Fieldwork Update

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During the second half of the summer field season we continued our regional scale stream sediment sampling programme across the Southern Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire option agreements. This work, combined with a soil sampling programme completed earlier in the summer, in an area 7 km south-west of the Dolaucothi mine means that with the help of Cardiff University placement students 97 stream sediment samples, 518 soil samples and 25 rock chips have been collected over the full course of the summer field season. All samples are currently awaiting analysis at ALS Laboratories.

SHG attends UK Mining Conference

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On September 13th and 14th we attended the UK Mining Conference held in Falmouth where Managing Director, Mike Armitage, presented ‘The Sarn Helen Gold Story – What have the Romans ever done for us?’. The presentation generated a lot of interest and we also had a lot of visitors to our stand inclusive of current and potential future investors, equipment providers and fellow explorers. A copy of Mike’s presentation can be found here.

SEG London Conference

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Maxwell Porter, one of the placement students from Cardiff University who joined SHG during the first field season in summer 2021, presented work he undertook during his placement to the SEG London 2023 conference.  He reportedly had ‘a great time talking with fellow geologists about the project and the significant collaboration SHG has had with Cardiff University.’  A copy of his summary poster can be seen here.

 

Fieldwork Update

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During the first half of the summer field season SHG has focused on identifying additional regional targets while also following up on an area of interest generated from the results of the 2022 field season.  With the help of Cardiff University placement students 33 stream sediment samples, 445 soil samples and 12 rock chips have been collected.  The stream sediments samples have been collected across our Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire option agreements and in an area 7 km south-west of the Dolaucothi mine soil and rock chip samples have been collected to build on last years results.  All samples are currently awaiting analysis at ALS Laboratories.  The second half of the field season in September will comprise 4 weeks of additional stream sediment sampling in Carmarthenshire.

Scottish Option Agreement

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In December 2022 SHG aquired a fifth Option Agreement in Scotland.

Welsh Mining Option Agreements

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Sarn Helen Gold has secured 4 options agreements from the Crown Estate to explore for Gold in Wales. The options agreements cover 1000 square kilometers.

Although SHG has permission from the Crown to explore for gold in these areas, the permission from the land owner is needed to carry out any work eg mapping, taking soil samples.

We are very grateful to the local land owners who have helped us gain access to the land in our licence areas.

The option agreements are in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and around the Roman gold mine at Dolaucothi.