For some background, there are some very interesting comments about the Ernest Giles prospect from Callum Baxter (Former Chief Geologist and Director at Greatland Gold), who played a major part in the original decision to take on Havieron and to 'drill deep', as well as the exploration and early drilling at Ernest Giles. This is part of an interview on 'GGPHelp', back in 2023:
"Ernest Giles has different segments of rocks in terms of just general age. The rocks in the Paterson are Proterozoic age and the rocks in Ernest Giles are Archean age, so they're much older and... but all the rocks in the goldfields in Western Australia are of Archean age. So now nearly every single greenstone belt within the Archean of Western Australia post gold to some level of concentration, Kalgoorlie actually in particular is a Super Giant and at Ernest Giles it's the last unexplored Greenstone Belt in Western Australia and it's under a plus 100 meters of cover. And Greatland has a large landholding out there, which is just a matter of finding the deposit."
"...We're looking for a plus 5-million-ounce deposit. Because really, we know with Greatland’s dynamic, it was always about not just finding 100,000 ounces or even a million ounces. It was always about finding deposits that were actually going to shift the needle for even a major player on the planet. So, we're always striving to find big deposits in fertile areas. And that that's the logic behind exploration in the Paterson and exploration at Ernest Giles.So, we're looking for plus 5-million-ounce deposits and they have a certain fingerprint and using certain exploration techniques, you should be able to detect whether they, whether you whether they're present in that terrain or not. And I believe the work that Greatland’s done to date have ticked that box to show that there's a high probability that there's plus 5Moz worth of gold in that area."
"And it's just a matter of carrying out further exploration to hone in on it. Now we've had plus one gram per tonne intercepts in the basement. That's at Ernest Giles already, and that is just from some very, very broad spaced vertical RC drill holes. So, it's just a matter of latching onto the, the main system now, which just means more drilling effectively."
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