RE: Revenue27 Jun 2024 09:20
In theory local Blue Mountain landowners could assist, but would you not have to pay them? Although for a few months ECR gets a monthly payment from the sale of equipment, the money they have will need to be stretched over all the projects across Qland and Victoria.
More samples from Blue Mountain are being taken, the trailer based trommel and sluice are hardly going to find commercial quantities of gold. I literally don't understand at the moment why ECR just don't identify an area based on the data they already have and set up a wash plant or heap leach and get on with production. The continual need to jump around Australia testing and retesting buckets of rocks, will at some point soon, in my opinion, just not add anything significant. Economies of scale I guess, you have 500 test results, what would the 501st test result tell you that you didn't know, type principle.
I still feel, my own view, that the blue mountain gold results will be compared to the 30 year old report, with ECR saying something along the lines of, we have increased the amount of gold found (since the 1980s report). Let's wait and see but the testing here, there and everywhere approach isn't setting the market alight as we see again. I also notice the mass media scattergun approach to every single announcement seems to have been turned down some what. Maybe ECR are realising that few are getting sucked in saying the same thing to multiple people isn't adding anything.
Down over 5% today so far as we expect more money being spend on more buckets being sent to the lab.
My view, but something gonna have to change within ECR to excite the market, I'm not sure if that is methodology, production or personnel.