I was reading through the recent CQT anouncements to get a fresh feel for where the announcement to be released monday (pre market) will be heading.
I was alittle worried that the DOW was going to tank last night and that the announcement would be released on a weak day in the market (as has happended with previous releases of CQT...)
Following is a summary of what i found in my readings in relation to the future of CQT:
* CQT is presently undertaking pre-feasibility work with a view to developing an open pit mining operation
* Roadshow and powerpoint are long overdue
* Resource to be upgraded to measured status.
* It is planned to complete this infill program by the end of August, and to then compile the data for new Resource Estimation and Pit Optimisation.
* Scoping study has been commenced
* In some resent holes, gold content is increasing towards the bottom of holes and there is substantial evidence of a major breccia pipe or diatreme.
* It is possible that the entire 1km diameter circular magnetic target presented in previous announcements is actually due to a massive breccia pipe.
* If the circular target is a massive brecca pipe, it begs the question what is down below? For pipes to be shooting up 1klm in diameter, the underlying resource must be huge!!! This may be what has attracted Goldfields and is responsible for the comparisons to Yanacocha (i don't know much about Yanacocha at all, except that it is a huge system). Maybe this is what they will be presenting in the roadshow? How much would it it cost to drill deep below to test this theory? Could this be why they have entered into the JV with Goldfileds? GF may be more concerned with what is far below than near the surface??
* If the circular target is a massive brecca pipe, it begs the question how many other similar pipes have we got with resource potential close to the surface nearby?
* Could this also somewhat explain why CQT was keen to terminate the farm in agreement with Basin Gold? Why share the fruits of a large system with someone contributing little?
* metallurgical program progressing well with floatation testwork. Initial results indicate excellent recovery of precious metals.
* Exploration drilling aims to test the area between Silver Hill deposit and Herbert Creek East deposit.
* The last quarterly ended with "Drilling is planned to continue during the year with the objective of better
defining the extent of the both the Silver Hill deposit and the mineralised system". Could this be a way of CQT confirming that the current deposit is belived to be only a minor offshoot of a much larger deposit? Identification of the mineralised system is something which the GF resources and experience are better suited to doing. It appears that at the mement the exporation risk taken by GF relates to whether there is a major mineralised system in the area. If there is no such major system identified GF should not spend more than $5mil in drilling and leave the open pit operations identified or suspected to CQT to exploit.
I don't think we will get the new resource estimate as the infill drilling would have only been completed in Augutst. This may be due further down the track. This leads me to believe the roadshow may also be further down the track.
I think the news will be the scoping study which was due to be completed late August. We should get a time-line schedule and plan for development of the project as a mine.
The news could also be the results of drilling the area between Silver Hill deposit and Herbert Creek East deposit. Ift would be positive if the 2 deposits are one in them same.
I'm a little diassapointed the announcement did not come out after close on Friday, i would have liked to have gone over it on the weekend before market open.
Anyways, this is my view, what's eveyone else think?