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170km away!?!

.....although for some that's within range for their nearology games.

Took a couple of attempts to load.

Can't believe there's a square inch of desert anywhere near HAV that hasn't already been claimed! Or has someone not renewed their rights cos they can't afford to pay?

Has CB been spending quality time rummaging through the old historic drill reports again?

Patience....

Missing trades? That was JerryS topping up again.
;-)

Up from here on. I just entered a very slow sell od some dullards, send written confirmation in snail mail, transfer out of cash between two SIPP providers.

There's no way GGP is going to stay this low while that transaction is happening..... Sod's Law.

Google Sentinel EO Browser
It will open set to Rome Italy
Type inTelfer Mine in the search box
From the drop down left hand menu search tick Sentinel 1&2
The green looking images ever 12 days are the radar images
Click on the 13th
The big cluster of lights is the Telfer Mine,
zoom in slowly till you see two dots of lights to the north east - that is HAV
When you have zoomed in to HAV you can go back on the Discover tab, redo search and pick a sentinel 2 daylight image (I suggest something with 0% our from a couple of weeks ago)
When you load it up it will have preserved your location and zoom factor from the radar image.

You asked for a fish,
I gave you a fishing rod and told you where to find the pond.

I think my eyes are more dodo than hawk....
Same issue with small screen reviewing.
Three dots of activity related to box cut activity. The old field camp seems larger than the new camp. Eight / nine active drills at HAV all arranged in an arc from the north-east CCW through the west to the south. I think I'm trying to say they ain't in the east.
Two curious dots at a drying out patch of Scallywag where there was one before. Maybe they make sandcastles to amuse themselves as the evening cools?

I was thinking we could judge Scallywag part 2 results arrival from when our eastern neighbours get their results. Drilling stopped at similar times. This great theory was shot down when their most recent RNS said they were using Radio Hill labs, not Perth.

What are we going to do in 2022 when all the infill / growth drilling will be happening underground?

Let's hope the Juri JV will start to resemble a Swiss cheese by then.... Satellite fascination can then get another spurt of life.

What are we going to do in 2022 when all the infill / growth drilling will be happening underground?

Let's hope the Juri JV will start to resemble a Swiss cheese by then.... Satellite fascination can then get another spurt of life.

I did laugh when I saw,after days of waiting, a vast stretch of crisp red baked Paterson, with the tip of a wisp of cloud beautifully draped over HAV. Perfect to obscure the view.

.....it could be argued Sunday's radar is always more informative than daylight images for proving where they are actively drilling.

Patience.....

The proof will be on the Sentinel images soon enough - my money would go on Atlas, then Apollo in that order if I were a gambler.

Oh, hold on - I am a gambler.....

Going by my previous form the first Sentinel image in March will therefore show a rig at Apollo.

Not too sure if any of NC's drilling on our side of the boundary will be much use to Artemis - all activity to date has been a good 500m away - and the season would almost be over before we get core drill results back from the lab, presuming delays persist.

Morning AM90,
The Artemis update is a bit heavy going to read pre-breakfsst, however.... I have cast one eye over it briefly.....the nearology seems to continue.

Sounds like they ain't going back to Nimitz after all, with nothing from ionic leach soil samples and more analysis of geology, that still looks like kitchen worktop patterns to me, due from another lab. Nothing to date has been spectacular with very skinny veins of interest being mentioned. It was interesting to hear they their diamond cores never even got to the Radio Hill lab until early Jan and no results are due for 6-8 weeks from arrival there (? Did I read those timings right?)

So lots of pretty pictures to enjoy - Apollo and Atlas now seem to have more going for them, specially if Artemis think they can drill three holes for less than $1million.

Their two named but not marked up new potential targets near Atlas are interesting, specially if they are actually reachable between all the sand dunes. The fault running north from HAV may yet prove to be the rich ground.

There hasn't been much additional work at either of the Enterprise targets to the south - no I ain't volunteering to speed the process by going out in 30degree heat and following a GPS line for a couple of kilometres bagging dusty desert soil every 50m or so....

I would presume most folks try to avoid drilling right on the boundary of their tenement as the neighbours will probably benefit to the tune of a chunk of any find - so they get some free exploration results. Roll on Apollo. ;-)

PG, Of your two possible Growth Drilling locations I think the north western one may be where the "mystery black square" appeared a long time ago?

We never did work out what it was for, it seemed to have some sort of activity at it (no drill rig though) during the following weeks/months. I always wonder if it's something to do with the life&soul activities to keep the field camp going? Can't imagine they're allowed a compost heap or allowed to burn rubbish but....what do they do with their poo?

There is also a new cut through the sand dunes to get to this northern side more directly.

The more south west activity on the road is I think a spot that we noticed way way way back in the very very early days of a full on drill programme. Again, we noticed ground disturbance at the time but never a rig.

The radar will be our friend to give better clues as to where they are drilling. 12 days is a long time between updates though.

Patience......

Applying today's mining technology open at depth is only useful to us (that is, we can remove the ore) from a maximum depth of circa 4,000m.

As I don't know much about the practicalities of mining I have to rely on what I think I've read, so I believe these are South African mines that may just be following rich veins not block-caving.

Funnily enough the open at depth below 4,000m may not be of any real concern if you consider we will have at least a decade and maybe two of block-caving in order to remove the reachable ore. There is every chance that technology will have advanced during the decades and the deeper ore may become reachable.

The only potential fly in the ointment is if we discover the ore body below 4,000m veers away at an angle and is the ground below some critical mine infrastructure, like the entrance decline! It may turn out not to be worthwhile building a new relocated decline in those circumstances.

The limiting factor may be the heat at depth. You can use all the remote controlled machinery you like but when it breaks the human has to go in to sort it.

....and the prize goes to....

Jet47

For the Worst Joke of the Week.

Off the scale in its nerdiness.... That'll be why I laughed.

NDVI - Normalised Difference Vegetation Index

.....I just clicked on the down arrows next to the setting and the explanation was on screen.

It does look pretty, maybe some alternative wallpaper for the spare room?

The radar image from the 1st will be your friend. You can load it and today's image and the last decent previous daylight image into the compare function. Slide the sliders around and see what is active now and what is new and what is being prepared to be new.

Best done on a laptop not smartphone....if you value your eyesight and sanity.

I know why the RNS' figures are so good.

After years and years and years of patience I finally gave up and sold a quarter of my original holding last week. I'd sold half last year.....

Just having a closer look at the Scallywag signal that PG reckoned is road traffic. Not entirely convinced.... doesn't seem to be anywhere near an established track.... it does seem to be on the edge of a temporary water feature or something that transformed in the desert rain.

Thought we'd seen one of these oddities out that way before on a radar image. 27th Dec was the date of that previous one, although it was justifiably close enough to a track, a good kilometre further west, to be called road traffic.

Nice to see 9 HAV drill rigs active....

Crack on guys.