Member Info for strudel

@Arabjim
You are more than welcome Jim. Thanks for letting me know.

I can lend you a shot of the black "mourning" cardigan if the chat strays to that sport where you kick the round ball between the two upright sticks. Sorry, I'll let you move on from the weekend.

@threeturn
Nice to hear from you ....hope all is well in the world of gold investments, plastics and getting fluids from A to B. I probably know the answer to some of those topics. We'll maybe see you again at the next event, if we all make it through Bamps' geology talk unfrazzled.

Reminder and invite for all:

The wheels have been oiled and we have another date for a Stirling meet. Guest of honour is Bamps so please bring your geology questions, favourite print outs, coloured pens or just an enthusiastic attitude to dolorite dykes, breccias, ore percentages and relative densities. (He has permission from Mrs Bamps to be in Scotland so you could bring a cutting from the garden or hardy seedling for her Malvern garden as a “thank you”.)

The same back room (“The Lounge”) at the Birds & Bees has been booked for the evening of GGP chat from 6.30pm onwards. All welcome, just do a quick reply to this message so I can prime the venue with approximate numbers. If you are not familiar with the venue it does drink, nice food, is just over a mile from Stirling train station and is the mid-way compromise between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The Sentinel-1B (the satellite that did the radar images, before it went ker-futt) black mourning cardigan will be making another outing, so you will recognise me…..

@TheDoors,

I was wondering if timing a Stirling meet to the release of an RNS with drill results was a good idea or not if our starting point was the pub.

Turns out I think we will be toasting HAD005's 4th birthday - or be very close to the day they were drilling it!

Anything that Stroud lot can do .....so can we in Stirling....

Bumping up the thread again....

Bumping this thread back onto view....

Hi Davielad

Nice to hear from you.....

I like to think I correctly scrutinised the footie fixture list and haven't double booked you (again) for the September meet.

Be nice to see you again MDC1 & Fun.....

Bumping this post to the top.....

The wheels have been oiled and we have another date for a Stirling meet. Guest of honour is Bamps so please bring your geology questions, favourite print outs, coloured pens or just an enthusiastic attitude to dolorite dykes, breccias, ore percentages and relative densities. (He has permission from Mrs Bamps to be in Scotland so you could bring a cutting from the garden or hardy seedling for her Malvern garden as a “thank you”.)

The same back room (“The Lounge”) at the Birds & Bees has been booked for the evening of GGP chat from 6.30pm onwards. All welcome, just do a quick reply to this message so I can prime the venue with approximate numbers. If you are not familiar with the venue it does drink, nice food, is just over a mile from Stirling train station and is the mid-way compromise between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The Sentinel-1B (the satellite that did the radar images, before it went ker-futt) black mourning cardigan will be making another outing, so you will recognise me…..

Sedecordle

Four times better than Quordle.

Or how about scrambling your brain with Crosswordle. Wordle in reverse.....

Well, now that I've ruined your weekend I'll be off.

JungleB
It may well be I have mis read your original scenario. Normally you do not know the PIN for your new card until it arrives - the card company assign you something at random. Are you saying you want it to be your favourite number*, which for any GGP holder is obviously 0005?

In that scenario the chance of your first random PIN that the card company sends actually being 0005 is one in ten thousand. The chance of the second PIN also being 0005 is one in ten thousand but the chance that both PINs match your favourite number is now the highly unlikely 10,000 times 10,000 or one in 100,000,000 (a hundred million).

*other favourite GGP numbers are available. I like 0084.

I came in out of the heat to stop my brain from melting - stupidly I thought I'd idly scroll through the weekend chat.

Chance & credit card numbers - let me add my two pence worth of oar in here.

The first card arrives with a four digit PIN. The PIN could be anything between 0000 and 9999. There are 10,000 possibilities in that range.

The second card arrives. It has a four digit PIN too, which is one of the 10,000 possible numbers between 0000 and 9999. When you look at the PIN for every one time it matches the first PIN, it won't match the other 9999 times. Hence one in ten thousand odds.

The dice analogy is not helpful. The correct use of the "two sixes" is better as expressed as, having thrown one dice (one in six possible outcomes) what is the chance of throwing a matching number with the second dice. Any match will do, you ain't necessarily looking for a six. One in six chance.

I'm going back out before we start discussing the classic "choose one of the possible three prizes in the boxes in front of you, where the game show host knows what is in each box, and on opening one of the prizes you didn't choose, asks if you want to change your mind".

The answer is "yes" change your mind.

I'm back away out to let my brain cool down.

PS Did anyone ask about nickel? I had trapped MagicTrades by a wall and let him bamboozle me with sulphides, breccias and 500 million years of geological sequences about the time he should've been tugging gently on SD's sleeve and broaching the subject.

Thanks to Cheshire Cheese (part 1) folks yesterday, nice to meet & mingle with others on the Great Land road trip, sorry I didn't manage to get round the whole group.

Sadly after the SD spiel I had to be mature and sensible and find an early ish train rather than do Cheshire Cheese part 2.

@All with an interest in The Leg of a Dog

The odd loop is within the "development envelope" and looks to be deliberately taking in a sliver of Story Hill, Breakaway. Looking at Sentinel this area looks to be a high ridge of something solid as you can see multiple drainage patterns from the centre of the east-west aligned ridge heading north-east or south-west. When rain falls on much of the sand in the district it looks like it soaks in and starts forming pools of standing water. So this looks quite different.

Looking at the rough location, half way between HAV and Telfer, I'm going speculate wildly (applying my engineering background - electronics) that this is a borrow pit where they are going to get all their more solid chunky bits of aggregate for road building / repairs. If you look at all the other parts of the route it crosses, sand plain or salt pan, both surfaces where any road will literally blow away it'll be hard to keep in good condition for heavy trucks.

Alternate theory would be that they are setting aside a chunk of high ground with a lovely view to the sunny north, away from flood risks, to build nests for a future night parrot colony in rocky outcrops. This is eco friendly mitigation for giving a couple of greater bilbys the hump and making a northern marsupial homeless with our road routing.

@BottleR, which dog leg do you mean?

@Bamps

What a relief. I can still admire that persistent drill pad south-west of Lake Havieron knowing it is adding knowledge of things at depth. And ain't infrastructure works!

@Bamps
Morning,
I sincerely hope I'm not getting over excited about a paste plant hole! When a drill appeared there yonks ago, specially one that is core drilling, I automatically presumed we were probing northern pod and even south east deeps. Would they not just do cheap and cheerful RC drilling for water bore holes? And paste passing holes? Or for the latter do they have to switch to core drilling to get down to the depths where the paste is required.

@ProfQ & Other Satellite Fans

Finally got a chance late yesterday to get to Sentinel. Blackhills was as discussed.

I had a look at HAV. I noted the pad south and a little west of Lake Havieron continues to be occupied - it has been for weeks.

South of the dune we now have no rigs. This area fell out of favour for weeks at a time previously.

Central and Eastern HAV continues to be a field of blotches with no discernible changes in the last fortnight.

.....and then we get to north of the dune, with Paddy's images. I'm never entirely convinced about the pads along the line of the dyke, specially to the northern end of our tenement where the terrain is very mottled.

I also note the neighbour's on the north still on previous pads so obviously drilling deep. They are somewhat "excitable" with photos (not lab results) of cores being released previously to the market - and then later having to admit they found no gold after lab results. I wonder if they have learned their lesson? Their share price has fallen by about a third since their boss bought shares on the open market and gave BottleR an interview - I'm not describing any connection with the latter event; there is a school of thought that says statistically directors lose money more often than not when they buy their own shares.

Lots of stuff to ponder before the next satellite update.....