW-VVVH)&layers=VV,VV,VV&evalscript=cmV0dXJuIFtWVioyLjUsVlYqMi41LFZWKjIuNV07
I've overlaid the night image with the last clear day image and it's clear there are two more drill sites that we couldn't see on yesterday's day image as they were obscured by the cloud cover, and both are probing to the West / North West direction so all looking good IMO.
https://ibb.co/D13gSFp
ATB - Paddy
Thanks, Strudel -
I love the way the drills are so busy, night and day.
I seem to remember that NCM have mobile scanners, beside the drill rigs, so that the cores can be examined, as they are extracted. As you say, the diamond drills would be likely to have more light around them than an RC site.
"Keeps on giving"
Looked cloudless....
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?lat=-21.71405&lng=122.64358&zoom=14&time=2020-05-25&preset=7_SAR-URBAN&datasource=Sentinel-1%20AWS%20(S1-AWS-IW-VVVH)
Lots of central activity with the NW new hole plus lots of activity scattered through the north east.
I think there may be the start of a new northerly hole a third of the way from the most northern of the NW holes towards the most northerly in the NE. It's a pink spot which in daylight looks to be right on the southern edge of the first sand dune line.
@Value, blue lights seemed to precede green when I was trawling through the whole sequence of images. Could it be RC drilling through 400m of cover first where they just dump the drill material, before better lit diamond core where they have to be able to see precisely to stack all the (10m?) cores and label them in sequence.