RDN (ASX) Ann: XRD confirms high Spodumene content at Andover South

Originally posted by lindentree: ↑

bigkev14...
agreed... i used to work for a company called geotechnics and part of the job was planning access routes to drill sites eg. at hillside station, the very country where a lot of these lithium prospects are...

(after all the preliminaries you mentioned... then.... there's physical access)...

1...geological team interpreting air photography plan a route.
2... 4 wheel drive access to trace and "flag" the route.
3...where 4 wheel drive access is impossible, foot access is necessary, with camping gear, food, water and pegs etc for overnight stay at your destination if you can reach it in a day.
4... call in helicopter and a few selected dozer contracters to quote on the access track and if it's even possible. (the contractor will have to know the capabilities of drill rigs and the grade/slope of tracks that rigs can traverse).
5...drive the contractors to a suitable level landing site as close as you can get to the prospect.
6...if the helicopter is a 2 seater fly each of the geological crew and the contractors over the planned route one at a time to finalize the size of dozer needed, the route and prices.
7...the sucessful tenderer will then have to mobilize as close as they can get to the prospect with a low loader and then crawl the dozer overland from that point.
8...after all that the drilling contracter has to drive over the access track before mobilizing in the event they can or cant risk their machinery on the job.

and that is why you find companies like tmb (tambourah) drilling for the 3rd time on useless targets when other areas go undrilled...(because they dont have targets worth going to all that trouble for).
this company rdn is a carbon of tmb in it's mo, they haven't got serious targets so dont expect any worthwhile drilling in the near future... and why i have to laugh when i see tmb uses a helicopter just to look for pegmatites.

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No Moose pasture in that area pretty flat, give me a D10 and I could carve out a footy field in a hour or two, about 30 or so minutes from Karratha and around 20 mins from Roebourne so I don't see your take on choppers, we are not talking Canada here!
There are around a dozen rigs spinning bits a few Kms away on AZS's ground and more to come from others in the area.
The photo I can see has two 4wds parked up around half a K or so if I'm not mistaken.
I will pass on your comments about TMB to Rita when she gets back from South West Connect Conference, don't know about using choppers, but if geos out there are not using drones to video areas looking for Gossans, outcrops, pegs etc then they need to take their Super and retire as you can only cover minimal ground on foot kicking rocks, use technology to define a target then get the chipping hammer out.
SQM must have seen something to throw $3.5 m into their tin!

Cheers BK 14

Originally posted by lindentree: ↑

bigkev14...
agreed... i used to work for a company called geotechnics and part of the job was planning access routes to drill sites eg. at hillside station, the very country where a lot of these lithium prospects are...

(after all the preliminaries you mentioned... then.... there's physical access)...

1...geological team interpreting air photography plan a route.
2... 4 wheel drive access to trace and "flag" the route.
3...where 4 wheel drive access is impossible, foot access is necessary, with camping gear, food, water and pegs etc for overnight stay at your destination if you can reach it in a day.
4... call in helicopter and a few selected dozer contracters to quote on the access track and if it's even possible. (the contractor will have to know the capabilities of drill rigs and the grade/slope of tracks that rigs can traverse).
5...drive the contractors to a suitable level landing site as close as you can get to the prospect.
6...if the helicopter is a 2 seater fly each of the geological crew and the contractors over the planned route one at a time to finalize the size of dozer needed, the route and prices.
7...the sucessful tenderer will then have to mobilize as close as they can get to the prospect with a low loader and then crawl the dozer overland from that point.
8...after all that the drilling contracter has to drive over the access track before mobilizing in the event they can or cant risk their machinery on the job.

and that is why you find companies like tmb (tambourah) drilling for the 3rd time on useless targets when other areas go undrilled...(because they dont have targets worth going to all that trouble for).
this company rdn is a carbon of tmb in it's mo, they haven't got serious targets so dont expect any worthwhile drilling in the near future... and why i have to laugh when i see tmb uses a helicopter just to look for pegmatites.

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