Havieron lookalike20 Mar 2025 07:28
When the Havieron crescent was first discovered it was looked on as an anticline tipped up on its end with the core being full of breccia. Of course this proved not to be the case.
Describing the WDD it definitely is an anticline with a mineralised strata ( the LLU) wrapped over the top of it.
My point of my quiz yesterday and my presentation was to show that the core of the WDD anticline has similar grades of ore as some of the Havieron sulphides and it’s breccia.
Therefore the WDD has similar characteristics as the crescent with similar grades. It is nearly horizontal all within 3km radius of the shaft. There’s no dyke causing issues. It has a vertical fault with a fluid pathway running through it. It’s all within hard rock no slushy mess to get through.
The WDD is slightly further ahead in first production terms but way behind in exploration terms. By that I mean the modelling and mine planning are in place, the underground crusher is already there, the route out to the ROM pad is in place, but the orebody is still open downwards, to the north,south and west. That means there’s a lot more to define.
In the WDD RNS it states they will be drill planning the next round to get more knowledge of the core and describes it as a mirror image of the Main Dome.
This indicates there could be more ore above this WDD where in the Main Dome they removed it by an SLC operation .
Havieron hasn’t got this luxury of a big area to SLC it’s all stoping and backfilling to leave the surface and aquifers intact.
The WDD looks like our second Havieron in my opinion .