GGPChat

Morning all,

First image from Paddysat to be uploaded to the new forum. There is not one for yesterday or today yet so this one's from the 25th.

I've circled the three new pads to the North - they are active on the first two now and the third one has been cleared and the sump created but I don't think they are drilling there yet. I think they have changed tack from last year and will be directly targeting the N/S dolerite dyke this year.
It will probably be a lot later in the year before we get the results from these drill holes but fact they have committed funds to drill these after the results from last year is very positive IMO.

ATB - Paddy

Cheers Paddy.

Great to have you on board.

Hi Paddy.
Thanks for that image. This section of the website is going to be very useful in helping us to see what is going on at ground level.

Thanks Paddy, fingers crossed.

Excellent work paddy

Two images from the Artemis web site.
The 3D image shows the targets following the Dyke northwards.
The black arrow is where I’ve shown a target that drill 153 may have been targeting.

The plan indicates the Zipa pad positions.
If you compare the Paddysat with this one you can see it looks as though they haven’t given up on Zipa.
The green dotted line to the right is where the Dyke is .
My green line further right is where I believe the Dyke is at c1,000m below surface due to its incline.
That’s why I couldn’t understand why they drilled westwards with Havieron North and not eastwards, they must have some survey information that’s not been made public

@Bamps
What's written in the teenie tiny text at the end of the arrow just to the right of Apollo 3?

I'm never gonna see a fixed radar image, 5% purchase agreement signed, nor bankable Feasibility Study cos I'll be blind shortly unless I sort out my default font screen size as instructed elsewhere.

strudel wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 11:08 pm @Bamps
What's written in the teenie tiny text at the end of the arrow just to the right of Apollo 3?

I'm never gonna see a fixed radar image, 5% purchase agreement signed, nor bankable Feasibility Study cos I'll be blind shortly unless I sort out my default font screen size as instructed elsewhere.

Reads as follows:

"This hole intersected several zones of particularly encouraging geology on the edge and within a ~54m interval of an altered diorite intrusion. This hole has been plugged at 504M and will be re-entered and pushed deeper"

Hope that helps - ATB RA

Hi Strudel
From what I can gather, Alistair was a bit down in their last RNS, emphasis now is following the Dyke to the north and south ie Enterprise west.
Not sure if they have given up on Apollo I hope not

Morning Bamps

Thanks for the large font.



The Sentinel images implied that Artemis had done something back at (or very close to) the most easterly of the three Apollo holes when they returned a few weeks ago. Without the radar image it is if course very hard to say definitely if they did or didn't drill. They may just have cleared some scrub or tidied up some debris.

AC may be a wee bit "down" because he bought shares at about 2.2p, did his interview with BottleR and the price has slumped further, debatable if it is down to general gold exploration market malaise or specific to what they are doing and reporting.

Also he may have already seen field reports from the location of the drill that broke last season that they returned to complete, plus the additional first results from the new hole closer to the fault line. They do have the XRF gadget in hand. Coupled with GGP finding Zipa 1 & 2 were dud for gold seekers, however great they were for geologists seeking potentially good gold bearing rocks, AC might have the dawning realisation that he's gonna have to craft another upbeat RNS with promise of jam tomorrow so he can get more money for drilling.

His other remaining undrilled targets to the north (Juno? Voyager?) were going to be increasingly difficult to get a drill rig to because of those pesky sand dunes. And the Enterprise Series targets (pun intended) to the south are perhaps not the highest priority / dead cert after all, as I suspect the underlying fault lines, geology and cover depth make them even higher risk to drill. It always struck me as curious that over the now probably three or four years of seeing far flung activity on the radar and daylight images there was never anything further south of HAV than the first dune other than a lot of sterilisation drilling for choosing where to put the decline.

If GGP didn't go there why should Artemis take that risk? I think AC has better fish to fry with their other more accessible tenements in Western Oz.

Yet, Enterprise is the one AC is most excited about.

Hi Strudel
Enterprise West is on the Havieron fault line/ very close to the Dyke and near the Moodoo seismic line showing reflections in the strata.
It’s also not deep cover, I will find the map of the contours of the Anketell licence
Enterprise East is deep cover

This is the licence that Newmont/Newcrest had

You can see the contours running north to south of the base of the cover.
The bunching up in the south indicates a very steep drop

Think I'm reading the lines differently....
Agreed Enterprise East will be under 400m or more of cover.
Enterprise West looks to me to still be on the eastern side of the tight set of depth contours, so it is probably more close to 400m under rather than 200m or less?

Did rummage around a bit more last night trying to find other maps for the depth of cover without success. Probably have to go back to 2018 or before.... then I thought I should do things outdoors while Scotland is still in "high summer" so donned the second fleece and ventured out.

Hi Strudel
You may be right I’m not sure only drilling will tell us the cover depth.
I haven’t found any other information in that southern area apart from the seismic survey which is probably the only source.

That arrow on the lower image marks the boundary of ARV /Ggp
That scales at just under 400m
Nimitz we know is around 530m
The next border to the left of ARV and Rio is around 350m
Those contours on that plan may not have had the information at the time to define them at this boundary