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Curiosities on the satellite over most recent updates have been activity 600m south of the original GGP camp (related to previous early 2020 drilling locations) and also just off the track east of the GGP camp - a hole or two adding to one previously spotted on satellite way way back - can't recall quite when....

Sadly the 4th July daylight image is yet to be loaded due to the usual "computer says no" issue at Sentinel HQ. There comes a point where they won't bother to keep trying to unscramble data but move onto the next data set due on the 9th. Before that we will have a radar image which is a fairly surefire way of seeing what is happening on the ground.

Patience....

Today's daylight image is just about free from cloud at HAV. It is clear over the last couple of images that the rain has kept all the little ponds and Lake Havieron nice and damp. I guess that will put off a lot of the neighbours from setting off to exotic drill locations with difficult ground conditions.

Back to today's image..... caveat small gadget sunny day... Difficult to be certain but I can't see any obvious new drill locations to the south of the original GGP camp nor along the road to the east of the camp.

Might get a better look later on a full sized screen.

Actually let me correct myself. The spot you spotted PG is a new spot, new now and not drilled in April 2020. So that's three spots in a row about 500m apart.

@PG
Spotted that spot, I think Saturday....
10rh April 2020 GGP were there before, although about 100m closer to Lake Havieron. I wondered if they (NC) are going back to all previous far flung locations that GGP thought were interesting and just drilling deeper.

There was also one stray radar north of the original GGP camp in early 2020 I think, just over the first dune line I think. I'd forgotten all about it but reminded myself when searching for previous roadside activity that was close to what we see now.

I admit I prefer the Rio "minimalist" approach to RNSs. Others seem to demand an RNS every time the company discovers a paperclip on the office carpet .....

Had a look back through radar images. The recent signal by the road just east of GGP's original camp is indeed a familiar spot. They were 100m further east on the 7th April last year (2020). Now we have to see if they stay for more because, unlike the fairly active set of drills 600m south of the GGP camp, this was always a one off back in 2020.

@ProfQ

I've been musing about Rio's inactivity recently too. The satellite images say everything was ready after a few weeks of work up to the 25th April. And since then hee-haw has been visible in terms of activity. I guess they still have a heap of time available to do it during the 2021 drill season, but it is odd they go to no doubt great expense to do all the prep work and then leave it sitting idle.

Don't have time at the mo but I think that western drill beside the road is a location from way way way back. It may have appeared once on a radar image....

Sadly there is no more activity 600m south of GGP'S old field camp. I wonder if they are doing one off core drills to deeper depths to follow up previous GGP drilling?

Sentinel ended up in a scrambled mess at the turn of the year and they never managed to load up all the data - just abandoned it cos the next set of daylight images had come in OK. I fear the same may unfold here unless someone is putting in a weekend shift?

Off to admire that radar in the meantime. Far flung bits of the west and north of HAV may be interestingky busy.

@PG
Good grief! When you said there was activity in the north I didn't expect that far north or in areas nowhere near previous activity.

Mad keen to see Sentinel's latest and greatest daylight image now....

I shall console myself by weeping quietly until Sentinel sorts its fankle out.

Imagine if the image is cloudy after a prolonged wait.....

Look at the last radar on Sentinel, one single distinct signal 600m south of the original GGP field camp. Ran through radar images from early 2020 and posted all about it recently. (Click on my posting name and search back through my posts.... You won't need much scrolling to find it, big list of Sentinel links).

I reckon this area was on Callum's screensaver. It was always a good distance away from the first bits of unfolding HAV discoveries.

Hoping for a daylight image today to see if they are still in that area.

And perhaps more interestingly looking forward to any kind of results from drilling in areas to the north of HAV.

@JtheB
I thought the Hamman note was a particularly poor example of a generally shoddy set of publications. Attributing a value of millions to other nearby GGP tenements when not one drill had even broken the top soil was just idiotic In my mind - I presume the intern left shortly after writing that broker's note.

Over the years I have always asked myself "who paid them to write this?" when I find myself reading brokers' notes. If you approach them with the view that someone else wants you to buy or sell using your money not theirs, then that is a good starting point.

