A few thoughts on the RNS17 Feb 2023 20:22
1. I think we’d already rather gotten the feeling this campaign had not succeeded, hence, I suppose, the limited SP drop today - already priced in.
2. I’m now very grateful for the large raise a few months ago. With all that money secured, this feels like one of several rolls of the dice that hasn’t come off. We have money for more goes. I take great comfort from that.
3. It seems to me that the main problem at PL082 has been the belief that we had an anticline with the Dkar/NGP contact near surface, whereas in fact we had a syncline with the contact way down. Presumably if we’d known that before we started, we wouldn’t have done the drill campaign there. The synclinal structure was pretty clear on the CSAMT that was run part way through the drilling campaign, so to me the big error (in retrospect) was not running that CSAMT and identifying the syncline before we started drilling. That does seem like an error in retrospect, but then again at the start of the campaign we were going on soils and AEM which I think everyone thought was appropriate at the time.
4. The slight positive flowing from 3 is it seems a very easy lesson to learn, and now that we know how well our CSAMT interpretation can identify synclinal and anticlinal structures I am confident that next time we drill the KCB we will be drilling an anticline.
5. Obviously we didn’t find the Dkar\NGP contact or a copper deposit, but that’s not surprising given the geology we in fact encountered. There does seem to be reason to believe that, given more favourable geology in a different location, the CSAMT would pinpoint the contact. In other words, there are signs that we do now have the tech needed to target KCB drilling very accurately, given a shallow Dkar/NGP contact; we just didn’t have such a shallow contact in this location. But again, next time we drill we should do better.
6. I’m puzzled as to why we got such compelling soil results (not just the pure numbers but arranged as though following subsurface features) at 082 if there’s nothing there.