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Easter Walking of the Cross By Celeste Lustosa
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or many, Easter is a special time because of all the amazing, delicious and highly fatty chocolate eggs that we can eat. But for Christians worldwide and here in Roxby it is the most special time on the religious calendar. On Good Friday 35 people took part in the traditional Walking of the Cross that was led by Reverend Mary Lewis. People from all denominations and nationalities took part in the walk from St. Barbara’s Catholic Church
to the Roxby Downs Community Church, making 10 stops along the way recognising the “Stations of the Cross” in the lead up to the death and resurrection of Jesus. As one young boy under five told me on arrival, “This is all about Jesus.” “This is a week of celebrating and remembering what happened in Christ’s last week of life,” Sister Patricia Hogan said when speaking about Easter. According to Sister Pat there were various local celebrations at Easter but the most important was to gather as a family for the occasion. “We really hope people celebrated Easter with the family and also that people from other countries who
live in Australia keep their traditions and celebrated in their special way,” she said. Sister Pat believes everyone should try to understand the message Easter brings. “It is very good to enjoy the chocolate eggs but it is also important to understand and to explain to the children why eggs are the symbol of Easter. “Eggs are a sign of a new life, which is also what Easter is all about, it’s a sign that each day can be a new beginning and there is always hope that we can start again,” Sister Pat explained. Reverend Mary Lewis from the Roxby Downs Christian Church also spoke to The Monitor about the meaning of Easter. “I think the key message of Easter is that God loves us all and made us to have a perfect relationship with him but we decided we wanted to do it according to our plans and not His. He restored this relationship Reverend Mary Lewis with young Christians, Amber Goldsworthy-Spiers, Sophia Bernarte, Sonya GoldsworthySpiers, Paolo Maroma and Jesryl Santos.
by sending his own son to save us. “We didn’t like to be controlled by God and we killed his son but it is possible to have a close relationship with God and Easter is all about a new life,” she said. The reverend also said that out of the death, came life; death being represented on Good Friday and new life represented on Easter Sunday. “On Easter God showed us he is greater than death and brought Jesus back to life, so we could have a new life as well,” Rev. Mary said. Both Sister Pat and Reverend Mary believe the true message of Easter can and should be told to children. “I tell the children what Easter is really about and I am sure they understand about death. “They know that sometimes bad things happen in the world and the main message to tell them is that Easter brings hope of a new life and that things can be renewed,” Rev. Mary added. At the end of Good Friday’s walk I was reminded by my new young friend, “See I told you it was all about Jesus.”
Tasman Resources to resume drilling at Vulcan Project . . .
Could it be the next Olympic Dam?
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asman Resources has announced drilling at its promising Vulcan IOCGU Project 30 kilometers North of Olympic Dam. Tasman reports show the site has similar dimensions (11km²) to the Olympic Dam breccia complex. The Olympic Dam breccia complex, having an area of more than 10km², is one of the largest ore bodies in the world, with an ore resource of more than nine billion tonnes. Although it is a huge ore body, Olympic Dam is made up of a very large number of individual lodes and it was not until the tenth drill hole that commercial grade mineralisation was discovered. The comparison with the Tasman search is also supported by the comparative residual gravity response for Olympic Dam and that calculated for Vulcan after adjusting the gravity model to the same depth as Olympic Dam. At Olympic Dam, high grade copperuranium mineralisation (dominated by a copper sulphide mineralogy relatively rich in bornite or chalcocite) and the highest grade gold zones are spatially located towards the central and upper parts of the deposit. In VUD 001 at Vulcan, the sulphide mineralogy is essentially pyrite with lesser chalcopyrite, and carbonate (mostly siderite), implying that, by analogy with Olympic Dam, this drill hole is not in the
best location and that further drilling at Vulcan should focus on locating portions of the system (in both the northern and southern anomalies) where higher-grade bornite and chalcocite mineralisation may be developed. This will be a priority for forthcoming drilling programs. The company said additional, detailed gravity data and geophysical modelling, as well as further geological investigation of drill core from the first hole confirm Vulcan’s quality, size and potential. The company said whilst these assays are not commercial grade, they are extremely encouraging for an initial drill hole into such a large target (approximately 11km²). Drilling will initially focus on further evaluation of the north-western anomaly in reasonably close proximity to the first drill hole. Between two and four drill holes are initially planned, depending upon results. Testing of the apparently more complex, probably shallower and possibly more interesting southern anomaly still requires resolution of an Aboriginal heritage issue. Executive Chairman Greg Solomon said drilling of the initial holes is expected to take up to about eight weeks to complete, although significant results will be released as they are received. Sampling and core assaying is expected to take an additional two to four weeks.