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I had a good look at what Artemis were doing on the last satellite a couple of days ago - they are still at their first hole in the east. They are due to be working on our northern boundary and southern boundary of their "box" that surrounds 3 sides of HAV. No sign of anything on either of these boundaries yet - does this mean they are going to 2,000m with their first hole having seen what HAV is delivering at these depths or just to the planned 800m? I suspect the former cos they have been there for weeks now, and if the cores glisten I guess they would just keep going.

As for their red blob "targets" shown in their reports there is one that NC have prodded with a drill a couple of times half way from HAV towards the northern boundary as Paddy notes. Artemis shows these targets as discontinuous - but if breccia doesn't have a magnetic signature (? - forgive me if I have been reading geological details incorrectly - it ain't my subject) then there may be a chance that there are bits of breccia following the underlying fault lines - one going all the way through Scallywag and a second split branch that goes north into Artemis' tenement.

@Mush,
What's French for "stoked"?

Brace yourselves / get a drink:

Went to the Greatland website to get the JORC PDF. Page 25 of 26 had the info I wanted - the starting point of the current family favourite - core HAD084.

Did the geodetic conversion to eastings and northerns to get it identified on the Sentinel images and then went through the short history of HAD084 since it first appeared in daylight and radar images, recording when I thought I could see a drill (daylight) or had a radar echo and created this:

Pad prep works 24th June 2020
Drill rig on pad 29th June
No drill 4th July
Drill back 9th July
12th July radar signal (faint)
Drill on pad 14th July
Cloudy image 19th July
24th July radar signal (faint)
Drill on pad 24th July, 29th July, 3rd Aug (faint)
5th Aug radar signal (faint)
Drill gone 8th Aug,
Drill back 13th Aug (faint)
17th Aug radar signal
Drill 18th Aug
Drill gone 23rd Aug, 28th Aug,
29th Aug no radar signal
Drill still gone 2nd Sept, 7th Sept,
10th Sept no radar signal
Drill still gone 12th Sept
Drill back 17th Sept,
22nd Sept radar signal *
Drill on pad 22nd Sept, 27th Sept (double drill?),
4th Oct no radar signal ^
Drill on pad 12th Oct,
16th Oct no radar signal
Drill on pad 17th Oct, 22nd Oct, 27th Oct
28th Oct no radar signal

So, basically it is hard to tell from daylight images if you are seeing a drill at any particular HAV hole or remnants from previous drilling activities - the radar signal is more conclusive. HAD084 they were still definitely drilling on 22nd Sept (* item above) but was gone by the 4th Oct (^ marked item).

So it would seem Newcrest, presumably with all their onsite technology, can get results from cores and into a news release within 5 weeks?

Or they stopped drilling it at its 1876m reported depth in mid-August (17th /18th) before returning to do more a month later (return date the 17th Sept to do another 3 weeks of drilling) in order to go deeper yet? Or to drill a side hole on a different angle?

Phew!

Beer time.

@ValueSeeker
Nice to see you here VS, no doubt reading every word of NC's latest drill results......or should I say every figure.....

The radar image is out.
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=14&lat=-21.72722&lng=122.68574&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&datasetId=S1_AWS_IW_VVVH&fromTime=2020-10-28T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2020-10-28T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=7_SAR-URBAN&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2Ff2068f4f-3c75-42cf-84a1-42948340a846

Busy in the north east at HAV - we now know why activity picked up there several weeks back from NC's results.

Scallywag
No Kraken activity but two rigs aligning with activity seen in daylight images. Including the new location to the north west of camp which I still think is curiously close to a previous Scallywag hole, specially for a very early exploration phase of first few drill holes.

The eastern neighbours are still at the same first spot - been there for weeks now - I wonder if they are digging to 2000m with a blunt diamond core drill? Their drill program only talks about going to 800m though. My eyes are peeled on when they move to Apollo. With slow progress to the east they may not get there before the seasons change. One good downpour could snarl things up for them.

Mush, Now I'm really jealous of you.....
All made surf-able by the invention of the jet ski.

I'm getting first refusal on buying a section of souvenir HAV core from the NC core shed. I want a metre of that HAD0084 to stick above the mantlepiece - the one with the 637 g/t.

Trust me, I can afford to pay good money for that!

@SpinR
.... be nice to get a new radar image too. One was taken today (28th) but it won't be loaded until some point tomorrow.... and probably late on. It's a good way of being certain where the rigs really are. Sumps and holes are tricky on the daylight image.

