First pass crunching of today's announcement.
One of the surprises just before getting this post together as I wondered about hole 18-146 shown on this image.
#146 looks a little out of place (152m hole drilled grid east at -55) but put it in context of the collars in today's announcement and some interesting holes could be coming for the south end of Minyari (as well as further north).:
There are a few other 2018/17 holes as well that were not as flash. Will see in a couple of months when results come out.
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Overview of Minyari drilling to date.
Yellow circles today's reported holes. Large circles holes with diamond tails with 216 in magenta.
I have taken off most of the sentinel interpreted sites. The recent ones for the southern magnetic area give some idea of the level of accuracy that can be achieved. Some either not drilled or wrong. Sites 41 and 42, as suspected, have more than one hole that couldn't be resolved easily from Sentinel.
I suspect sites 33 and 34 have been drilled but not reported (33 - 504D?).
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WACA coverage with results pending:
I was puzzled by the eastern tier of drill holes after spotting them on Sentinel. They are real and still a bit of a puzzle to me.
All will be revealed in due course. Testing for parallel lodes/structures? (too many holes for that IMO). Good coverage for a pit wall?
The deepest is #248 at 438m while this example section is for one of the shorter ones which shows the hole testing the upper level of the eastern trend and going out into poorly tested (untested? on this section) ground.
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The coverage of the southern Magnetic anomaly has gone from this in April.
To this announcement:
Won't be left wondering when results for these holes come in.
Hopefully they need to turn it into Australian cheese and keep going down vertically. Down plunge is quite ok too.
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In a post about the RC portion of Hole 216 I made an "off the cuff remark" that there is no apparent depth limit for known Au/Cu deposits in the Paterson (AFIK Telfer, Havieron, Winu and Calibre are all open at depth). Probably a tussle between Telfer and Havieron for the deepest at 1500-2000m below surface. Winu and Calibre 600+??
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Grade distribution - Narrow high grade zones yes- but they are statistically relevant high grade patches that will bulk out lower grade zones. Not dissimilar to what is seen in Havieron's wider intersections.
Some obvious similarities to Havieron but any detail comparisons are best left for several tens of millions of dollars worth of drilling more is put into here. If it is then there will be a lot to compare.
420m less of cover is obvious without any more drilling and gives Minyari a boost.
Eastern Tier drilling at WACA, South Minyari, magnetic units Stephen Power mentioned. Well worth 20+% jump in today's SP.
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(20min delay)
