agree6 Apr 2018 09:31
its good to be conservative. However the latest rns clearly indicates/says that the new mineralisation to the sw of grandao is greater than the current jorc.
This would indicate greater than 5mt. They were expecting grandao to be bigger anyway when they released the 5mt jorc . All the long length holes to the sw were drilled after this, so its safe to assume the new mineralisation will be greater than 5mt, considerably if hes prepared to say this early on.
Drill holes 66, 67 etc are all to the sw looking to extend this new mineralisation.
We need to see howm uch drilling is done this year, but i honestly do think that a jorc of 7mt old grandao and 10-12mt new grandao is realistic.
agree with eur, this will fall into the 90% of aim exploration targets that never reach production.
Re scoping, tbh new resource is kind of irrelavent. Even the biggest spodumene mine in the world only produces around 1mt a year (from memory), so we will be nothing close to that, we have enough lithium for many years anyway. All we want really is as much high grade, surface consistent lithium as possible for an early payback. imho grandao 2 might well fall into this category, considering its location.