Ann: Significant Gold Results from Surface at Mt Stirling, page-120

Manabouttown, I've no problem with answering questions if I can help. I've been gold prospecting for nearly 40 years.

I live for gold actually. When I was a kid, other kids were playing with friends, whilst I was going down mines.

I went many places I should not have gone, Inc down the long tunnel incline at wallhalla, 800m from memory when bhp had it, the central Deborah and also the real mine very deep under sovereign Hill, not the tourist one.

Theres even a gold mine on top of Mt Hotham. I bet people did not know gold exists there. Called the red Robin.

Those were the good days as from memory I was not much older than 10 when I found my first gold and today no way a youngster gets to go so deep underground.

I actually did wish to be a Geologist, but a certain event altered my career path.

Soon we know our fate on the jorc, the 3 assays due looking at it are diamonds. The prior diamonds have given good widths and grades, far better than the shallower rc.

We I think are in for a cracker of a year when they start drilling around 500m deep because these shoots have a source and it ain't at the surface based on drilling thus far.