Just back from a 5 week WalkAbout1 Dec 2023 12:08
We're just back from a 5 week bird and mammal tour in Tasmania and southern Australia. Fantastic.
No Night Parrots - too far south I think. But even in Victoria and South Australia the outback is just so vast. Visiting the Murray-Sunset National Park which is 6,300 sq km you'd drive for an hour down a dirt track, then get out at the 'right place' and walk into the Mallee bush and within 3 or 4 minutes you have no idea where the motor was so we had to use GPS trackers to get back to the track. Possibly the highlight was seeing a real proper wild Tasmanian Devil on our last night on the island; besides which we had Short-beaked Echidna, Platypus, Wombats and Spotted Quoll.
We also had a close encounter with a deadly snake. We had just arrived at a cottage we were staying in on Bruny Island with another chap and noticed the back door had been left open - which we then closed. The other chap went out to do some afternoon birding leaving MrsB and I there. A little while later while she was looking out the window I said to her there's an animal down by your legs. She looked down and said - er no its a snake eating a Grey Fantail. Thank goodness she was inside the glass window and a pair of snakes was on the outside. So when the other chap came back we pointed out the snake and then thought - hang on the door was open when we arrived. So we carefully searched the rest of the cottage, lifting up all the settees and looking under the beds and behind the curtains etc etc. We were more than a bit freaked out - if you google how deadly the Tiger Snake is you'll see why.
Why am I telling you this you might well ask?
Well. The other chap as it turned out just happens to be an Exploration Geologist out of Perth.
So obviously we got talking about Greatland and the Havieron mine.
His comments after reading all the information on the GGP website and elsewhere are as follows:
The Board. The exec team and BOD are not the usual chumps sitting on an Aussie exploration/wannabe mining company. There are so many Aussie junior resource companies that simply will not find an economic deposit. No… these guys are serious. For what it’s worth, I think the team is a powerful, dynamic team that is willing to stake their collective reputations on Havieron working.
Havieron is an interesting Au+Cu deposit. It’s been drilled and drilled and drilled, with over 200,000m of drilling completed (that’s quite a lot but not that unusual for a system this size and shape). The style of mineralisation is a little unusual, like its neighbour Telfer. Both, I think originate from deep (very deep) hydrothermal (hot fluids) processes.
The Ernest Giles, Panorama and Bromus Projects have lithium potential. Very interested in these.
He did ask quite a few questions about how the Joint venture was set up and an observation about the Rio Winu project which dont need repeating here.
Nothing new there but it's always nice to get a seco
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