Thats a good point about the lack of an XRF unit for the samples...

Thats a good point about the lack of an XRF unit for the samples from Little Duke LD18RC006 drill hole and something that I was going to comment on as well, anything coming out of the ground in 1m RC samples should be done with a portable XRF reading (particularly when drilling copper targets), I guess they were so used to drilling gold-only targets that they just sample everything mineralized and wait for the gold assays to come back from the lab (portable XRF technology unable to reliably detect Au at the ppm and g/T level but works fine for most base metals like copper, lead, zinc, cobolt and iron).

Take a look at the drill logs, I highly recommend looking at the drill logs while zooming in on the chip trays of the drill cuttings to get a feel for how the different minerals and colurs vary down the drill hole - they reported significant malachite from 22-28m and with anomalous Cu in surface rock chips along strike and in the region they could have reasonably anticipated some base metal mineralization (either as malachite copper carbonate and oxides or chalcopyrite copper sulphide. I noticed with the Calcite and Quartz veining (white minerals) in the geology logs (most veining from 55-57m, 79-88m, 108-113m, 116-122m and from 125-127m) that the zones adjacent to the veins contain the most voluminous sulphides (both iron and copper sulphides) and within the veins the sulphide drops in volume so best stuff is going to be adjacent to the white calcite and quartz veins. Once the gold grades come back will be interesting to see if the higher gold numbers are in the shalow oxidized areas near the start of the hole (where the historic workings are) or if there is also gold associated with either the copper sulphides (chalcopyrite) or maybe even with the iron sulphides (pyrite and/or pyrrhotite). I'm on record as not being a huge fan of the Cobalt story but we will undoubtably see the Co associated with the high pyrite parts of the hole.

Hopefully the XRF was out with the fieldies doing grid soil and rock samples lines to generate more drill targets?

And whats with the follow up hole LD18RC005 being a scissor hole drilled at -70 declination towards the west? The hole location for hole LD18RC005 has the hole almost on top of the strike extension of the historical workings so thats either going to drill the subvertical zone down dip or might even be drilling away from the mineralization. I have put a projection of hole LD18RC005 onto the current section from AMG announcement (hole 5 collar located only 15metres south and 13m east of hole 6 collar)


Whats that going to prove? Looks like a wasted drill hole to me.

As to your question of whats happening at Burra in SA - I am assuming that the drilling near Cloncurry will eventually be rained out and/or wet season stoppage. I recall that there was a lot of geophysical interpretation yet to come (out of AMG's hands) before that generates some drill targets, these will be fairly/very deep and high risk exploration holes so I'd prefer they get the geophysical modelling and interp right, before they unleash these deep and expensive drill holes..