NewtonInterviews -- Tim Neall, West Garida https://ceo.ca/@newton/gold-at-west-garida-aan-aton-resources-with-mr-tim-neall
-- See below for juicy quotes from start of interview --
Tim Neall: The area we now refer to as West Garida is not one we selected deliberately, Peter. It is close to the Hamama deposit, but it is very inaccessible. It is just a kilometer or so east of Hamama and we first accessed it when we constructed a road into this area to conduct geophysics over the Hamama deposit.
Peter Bell: OK. Serendipity always seems to have play a part in these exciting discoveries. How did you find these veins when you did gain access to the area with this road?
Tim Neall: During the construction of the geophysics road, I happened to go to see how the local contractor was progressing. While up on the mountain, I spotted some scars on the opposite side of a small valley. On investigation, these scars proved to be ancient mine workings on a series of shallow-dipping quartz veins. They were significantly more extensive than some of the other small scratchings in the area.
It took less than 10 minutes to find a sample of gossanous quartz vein containing tiny grains of visible gold at one of the vein outcrops, the one we now refer to as #1 vein.
Peter Bell: Wow. Visible gold, eh? What did you do next?
Tim Neall: A few weeks later I returned with a small team of geologist to sample the veins and map the general area in detail. The exposure of the veins was poor and sampling the in situ veins was possible in only a few places, but they are clearly gently dipping structures hosted mainly by rhyolite or quartz porphyry. A further vein, which we call the #4 vein, was found during this work. We also took samples over the whole area at that time, which have returned highly encouraging results.