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(Reminder) Central Scotland meet up - evening 5th May:
I have decided to give the cardigan a special outing and invite all interested GGP-ers to a gathering on the evening of the 5th May.

The plan throws up the obvious issue of trying to find a mid-way location that is not too Glasgow, nor too Edinburgh. The Harthill Services on the M8 probably do have a lovely branch of the Wild Bean Cafe, but I thought Stirling's Birds & Bees pub may be a more pleasant and easy to reach venue. It has a small ish function room that I have tentatively reserved for us, outdoor beer garden and food available. The Stirling mainline train station is not so far away and may be more appropriate for folks coming from further afield north or south.

Let me know numbers if you plan to attend by replying to this message so I can firm up the reservation.

PS. You Doncaster lot, don't clog up this thread you pesky lot..... Start your own....
;-)

Too much of the white fluffiness over HAV today.

Some of you will be blaming Sandeep of course....

JoeBloggs,
Read from the very start of the thread....

@Jambo,
You could always combine our GGP gathering on the 5th with a quick catch up with the mighty Stirling Albion just the other side of the river?

{Tongue firmly in cheek}

Getting the invite back to the top of the evening reading list.....

@Bamps,
Would be a pleasure to have you in our northern domain, no need for passport, translator may be a wise move though....
;-)

Bumping this invite back into the lunchtime chat....

I have decided to give the cardigan a special outing and invite all interested GGP-ers to a gathering on the evening of the 5th May.

The plan throws up the obvious issue of trying to find a mid-way location that is not too Glasgow, nor too Edinburgh. The Harthill Services on the M8 probably do have a lovely branch of the Wild Bean Cafe, but I thought Stirling's Birds & Bees pub may be a more pleasant and easy to reach venue. It has a small ish function room that I have tentatively reserved for us, outdoor beer garden and food available. The Stirling mainline train station is not so far away and may be more appropriate for folks coming from further afield north or south.

Let me know numbers if you plan to attend by replying to this message so I can firm up the reservation.

We had another cloudless image today - it would appear the deluge of rain hit Telfer but not HAV..... the footage shared on here made Scotland look dry!

We have some new activity within 200m NE of the explosives store. There is quite a nice north-west trend line forming between Apollo, our previous northern holes, this new hole plus the previous holes we've done closer in to HAV but still north of the dune line.

Note - I ain't saying those three blobs by the bend in the road are drills - they still look like drainage for the track from everything I've seen to date. Sadly no radar available to prove me wrong - it would appear a power supply has gone very ker-futt and is 100% dodo.

We have a new bit of activity within HAV in the north east and all the previous drill pads are still busy drilling. Takes a while to get deep down....

I'm going miss all this satellite scrutiny when they use the decline for starting drills from the top of the ore body.

Ooops, meant west not east to complete the trapezoid

The mid 150 drill series.....?
It's almost like they are trying to draw a trapezoid around the current extent of HAV, just missing a couple more new drills to the north and east to complete the trapezoid.

I wonder if they're thinking this ore body rises like a multiple armed candlestick from the deep. HAV is one arm and they are looking for others.

All the drill results between us and Apollo remain interesting and cannot come soon enough. I was thinking our northern neighbours are due back to pick up where they left off. However the next week of 40C and increasing chance of rain may delay their return for a couple of weeks.

@PaddyG
Read the RNS from the GGP home page (rather than from this site) - it has more detail - including the two blanks from the two Zipa drill cores..... which is a smidgeon gutting.

Zipa first two holes are in today's RNS if you read the version on the GGP website.....

Not the greatest of news, which is disappointing for both companies and hopes for a district wide discovery a la Kalgoorlie.

If you go to the GGP webpage and read their (fuller) version of today's RNS it has more info. Particularly on Zipa's first two holes having the right geology but not the right results - no gold nor copper.

Which makes me wonder where are Teach results - were they not drilled before Zipa?

"Gold lamme slippers"....!?!

No Hydrogen, you go too far....
Extravagance may be sewing new elbow patches onto the existing cardigan so I can cut a stylish dash at one of The Stag dos.

The faith in my cardigan is restored.

The multiple locations all in one tight cluster doesn't make sense to me for drilling at this stage of exploration.

@HopefullyG
Can you explain what you mean by "confirmed" please?

Is there something new and fresh on Twitter from PG?

Had a look at yesterday's day light image and played around with the NDVI filter. That filter does vegetation and has proved to be very handy to spot drill pads...... They clear all the scrub out the way before starting.

The three dots on the north side before the bend in the road still aren't doing it for me.....

Let me just breathe on my glasses and rub them with a corner of my cardigan..... And then I'll be with you.

Wood burning?
Better advice would be insulate your house and invest in a vest..... and a house coat - remember them?

Wood burning is only a good long-term solution if you have lots of 100+ year old hardwood trees in your garden, with one or two that handily blow over every few years. And you have somewhere to store two years of wood and leave it to let it dry nicely so it burns efficiently.

Wood pellet boilers, which are very good for the convenience of heat while not having to stoke the fire, have the problem of the cost of the pellets being directly linked to the price of oil - the pellets are dried out with heat from oil burning.

Or think more laterally and move to the south of France.

I'm a bit sceptical that there even are four pads on the track on the way to the store. I think the marks, which I think someone showed had been around for ages, are drainage for the road during the rainy season..... They seem too close to one another for pads.

I'm also curious as to why they are south of the dune (near the decline entrance) and on the southern side of Lake Havieron. Infill drilling was supposedly done and dusted so I'm trying to contort my 3D visualisation of what is going on to make it into "growth" drilling.....

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the meaning of growth - I think of it as finding all new gold ore. The professionals may mean proving bits of found ore are indeed interlinked, and infill is drilling so many holes in a grid pattern that there is no need to assume or speculate found ore is a continuation from the previous hole.

Will enjoy reading the RNS tonight in all its glorified detail.