X-ray fluorescence
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Sep 13, 2026
Kevin HornsbyHOST
And then there was a further R&S on Friday, basically just confirming the grades.
Kevin HornsbyHOST
And the grades were better than the XRF done.
Kevin HornsbyHOST
So as Colin explained, it was almost like sliding tables.
Kevin HornsbyHOST
It's one on top of another on top.
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Charles ArcherHOST
Serval is, in my view, they're about a year, a year and a half ahead.
Charles ArcherHOST
of their neighbor and their neighbor is now worth about 13, 40 times what they are.
Charles ArcherHOST
They put out an RNS a couple of days ago, geological mapping, you know, and then they've done the preliminary XRF testing of surface samples.
Charles ArcherHOST
And some of these samples are looking at more than 56% copper, right? Which is indicative, but it's crazy.
Avery TrufelmanHOST
Hunter demonstrated some of the many ways he and his team test for authenticity, like one method on a handbag is testing the metal hardware.
HunterGUEST
Nick has our XRF machine here, so-
Avery TrufelmanHOST
It's like a huge gun-looking thing.
HunterGUEST
[laughs] Exactly.
Avery TrufelmanHOST
It's bright orange.
HunterGUEST
Exactly.
Avery TrufelmanHOST
The XRF machine doesn't just say authentic or inauthentic.
Avery TrufelmanHOST
It gives a precise percentage breakdown of all the elements in this alloy.
Daniel MajorGUEST
It's really big and we've drilled and we know it's cyanide all the way down to over 300 meters.
Daniel MajorGUEST
And we know with the XRF, It's mineralized all the way to those 300 meters.
Daniel MajorGUEST
So you've got this deposit that's potentially 15 square kilometers, 300 meters deep.
Daniel MajorGUEST
We're just waiting for the final assay results to come out.
Anthony MargaritGUEST
And definitely by the time we're finished this 14,000 meters of drilling on the east side, we'll be at that point.
Anthony MargaritGUEST
You know, I think, uh, from where we're sitting, it's-- we've got a strong geochemical correlation between the XRF arsenic results that we see and the gold values that we're seeing in assays.
Anthony MargaritGUEST
So, uh, the way we have things set up, I guess you'd say logistically on site, is the material that's drilled today, we've got XRF results on tomorrow morning.
Anthony MargaritGUEST
And it's giving us the ability to, to call an audible, if you will, occasionally to change the dip or the azimuth of these holes in order to, um, you know, increase our confidence in our targeting.
Anthony MargaritGUEST
So it's the first time that, you know, in my career that we've been able to have that information at our fingertips that rapidly.
Brian BusseGUEST
So, you know, it's definitely economically driven and, you know, it takes capital, especially with rare earth elements.
Brian BusseGUEST
So it's a combination where, You know, they need people like me that actually understand the science and we need XRF guns and certain things so that we can find those loads and actually turn them over to corporations that can refine it and mine it at a level that our country needs.
Brian BusseGUEST
We need it for everything tech and a lot of defense as well.
Brian BusseGUEST
So it's very, very important.
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Daniel O'ConnorHOST
Um, Is the process with gold, is it as it was 20, 30 years ago or has it changed? Is it still a lot of smaller prospectors and big companies come in or is it? I'm
Brian BusseGUEST
blessed, I guess, because most of the refineries and the small mills that actually have room to do for guys like me, they're willing to work with me.
Brian BusseGUEST
They trust me and, you know, we With silver and gold, you just have to have the ability to do fire SA tests and XRF tests.
Brian BusseGUEST
So, Daniel, I think the technology of the XRF machines is opening up the potential to help us solve the problems with all metals.
Daniel MajorGUEST
Some are off the edge and, and, um, I mean, we're really testing the boundaries of it.
Daniel MajorGUEST
But, you know, from an XRF point of view, we're waiting for the assays to come back, and when we've got them, we're, we will issue them in, uh, uh, in a batch.
Daniel MajorGUEST
I, I don't want to put one out on its own.
Daniel MajorGUEST
I need to understand the structure.
Daniel MajorGUEST
But what we're seeing from the XRF is a deposit that's 350 meters thick of continuous mineralization, um, in multiple holes.
Daniel MajorGUEST
Um, you know, so you're potentially looking at, from a scale point of view, something that's, you know, two kilometers by two kilometers in- plug and drilled all the way down to over 330, 350 meters in depth.
Daniel MajorGUEST
That's a really big piece of rock.
Daniel MajorGUEST
Um, and certainly the grades from an XRF point of view look interesting.
Phil CarrollHOST
But let's move on Kendrick, which is arguably an even better story.
Phil CarrollHOST
We saw the new recent release of this certified lab assays from Teufels Cooper in Namibia, which validate the portable XRF results that they've been reporting.
Phil CarrollHOST
This correlation coefficient between the PXRF and certified lab assays was 0.82, which is important because it gives much greater confidence in all those earlier field readings.
Phil CarrollHOST
Shorter intersections include 3.83% and 3.97% LREO.
Phil CarrollHOST
And Kensic has now explicitly stated its target is not less than 40 million tonnes at greater than 3%.
Kevin KohlerHOST
So you'd have, so it would only work for the one x-ray source kind of.
Nigel BraunHOST
There's also the problem that I'm assuming it probably is in effect too with, because how XRF sensor or whatever, I don't know what they're called, like XRF things work, like my XRF detector.
Nigel BraunHOST
It works on X-ray fluorescence.
Nigel BraunHOST
So it's like the X-ray hits the element and then it kicks back another X-ray.
Daniel MajorGUEST
So there aren't that many holes drilled into the center of the high.
Daniel MajorGUEST
But, you know, The initial XRF results of the samples that have gone through to assay look really interesting.
Daniel MajorGUEST
They don't give us a DY and TB.
Daniel MajorGUEST
I mean, unfortunately, dysprosium and terbium don't come up on an XRF, but all the others do.
Daniel MajorGUEST
And we can see that there's good grades for neodymium and prosonium.
Daniel MajorGUEST
So NDPR are great.
Daniel MajorGUEST
If it lines up how we think it's going to be, that gravity high, just the middle one, the one that's slightly on the side, that middle one is about two kilometers square, two by two by two.
Daniel MajorGUEST
And we drilled down to 350 to 400 meter depth.
Colin BirdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Presidium and neodymium, we're getting very, very good values.
Colin BirdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Confirming with the XRF, being confirmed against assays.
Colin BirdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We sent samples off to Germany to a well-known company for a metallurgical assessment.
Colin BirdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We've had work going on in the States for four months.
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