!!!!!!

Bamps!

What are you doing to us?
Half eight on a Sunday morning and you put out a post with the word"vector" in the subject line, and to add to the terror then direct us to a "lecture" within the post itself.

...are we all on the naughty step?

(What on earth did we collectively do? Not top-up enough to keep the share price above 20p? Trust me, I'm doing my bit ....)

;-)

We got a new Sentinel daylight image yesterday. There's an odd spotty effect from partial cloud cover starting just north of HAV that means you can't see what is going on cos of the mottled overlay.

What you can see in HAV is a pad in the far flung west, north side of the bend in the road, about 600m south east of GGP's original field camp. This is the one that had the clear radar signal last weekend. It was impossible to spot any definitive ground activity in the early months of 2020 from daylight images when there were all sorts of radar signals. I wonder if they were RC drilling back then? And now they've switched to diamond core.

North of HAV it is very hard to see what our northern neighbours are doing, if anything, at Apollo. I listened to select bits of Artemis'webinar (thanks to the kind poster who put the link on here) and found it interesting that their man sounded more confident about actually being able to get to their two further north targets - can't recall their names - maybe Juno and something else? Apollo and the other nearby one close to our boundary they can "just drive up to". I guess they have enough funding to dig their way through the sand dunes / washes to get to the more remote parts of their tenement. I did also think there was still a lot of nearology going on.

Off to see if I can:
(A) find Blackhills
(B) see any activity
(C) drink more tea
- although I may adjust the order of those activities.

@Kieffy
I hope we ain't relying on Artemis' thoughts on geology and exploration for any kind of guidance cos we've built our decline on their circle south west of HAV in that Figure 5.

@Bamps

I think I've understood some of your reply...... I get the ability to increase production with two declines.

However did we even know there was a decent sized northern breccia in Nov 19? One worth putting a whole new decline into?

All very intriguing specially the number and spacing of holes drilled sporadically between Nov 19 and April 20. They kept going back, they must've found something that for their attention. Random holes further north never got the repeated scattergun drilling as a follow up (or at least not yet...)

....and another for the sequence of far flung west activity from 27th Nov 2019:

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=15&lat=-21.72047&lng=122.6323&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2019-11-27T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2019-11-27T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN

It did strike me that the activity now on the 13th June radar image in this location south of the original GGP camp aligns quite precisely with one of the last locations visited in April 2020.

So are they going back to drill deeper?
Or are they going back to break off at a different angle from the point where they are through ~400m of cover?

The other curiosity, which I'm sure I noticed at the time, was all of this activity was always a good couple of hundred metres apart, and not in any kind of discernable regular pattern. I guess if you have a detailed gravity and magnetic anomoly map to hand the drilling will all be logical to those who know.

Have traveled back through radar images and come up with the following far flung western activity, most recent back through Jan 2020. We've been here before! Lots!! First link is most recent from Sunday, the rest are April 2020 back to January. These cannot possibly all be water bole holes, or geological sterilising drills - there are too many, surely?

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=14&lat=-21.72231&lng=122.63496&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2021-06-13T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2021-06-13T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=14&lat=-21.72235&lng=122.63497&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2020-04-19T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2020-04-19T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=14&lat=-21.72235&lng=122.63497&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2020-04-07T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2020-04-07T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=14&lat=-21.72235&lng=122.63497&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2020-03-26T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2020-03-26T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=14&lat=-21.72235&lng=122.63497&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2020-03-02T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2020-03-02T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=14&lat=-21.72235&lng=122.63497&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2020-02-19T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2020-02-19T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=14&lat=-21.72152&lng=122.63806&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2020-02-07T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2020-02-07T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=14&lat=-21.72152&lng=122.63806&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2020-01-14T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2020-01-14T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN

Small gadget caveat....

The activity at Black hills doesn't align with any signals on the radar. And the structure crossing the dune plus the circled bits seemed to be there on the 9th Feb this year. I just went back and picked a date at random to compare.

Bright sunshine on a train whilst looking so I may be utterly wrong