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@PQ, PG et al,

Well done spotting the north of Scallywag pad preparations in the most recent Sentinel. The web appears to have mixed thoughts on whether it is on a Rio or Antipa tenement though. I have found conflicting maps online and never had the time to properly work out how to get the Western Australian government mining web portal to provide handy info.

Maybe it's safe to assume it's tight lipped Rio's exploration arm, as a junior explorer is more likely to trumpet their activities from the rooftops in a never ending need to be in the shop window trying to get others to pay for drill programmes.

Patience, just adds to the list of interesting lab results to be looking out for at the end of July.

Goliath now has three and a bit spots in a tight cluster....

Oh good, two cloudy images in April would've been unlucky!

Sadly I'm struggling to get a decent signal on the gadget this morning..... Shall have to admire it later today.

Satellite might be touch and go today - there's a lump of the fluffy stuff in the desert of Western Oz at the moment. Fingers crossed we get a wafer thin gap....

...all what a dog share this is, divide by a hundred to try and get those fractions of a penny where we languish back into penny share territory.

Why am I still here....?

Don't make any suggestions please, deep down I know who to blame.

OK, who was it that was naughty but didn't own up to it?

Now the whole class is getting triple geology as punishment early on a Sunday from Mr Bamps.

Joking aside I do recall the NC report saying how they recrunched the results - mainly cos they keep the top reading rather than disregarding it as a freak of nature.

I just revisited the SAR too and saw something very subtle. So went back to the sentinel 2 on the 15th and got this:

https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=15&lat=-21.46327&lng=122.59801&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&datasetId=S2L2A&fromTime=2021-04-15T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2021-04-15T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=1_TRUE_COLOR&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Fbd86bcc0-f318-402b-a145-015f85b9427e

The cloud is just out of the way.

Two very distinct white dots. Southern one gives the SAR echo.

Wonder if they have gone out to establish a field camp with lighter vehicles first?

Morning AM90

I was never convinced about this Goliath area in terms of it being drill or even human activity starting when it was discussed previously a week or two ago. I couldn't spot anything in the 14th's radar image either.

Those radar images are usually very good at spotting machinery out in the desert.....

I'm still gutted that the one trailing tendril of cloud in the whole thousands of miles of the Oz outback decided to drape itself firmly over HAV on the 15th, ruining a crisp daylight image. No rain hit Telfer during the near miss from the cyclone so I'm optimistic ground conditions are good to get mobilised.

I guess the resolution of the technology also improves over the years too....

.....and for the Sentinel fans out there today's daylight image covers all the crucial areas in and around HAV in an exceptionally thick fluffy trailing tendril of unfortunate cloud.

Darn and blast!

....and after a bit more rummaging on a very(!) small screen I can advise I cannot see any action on neighbouring tenements.

Sadly....

Patience patience patience....

To be clear the activity in the north is one isolated spot about 100m to the west of the explosives store, not the huge 50m by 100m new activity 800m to the west I have mentioned previously.

Just enjoying a radar image - and desperate for a daylight picture also due today.

The activity north of the dune line has finished at the first hole. Curiously there is a vague hint of something happening just west of the explosives store, no idea what at the mo, a daylight image may help.

Other than that activity continues beside Lake Havieron and through the middle of the site around the east and still with one rig across the south dune line. I think I can get to nine rigs.

@Reddirt
Morning, always nice to see you here.....
And also providing my mid-morning tea break reading material "minesonline.com".....

The weekend cyclone tracked further south so there was no rain at Telfer, so ground conditions locally should be OK. Temperatures are still 2degrees above average in the high 30s, dropping later this week.

We are due a double on Sentinel 1&2, both fresh images released on the 15th. Depending on how fast drill teams mobilise we may see some activity. Or not...

Patience.

ChrisB,
I agree with SpadeAS and find your approach to AIM shares in SIPPs odd.

- are you letting the tax tail wag the investment dog?

The next generation will thank you for an untouched SIPP if you manage to croak it before age 75.

In the interim I will continue to try and avoid dying, utilise the advantages of ISAs and SIPP contributions offsetting current tax liabilities in a balanced portfolio, safe in the knowledge that at some point in the next few decades I will inevitably wish I'd done the mix differently. Whilst grateful that I'm even in the position to have to consider CGT, ISA and SIPP investment limits and the implications of the SIPP lifetime allowance.

I'm ludicrously lucky. A lot of people wonder when they will be able to have a spare tin of beans in the cupboard.

Bamps,

Thank you for the clarification.....

I think I need to lie down in a dark room for a while before I re-read your reply.... Or maybe just drink more beer.

Right, another dumb question for guru's of NC's mining application (I wish I could work out where I've filed the PDF "safely")....

Today's satellite shows about three new drill locations, all in the north. The intriguing pad north of the dune is still there but no sign of anything else happening north of the dune drilling-wise....

However....

There is a new rectangle about 800m west of the explosives store. Looks to be about 100m by 50m in size. No idea what that could be unless I find the mine plans....

Did our mining prep works include an airstrip?

Idly flicking through old Sentinel 2 images and discovered two 400m long, 30m wide parallel strips seemingly cleared on 6th March just north of the sewage plant, north of the new field camp.

Apologies if this has been discussed and clarified before. No idea what these areas could be for, unless they are expanding the sewage plant to a colossal scale?!?

Bamps, head spinning is when you hit us with a geology post at half 6 in the morning. Some of those 4,000 posts have been brutal for some of us!

I can just about cope with a summary narrative of our prospects just after 8 on a Saturday morning whilst I await a Sentinel update and move towards the kettle.