Trying to be objective29 Jan 2020 23:15
My views on the drill holes. I'm going to start with the worst holes and end up with the best holes, so bear with me!
There were three abandoned holes. Two of those we knew about, the third we did not. See HAD024, HAD027 and HAD030.
There were two holes which we already had partial results for. HAD023 and HAD028.
- The extension on HAD023 was neither here nor there. It was ok. 124m x 1g/t at that depth, with the bulk of that coming from 16m x 3.3g/t is fine, but it is not going to set the world alight compared to existing drill holes.
- The extension on HAD028 was poor. All at 0.43g/t to 0.57g/t. At depths of 800m - 1400m, with no high grade zones, those grades can pretty much be ignored.
Three new holes had (in the context of Havieron) ok grades.
- HAD026 was all low grade at 0.2g/t to 0.59g/t with the exception of 63.8m x 2.3g/t and 54.5m x 1.3g/t. The former is very good. The latter is ok and is not really of any excitement at that depth.
- HAD032 was of low to medium grade 0.29g/t to 1.2g/t
- HAD035 had a great 110.5m x 1.8g/t (which is great, but in the context of Havieron is nothing special) and was otherwise of low grade 0.28g/t - 0.51g/t
There were two holes of stellar grades:
- HAD036 contained a truly exceptional 608 gram metres, with 73m x 3.2g/t being the highlight and 95.5m x 1.6 g/t being very good.
- HAD034 having the best grades with a truly exceptional 926 gram metres (I make this the 5th best hole at Havieron) with the highlights being 79m x 3.8g/t and 136m x 2.9g/t, both of which are exceptional in their own right.
The most exciting thing is the diagram on Figure 1 showing how all these drill results fit in. In short, from my amateur eyes, you will see why they are focusing on the North East. You will see a high grade zone ranging from 10.6m x 22g/t to 45.8 m x 6.8 g/t that they think is connected. HAD034 and HAD036 are part of that picture. They extend the boundaries a little south, but really they are infil drill holes stuck between HAD020 and HAD028, possibly HAD023 too. Both ends of this are thought to curve back towards the NE, but at different points. The question is how far does this high grade zone extend. The answer is we still do not know, but we can have more confidence in the model and the high grade zones found to date.
And that really is my conclusion from today's news. The high grade zones found are thought to be connected and the two truly brilliant drill holes are firming up that theory, testing the middle of the belt. The next area to test will be the extensions to the NE and obviously to do more infil drilling.
Clearly no one can state that there is 20m oz in Havieron at this point, let alone minable reserves of that sum. But let's see how far the extensions might go. I rule out no sums in terms of size at this point.