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https://twitter.com/Ben_Turney/status/1637022524612526083
Posted on Saturday, the jeep registration looks to be Zimbabwean.
FK: Keith works in WA in mining business development, he works internationally and has shown a keen interest in KCB, Which Australian companies work in KCB? Sandfire, Cobre, ENRG Elements. What it says is Sandfire wants Karakubis?
https://twitter.com/KavangoRes/status/1635537781723217920
Some new core photos in the latest thread
He won't find anything in that part of the core, the gold (if it exists) will be in the BIF and within the sulphides 290-400m. They are relogging the core, ie repeating the initial geological analysis, so it shouldn't be materially different if the in-house geologists did their job correctly first time round. For Ditau to be viable they'll need a minimum 2% Au and that's mostly likely going to come from deeper and finding the feeder zones and we won't know until the next drill campaign.
RFJ, microscopic gold is interesting, so difficult to spot.
Re controlling structures; on the Kavango Telegram site, there's a copy of presentation 2022 February Corporate Presentation which is no longer available from KAV's website. Slides 10-14 cover Ditau, slide 14 is the CSAMT and it shows the position of drill 4 although it sloped right to left not vertically. Drill 3 also targeted i10 and stopped at 300m, a shame because the interesting stuff is over 300m. The point is the CSAMT on this presentation shows distinct layering, if the green (?) resistivity represents the BIF then you can see sheer zones to the left and right which could be feeders. The 2022 Q4 presentation slides 26-30, contains the same CSAMT line but it seems to be dumbed down as the sheer zones are no longer identifiable.
Ella, you have this habit of finding very interesting information. I probably looked at the RNS headline grades and thought BT was clutching at straws.
The RNS is very detailed containing a table of results at the bottom, the gold element is the least interesting probably because they weren't looking for it in conjunction with haematite and despite the Au grades in the table they haven't sent many specific gold samples for fire assay (Brett probably looking at this as we speak). There's a link to core photo's, have no idea why KAV hasn't tweeted or made them more prominent on the website, they are basically hidden which is a shame.
"Photo 2" and "Photo 3" look very similar iron pyrite and chalcopyrite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD5BCDjTQn0
KAV's made a land grab 3000km2 around Ditau
https://twitter.com/TheMarketBullAU/status/1633042117693173760
This links to an interview posted this morning.
12.06 KSZ drilling in "a couple of months"...."a six month campaign"....."drill B1 first".......then Ditau
Timetable is KSZ about May, B1 results June, Ditau start cNov
Did KAV run XRF over the 100m section of core last year as I'd be surprised if they didn't unless they were just focussed on carbonatites? Also wondering how much core was actually assayed? I can't tell whether they've got a lot more gold in the 100m section than first thought because they weren't looking for it , or if the report is telling KAV to go deeper and any magnetic structures.
BT drops the phrase "old Kavango" into conversations. Old Kavango was insightful enough to secure 14000km2 but some of the geophysic analysis hasn't been up to scratch and that's been a root cause of the current spiral.
KAV has changed, BT is coming across as more mature and some of this is down to the guiding hand of Peter Bee. For example, last summer KAV were preparing for the KCB drill, BT & the PIs were bullish, Brett Grist was hesitant, even a few weeks of delay waiting for the CSAMT analysis could have materially impacted the campaign and we see KAV applying this learning to the KSZ, one could argue drop a couple of drills into B1 as that will take 2 months and then take a view on B3/4 but I'm ok with KAV delaying until they're ready to go. KAV seem to be using external experts to validate everything as with the Ditau announcement and the recent KCB. I saw the headline 0.17g/t Au and wrote off Ditau which was sceptical mistake.
I'm with BCB at the moment, potentially 3 company making projects which should all drill this year so need to give KAV space to get on with it.
A 2nd BOTG was sent on Friday:
But while B1 is drill ready, we still want to do some more work on B3 and B4 before we start the drill bit turning.
…..revisiting DHEM data allowed us to remodel and redefine the target…..a much tighter shape.
…possible because downhole EM data gives pure data taken at the depth of the causative body. Where modelling from surface results in a lot of noise from the rock formations between the geophysical anomaly and the surface, downhole readings don’t face anything like this. This gives us much greater resolution and, in turn, more discrete dimensions.
A target’s “conductance” is the average for its entire surface area. So, when this surface area decreases as it has at B1, the figure rises as its being spread over a smaller area.
Alongside this, Jeremy’s desktop studies reviewing other discoveries around the world has provided us an updated interpretation that the target could be associated with pyrrhotite. Pyrrhotite is very highly conductive and often associated with the nickel-bearing mineral pentlandite in nickel/copper/platinum group element massive sulphide bodies.
Likewise, we’ve also been able to use the data to effectively rule out a number of possible causes for the conductance other than massive sulphides. These include burned coal and saline aquifers.
The more surveying and data interpretation we’ve done on B1, the more precisely we’ve been able to define it.
The more precisely we’ve been able to define the target, the higher its conductance and the greater our confidence it could be what we are looking for.
That’s the stage we want to get to with B3 and B4.
After all, the two conductors are already in the range of potential sulphides with modelled conductance of 4,100 and 2,760 Siemens.
However, both have also been modelled as much larger in surface area than B1.
With this in mind, we see an opportunity to enhance our understanding of B3 and B4 by gathering more data on them ahead of drill testing.
A range of surface surveys are now underway on the conductors, and we have also commissioned a leading geological authority to complete a new report.
So, while it goes without saying that we’re keen to get the rig in the field and the drill bit turning as quickly as we can…
BT is talking about the legal structures at this stage. I was encouraged that BT downplayed an immediate deal with Majors saying it was too early stage. Still no timelines but I really hope KAV goes it alone with 3-4 drills in the next couple of months.