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....at least we can all look forward to a new radar image from Sentinel.

I did have a look at Rudall (or what I think is the bit of stripey red outback that is Rudall) when the last daylight image came out and couldn't see anything that looked like drilling activity.

Others may spot things that I can't.

...but let's talk about red things.

Sentinel has a new daylight image. Working from a small screen so everything that follows may be nonsense.

Scallywag - we're no longer east of the bend in the road at Barbarossa. The last satellite image had one tiny wisp of cloud in a vast blue sky so it may well be we moved on more than five days ago. I cannot see any new activity in and around where we drilled Scallywag before. May go off and check Blackhills next. Or do you think we may be at Rudalll - I've no way of sussing out where Rudall is yet on my gadget, takes a lot to "get your eye in".

Lots of roads are getting upgraded in and around HAV. We have two more drill locations active again south of the southern dune.

Can't see much happening to the north on latitudes of the HAV paperclip.

Also can't see our northern neighbours other than what still looks like prep work for their field camp. We all like to think they'd kindly drill Apollo for us first, but maybe they are off to drill and something much more inaccessible at the start of the season just to see what is reachable / inaccessible across their tenement.

A thought : if gold rich breccias don't really have a meaningful magnetic signature then every company with Patterson tenements who has planned a drill campaign around gravity and magnetic co-incidences is possibly barking up the wrong tree? Or have I got that bit about HAV's "bullseye" geological signature turning out not to be as meaningful as first thought utterly wrong?

Give it to me straight, I can handle being told I've understood something utterly wrong. I wasn't intending to apply for that fully funded PhD to study HAV's geology that Newcrest are offering.

Doh, Chemistry really isn't my thing is it?

Does my joke still work with potassium as our new metal......

No?

Could I suggest we combine the previous "what's the next valuable metal" thread and the "snap, crackle and pop to cement ratio" into this one new handy thread and declaring, purely speculatively, tungsten to be our new metal we can therefore debate Special K.

@PaddyG

Back to the small screen to spot blue dots. Radar images are not usually very subtle when they have chunky drilling hardware on site.

Did you notice that the location of the activity north of HAV dune is about equi-distance between two previous drill holes? Be curious to see if they are proving HAV northern breccia, or exploring a continuation of geology towards Apollo.

I didn't get that TV reference , sorry. I had a deprived Scottish childhood whee TV, like central heating, was rationed.....

We had unlimited rain from what I recall, with extra snow in winter....

You'll be delighted to hear Sentinel's radar has loaded at Scallywag and we have, not one, but two signs of activity to the east of the bend in the road (8km west of HAV) at what others more knowledgeable than I reckon is Barbarossa.

Will try again to see if the northern neighbours are doing anything - that should take an entire afternoon.

All of the description that.follows is while using a small screen gadget on a super slow connection.

No sign of our northern neighbours.
We are active at HAV north of the sand-dune - if you follow the road past the paperclip and don't follow the curve to the explosives store but keep going straight across the desert for a couple of hundred metres. I cannot tell if this is revisiting an old or an entirely new drill location.

We are also active south of the sand dunes.

Checking out Scallywag may take an hour or two the way my internet is behaving....

Can't recall precisely but was one of their most recent targets going to be in the middle of the big pond near Apollo?

I presume it dries up completely and you can get a rig into (and back out of) the middle of it? Or is directional drilling your friend?

I've noticed that HAV has very few new drill pads between Sentinel daylight image updates these days. They have been busy doing side drills from previous holes I guess, in what is effectively a new phase of exploration. I imagine they are desperate to start drilling from the top of the ore body and can't wait for the decline to be finished.

Patience.....

@PaddyG
That activity with our northern neighbours ain't exactly obvious on Sentinel....even playing with the viewing settings to false colour on a large screen.

I think we get a new radar on the 30th (from the 29th....) They'll have no place to hide then.

...indeed, well spotted Prof Q

I wonder if they have been sneaking around the far flung western regions for the last couple of weeks - I was beginning to wonder when there seemed to be no Scallywag activity after the RNS announcing a start.

Shall deploy my patience again.

We got a new cloudless image today - and I still can't see any activity at Scallywag. Is it me? For once I'm actually on a full-sized screen.

....other lack of activity is noted at our northern neighbours.

HAV - hammer and tongs. Not so many new drill pads, just one south of the dune, but undoubtedly lots of re-use of existing locations and an ever deepening decline and an ever growing spoil heap.

And similar good spot last night to myoung

Should be opening up another 15% or so this morning.

.....watch the market promptly prove me wrong.

@YR1man
Well done, good info from the back shift. And the board are obviously expecting a counter offer saying do nothing for now to shareholders. Perhaps hoping for a better ratio of hard cash to paper.

I've been in this for three decades, through multiple name changes and will be sad to sell up in some ways....

Oooh nice - if true - and not entirely unexpected ..,a takeover.

Sentinel has a radar image from the 17th. Still can't see any Scallywag drilling.....
And nothing between HAV and our northern neighbours.

Usual small screen caveat.....

Just had a very quick look. More activity north of the paperclip, this second drill location slightly north east.

Could see nothing new at HAV apart from a new drill south of the dune, to the east of previous activity.

Scallywag still doesn't seem to have anything new - the two cleared areas to the north have had no further changes.... Or nothing that I can see.....

Usual small screen caveat applies.

Glad someone spotted something new at Scallywag.... It was beginning to look like nothing had actually started.

@Bamps - cobalt nickel separation

I followed that link and had a good laugh, reminding myself why I didn't bother studying chemistry in any kind of real depth.

It appears they have tried to pound, grind, boil, drown, dissolve and bubble the ores with the metals in them over the weeks and months and come to the conclusion that they've fiddled with the samples too much that everything remains in a congealed lump, now more toxic after all the reagents they added. I laughed aloud when they described achieving a slimey sample rather than a more purified end result.

More amusing was the "we'll go and try it at a mine anyway" when they discovered oxidisation was affecting their results in the lab depending on how long the bags of sample rocks were left lying around exposed to the air before they started processing them.

As you say, a tricky issue that needs more experimental work....

Bamps,

Never mind more background research, my biggest hurdle to diversification is to hit the Sell button on existing GGP holdings. The Buy button has been so much more attractive during the recent GGP dip, and I don't see that changing until the tail end of 2023 with the schedule of newsflow ahead of us.

@BlindF
Thanks for pointing out my error. Must pay more attention when reading....

Also puts our immediate northern neighbours back into the "possible" list for a bit of diversification.