So folks, if we can get the co-ordinates of HAD085 onto a satellite image and then roll back in time to work out when it was first drilled.... we can presume they are part way through reporting that hole in these results.

Then roll forward through the sequence of images since to work out just how many days / weeks and possible drill locations we are still awaiting results for?
We did notice more activity focused in the east earlier this week.

I'm also curious about the additional isolated cloud (way back when) on CB's screensaver... it was just south of the original field camp I reckon from radar image signals, and was either a cheeky early probe of Scallywag or another of these breccias?

Then there's the fact that NC are funding our eastern neighbours. They must suspect that breccias could be scattered in pockets all over the place.

Maybe I should have a beer tonight as a pre-emptive celebration? I'm getting used to seeing my GGP holding go up (and down) by my annual salary before I even manage my first morning tea break at work during the last month or so. In the 2p days it always crossed my mind that GGP may do very very very well and I may be in this situation. Bit surreal to be here for real.....

Try 0.3m at 637 g/t Au - they drilled through a nugget the size of a football in HAD084!

That adds 50% of depth onto where we think we have good grades.....

That's JJ's "drilling to greater than 2,000m" from this afternoon.

And of course the words "open at depth" are still in there.

Although the radar image will be gathered on the 28th we won't see it uploaded before the 29th.

I wonder what other news could possibly fill our idle hours before then?

;-)

Looks like HAV activity is to the north east, and the Swiss cheese beyond the dune in the south west shows activity migrating east towards the dune bridge.

Scallywag has the Kraken drill to the west still active, and more activity on an existing spot just south east of the field camp - no new drill sites.

Nothing new with our eastern neighbours.....

All of the above is viewed during a rushed lunch hour - others may spot more.

Has any clocked our neighbours to the east? I'm sure they said they were diamond core drilling too.

They have been at their first hole for more than ten days. They will have more cover (circa 400m) than Scallywag to go through plus at least 900m to match reported HAV depths - plus whatever extra depth the HAV drills are still hitting ore.....

Does anyone know what a reasonable core drill speed is - I appreciate you can zip through the 400m of cover but I'm guessing drilling and retrireving the interesting cores below that is a slower and more methodical process.

Mush, you may be on the wrong side of the border with your dream residence. Tomar is "to take" in Portuguese, but in Spanish it is the more amenable verb "to drink". Are you far from the Spanish border? The local town may be more pleasant when viewed from the east....

@TmT
You're four step easy plan is OK up to a point.
End of point 2 to be precise.

I've been trying for weeks, but just can't do step 3 & 4.....
1&2 are dead easy.....
End result GGP clutter all over trading accounts, ISAs and SIPPs.

I keep telling myself the MRE will sort all of this and my mouse will finally reach the sell button.

Aye right.

Cross board ramping.....
BZT is being mentioned on other boards as the next ""

And those who do no research pile in - Ponzi style.

There was a new radar update on the 16th....

HAV activity is all central and to the south and east. This is a bit odd if we are still open to the north west? Could it be that at depth the ore slants below 1200m toward the south and east.....

Scallywag a bit of new activity near a visible hole which is odd. I thought intial exploration would only drill a well spaced line of holes....

Our eastern neighbours are still drilling their southern hole, and no doubt spending their evenings in their field camp and gazing to the western sunset hoping for HAV like discoveries.

Lost the first version of this post. Apologies if it has appeared twice.

Ah, riggers.... Now they are a warm and comfortable boot. Have a pair poised by the door in case of any urgent need to scuttle out to the bins or compost, or indeed to greet the postie on the drive...and try and persuade them not to deliver any bills.

The sentinel 1 radar images are probably easier to use to spot activity and count to 9 drills. Or indeed ten or eight. They can sometimes be hard to interpret. I reckon on average I see nine....

I imagine that rigs do get lowered for maintenance, and possibly even periodically return to the compound in the middle of HAV for a good look at....

I also suspected they were drilling right beside their central compound but that is virtually impossible to be certain of.

MJ,

The proposed road route out of HAV is a neat compromise between the amount of new road they'll have to construct and the number of sand-dunes to cross (they are between 5m and 15m high, and if you think about cutting through one, are probably prone to filling back in with prevailing winds).

Plus the small detail of passing close to Scallywag and Blackhills on the way to Telfer.