You never know kennas, they may have an insder on the ASF forum..
It was good to get an overview of their gold assets in Saudi, I have to admit I wasn't very familiar at all with some of their lesser-known prospects.
It's interesting that a lot of these anomalies they talk about have not been adequately follwed up by various parties over the years. At Bari for example, those two percussion holes drilled in the 60's in the 'Trench 13' area returned absolutely stunnning results of 39m @ 7.32g/t and 84m @ 6.75g/t, and were seemingly open at the bottom of hole. That's 84m!...
You have to think that either the previous operator felt they had closed off this mineralisation
These high-grade veins/shoots can be tricky as hell though, I've seen a lot of drill data which initially suggested that the Mother of all Mother Lodes had been hit, only to find that the area around it was completely dead. I suppose the catch would be to have a sufficient density of them to make the area amenable to open-pit mning, like CGG mentioned.
The rock-chip sampling carried out at Murrayjib in 1937-38, yes that's right.. 70 years ago, averaged 5.1 g/t for the entire program. Again there is no way that comparable results in Australia would have remained untested for 70 years. It also sounds like an interesting area. The Hail prospect is another area with no work since 1985, despite 33 rock-chip samples from qtz veins and altered wallrock averaging 3.2 g/t Au.
Hopefully we will see some spectacular results during 2009-10 from some of this ground, I think what makes it exciting is that CGG probably even don't know what to expect from these prospects.
jman