First up, my beard is coming along really well.
If you want to know where I am based, copy in these co-ordinates for Raven Camp in Google Earth. 58° 8'45.78"N 103°45'17.10"W and presto! Here’s some shots taken by Christine, one of the geologists of the camp and drill site from the air.
Today was a big day to go and see one of our projects called West Bear. This is a high grade shallow resource which will make quite a lot of coin. The company is doing scoping / pre-feasibility on the project at the moment. The consultants went out first in the chopper and Brendo, Leo and I had to wait for him to return to take us out. What do you do waiting for a chopper? Machete throwing competition, of course. We found an old knife as the pad is near an old camp, so we perfected our knife throwing skills. Lots of fun.
Brendo and I got to West Bear, only accessible in winter as the peat / swamps / muskeg freezes then and access is great. In summer it is a different story! We walked the area that was drilled and discussed elements of the pit, infrastructure etc. An amazing thing was to see casing (drill rods) sticking up to 3m in the air. When water melts and freezes it has this ability to shatter hard competent rock and lift heavy pipe incrementally out of the ground. Weird! When we flew out, we traversed over the core farm, piles of wooden boxes out in the scrub.
On the way home we flew over Wollaston Lodge again and saw a couple of boats working the area we caught the walleye. It was only a small detour to go this way!
That afternoon, we reviewed core from the West Bear project and opened up the highest grade hole. This one runs at 25% U3O8 over a metre and was loaded with pitchblende (uraninite) and yellow uranophane!! Not one to hold by the testes for too long! It was good to see high grade ore and other holes had cobalt and nickel bloom, pink and green secondary oxides forming on the core.
If you want to know where I am based, copy in these co-ordinates for Raven Camp in Google Earth. 58° 8'45.78"N 103°45'17.10"W and presto! Here’s some shots taken by Christine, one of the geologists of the camp and drill site from the air.
Today was a big day to go and see one of our projects called West Bear. This is a high grade shallow resource which will make quite a lot of coin. The company is doing scoping / pre-feasibility on the project at the moment. The consultants went out first in the chopper and Brendo, Leo and I had to wait for him to return to take us out. What do you do waiting for a chopper? Machete throwing competition, of course. We found an old knife as the pad is near an old camp, so we perfected our knife throwing skills. Lots of fun.Brendo and I got to West Bear, only accessible in winter as the peat / swamps / muskeg freezes then and access is great. In summer it is a different story! We walked the area that was drilled and discussed elements of the pit, infrastructure etc. An amazing thing was to see casing (drill rods) sticking up to 3m in the air. When water melts and freezes it has this ability to shatter hard competent rock and lift heavy pipe incrementally out of the ground. Weird! When we flew out, we traversed over the core farm, piles of wooden boxes out in the scrub.On the way home we flew over Wollaston Lodge again and saw a couple of boats working the area we caught the walleye. It was only a small detour to go this way!That afternoon, we reviewed core from the West Bear project and opened up the highest grade hole. This one runs at 25% U3O8 over a metre and was loaded with pitchblende (uraninite) and yellow uranophane!! Not one to hold by the testes for too long! It was good to see high grade ore and other holes had cobalt and nickel bloom, pink and green secondary oxides forming on the core.
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