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Funnily enough I was about to ask BottleR the same. Black hills is frequently a sparkle strewn bit of outback on radar images - something to do with rock outcrops on the surface perhaps?

Just had a look and nothing struck me as drill-y or pad-y in what I could see.

Caveat: I may have been looking at the wrong bit of image, it has been a while since I looked at Black hills in any detail..... My eye is not quite "in".

Yesterday's image is out...... Alongside a daylight image without clouds - lucky us!

Activity at HAV south of the dune, in the north east and south west and by the central compound. Also a curiosity of a big signal just off the road to the field core shed from the decline. I think GGP drilled this way back in the day with four or so locations..... I swore blind it was an extra zone of mineralisation on Callum's infamous screensaver way back in the day ....

At work so no time to spy on the neighbours.....

Could be wrong - but think they had maintenance scheduled.....

I think 8 (or briefly 9) rigs has been standard for a very long time - the radar is a fairly good way of counting them. I also believe with lots of moving to and fro every 12 days across HAV there has been no let up in drill core production.
Remember NC are taking every core and x-raying it / voodoo magic metallurgy in the big building at the original HAV field camp before they send them to the Perth lab. They know very accurately what they are getting out of the ground even if the formal (publishable independent) assay results are stuck in a three month long, or more, log jam.

As I said, they are only publishing newsworthy core results..... Stuff that may affect the share price - which is what RNSs should all be about.

@Hydrogen
I always read the Red Chris stuff too, to try and get a handle on NC's approach - and to smile at just how good HAV's grades and lengths are in comparison.

OK, OK "smile" means gloat really.....

Since they have published an MRE and have said they are doing infill at HAV then the majority of what they are encountering is just proving up info that they strongly suspect. You could argue it is a known known and therefore not needing an RNS.

Stuff that will get into an RNS now has to equate to new zones or better intercepts than ever before - hence relatively few drills get classed as "interesting" and make the news-worthy criteria.

They are doing the same at Red Chris - news-worthy drills get published when they have something new to say about the resource - the new Eastern Ridge is one of the excitements that made it into NC's update.

Of course many folks here on these boards expect the senior management of every AIM company to be on Twitter 24/7 with updates every hour; and formal RNSs are required every time they find a paperclip on the office carpet.

.....it shouldn't be that way. Senior management need to focus on running the company as well as they possibly can!

Forgot to say....

I agree we must be approx 50 results short of all the holes they've drilled between the previous and now this update. Four then seven....

Maybe it's a new SD strategy to only report the "interesting" highlights that hit good grades or extend the horizontal extent of gold bearing rocks in a known zone or go to a new depth from surface. The rest they keep out of sight and use them for the next MRE update as they are just the same old same old we expect from HAV - consistently good grades over good lengths.

The task of allocating assay results to holes on a satellite image is do-able, up until you have about two dozen well spaced holes. But you need a complete set of daylight and radar images.

After that it rapidly becomes too difficult. What if drilling goes wrong in one hole and they stay for longer? Can you tell what is what happening rather than a new hole being drilled from the same location but in a totally different direction? Then how can you tell they have started a new hole, on the same pad, but veering off in a new direction after the 400m of cover?

Checking if the "hole in the north" has ever been reported is easier. Get the co-ordinates from Sentinel, then go back through NC's tables of reports to see if it appears.

My money is on "no".

There have been all sorts of far flung holes (or certainly activity on the radar images) in and around HAV, some pre-dating NC's joint venture and they have never been reported. They couldn't all have been bore holes for water....

@PaddyG
The last Sentinel radar on 1st June had seemingly nothing happening at the Juri JV. Does Planet show likewise?

I'm curious as to where that drill may have gone as rigs, apologies for the metaphor, are like gold dust in Western Oz ......It looks like Rio hadn't drilled after a lot of prep work, and there is nothing yet at Apollo both close to HAV and favourites for the nearlologists.

@ProfQ, the forecast does not look the greatest. Dust storms and cloud may thwart our hopes for a decent satellite.

I've also worked out why I was confused about the early" radar the other day - it wasn't early, just the usual once every twelve days. It was me, losing track of five days in the midst of a very hot and sunny Scottish holiday. I probably need to spend more time every late afternoon lying for a while in a nice refreshing pool in the nearest Highland river.

@ProfQ
Just spotted a sneaky radar on the 1st. I'm sure that is five days or so early?

Had a brief look at HAV - far flung activity at the "paper clip" to the north and the south end of the old dune bridge to the south.

Goliath is odd, a vague hint of a signal at the camp but no drill pad activity in the immediate vicinity west or east - could they have completed all that they wanted? I'm on a very small screen so there is a limit to how much I can look round and about to try and spot them on other Juri targets.

Rio don't seem to be doing anything, neither
is there activity at Apollo the northern neighbour's spot, and nothing at Scallywag either.

Usual caveat about small screen technology.....

I think 21deg is the nocturnal depth of winter temperature in Telfer.....

Or the dizzy heights of peak Scottish summer if you are away from the sea breeze.

There are fewer clouds in Scotland than above Telfer today. HAV is a fluffy white out, haven't scrolled around elsewhere yet to see if there is a glimpse of other activity.

To all Stag-gers, do enjoy yourself tomorrow night. I am currentlyy doing a fairly usual "working in London" stint but my flight to the wet and mossy northern side of Hadrian's Wall and a need to go on holiday at 5pm Thursday has conspired to force me into the sensible decision of not attending and dealing with the fallout of the mother-of-all hangovers.

Cloud aplenty across all the sweet spots we'd all wish were clear. Another five days before the next bout of Sentinel fun.

PS. Good evening all.

PS. Good morning all

Today's satellite update will be touch and go with a lot of swirling cloud. Fingers crossed, all we need is the slimmest of slivers to catch a glimpse.

......and for those with Level 2, what was that after hours 2,500,000 share trade yesterday really all about?

@Bamps, water bore hole makes sense, and thank you for skipping the opportunity to educate me on the geology of what makes a good bore hole, specially on a Sunday morning..... ;-)
There seems to be all sorts of one-off random distant drill locations for most tenements, HAV and Scallywag included.

@ProfQ, if we are in the business of giving credit it was nice to see Value_Seeker starting this thread - I got my education on the usefulness of the radar from Value_S many months ago, so much so that I now think they are more informative than the daylight images specially for early stage exploration.

You are 100% correct ProfQ, there is indeed a spot shining brightly on the radar (which is indeed Sentinel 1). I wonder what set of co-ordinates I was following last night? Can't even blame the beer goggles as I had a cup of tea in hand after a busy day.

The prep for the pads seems to have happened on around the 20th April.

I think I may have been checking on the area between the two dune lines just to the north in my periodic routine of spot hunting. There seemed to prep works there a while back - unless I always had Outamind out of place in my own mind.

I need to work out where Rudall is too.... Yet more lines crossing vast expanses of red sand. As you say, thankfully the dunes are like fingerprints.

Had a look at all of the co-ordinates discussed on this thread this evening but using the handy radar image..... and on a full sized screen.

The only one that possibly has machinery on it is the one |600m east of the HAV box cut. Everything else seems to be ground disturbance showing prep works. Usefully both daylight and radar images were gathered within hours of each other on the 20th so are a true representation of where equipment is.....

I thought it was the start of a very large paperclip.

Well if the Aztecs can draw monkeys in the Nasca Desert...?