Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

ASX-listed, Blackstone Minerals has teamed up with leading supply chain “traceability” provider, Circulor to launch a nickel and cathode precursor traceability system for its Ta Khao nickel operations in Vietnam. The collaboration will empower Blackstone to demonstrate its compliance with environmental, social and governance sustainability metrics, stretching from its mining operations through to the refined final products.

ASX-listed Lithium Australia is continuing to carve out an envious position in the white-hot lithium market after its 90 per cent owned subsidiary Envirostream, rubber-stamped a deal with Bunnings to collect spent batteries from its all its Australian stores and selected stores in New Zealand. The company says the agreement was reached in anticipation of the Battery Stewardship Council’s Battery Stewardship Scheme.

ASX-listed Globe Metals & Mining has applied for a novel patent covering its metallurgical technology that could slash operational and capital costs and improve recovery of niobium at its exciting Kanyika niobium project in Malawi. The company recently released jaw-dropping results from a feasibility study on the project where a total EBITDA figure of US$3.74 billion across an initial 23 year mine life was envisaged.

Barton Gold has teased out more gold around the northern edges of the Perseverance pit floor at the Tarcoola gold project in South Australia. The strikes continue a run of success for Barton following the gold zone discovered at Perseverance West last year. Notable shallow drill hits were recorded including 1m grading 2.51 g/t gold from 26m and 1m grading 7 g/t gold from 37m.

Victory Mines has continued to make the case for possible northern extensions to the gold lode that was mined some years ago in the old Coogee open pit at its Coogee gold project near Kalgoorlie. Latest assays include 4 metres going 9.34 grams per tonne gold from 175 metres that hosts a 2m intersection grading 16.15 g/t from 176m.

Blackstone Minerals has locked in Tier 1 engineering, mineral processing and metallurgical consultants Wood and ALS to perform critical roles in the delivery of a definitive feasibility study at its Ta Khoa nickel refinery in Vietnam. The consultants will aim to provide project management, engineering, cost estimation, execution planning services and hydrometallurgical testing for the Ta Khoa nickel refinery.

Perth-based Lithium Australia’s wholly owned subsidiary, VSPC is now producing commercial quality lithium titanium oxide lithium battery anode powder. VSPC says its LTO exceeds industry performance benchmarks and that further research and development, including work on niobium-based anode powders, is underway. Lithium Australia is building an armoury of lithium battery technology in readiness for the lithium boom.

ASX-listed explorer, Venus Metals has substantially extended its high-grade mineralisation at the Link prospect within its Youanmi project. Latest drilling has intercepted high grade gold intercepts 200m down plunge of the existing resource, demonstrating strong continuity of mineralisation. These results point to a potential increase to the current resource estimate with many drill results still pending.

Newly listed Askari Metals has nailed its first field campaign at the company’s Horry project in the mineral rich Kimberley region with high grade copper and gold rock chip samples that have allowed it to map initial copper mineralisation over 400m in one location. Best copper results were 3.67 per cent, 3.13 per cent and 1.12 per cent and one gold sample yielded 13 grams per tonne.

Empire Energy is ramping up its activities in the Beetaloo Sub-basin in the Northern Territory with its Carpentaria-1 well securing an encouraging post shut in average flow rate of 0.364 million cubic feet of gas per day. The result is up 45 per cent from the pre-shut in rate. The company says the results appear to underline the development potential of its Beetaloo Sub-basin acreage in the NT.

Horizon Minerals has officially taken control of Aurenne Group’s Cannon, Glandore and Cowarna gold projects, comprised of 22 granted tenement licenses covering approximately 180 square kilometres within a short trucking distance from Horizon’s 100 per cent owned Boorara gold project in Kalgoorlie. Resource and reserve models are well advanced at the Cannon underground gold mine providing a near-term development opportunity for the company.

Okapi Resources has wasted no time in producing a maiden uranium resource at its Tallahassee uranium project in Colorado, USA. The company only finalised the acquisition in August and has already announced a maiden resource of 25.4 million tonnes going at 490 ppm U3O8 for 27.6 million pounds of yellowcake. Plans are now underway to commence a 10,000-metre maiden drilling program to bolster the resource further.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining is set to pocket up to $12 million following the closing date of its initial public offering on the 26th of October. The company will use the money to follow up on some bonanza historical gold hits east of Kalgoorlie that inexplicably were never run to ground. Kalgoorlie Gold will spin out of Ardea Resources who has been quietly amassing some serious gold tenure amongst its massive nickel holdings.

ABx Group’s chemical refining subsidiary, Alcore has modelled up a processing flowsheet designed to produce aluminium fluoride using cheap smelter waste as the feedstock. Alcore’s engineers have proposed a commercial 10,000 tonne per year aluminium fluoride plant using the new technology’s proprietary process which the company believes will deliver benefits for Australasian smelters currently reliant on imports.

Venus Metals has bagged up 1500 soil samples and 58 rock chips that it will now lab test for nickel, copper, rare earths, gold, platinum, lithium and related minerals at its Managaroon north project in the Gascoyne region of WA. The samples have since been submitted for the multi-element analysis and the company is planning a follow-up program based on the results.

ASX-listed Surefire Resources has unearthed three “exciting” new bedrock conductors at its Kooline lead-silver project in WA after modelling up old airborne electromagnetic data. The company says the conductors, that have never before seen any drilling, are linked to historic, high-grade lead-silver mines. Surefire is now planning a follow-up ground electromagnetic survey and has recently secured government funding for the subsequent drilling campaign.

Aldoro Resources has hit sulphides in two diamond drill holes into the VC11 target at its flagship Narndee project, 400 kilometres north-east of Perth. The presence of sulphides and prospective host rock units in diamond core has given the company the confidence to extend the nickel prospectivity of the Narndee project out to the VC11 prospect, a whopping 7km north northwest of the VC1 target.

Multi-metals exploration company, Conico Limited has finalised its maiden drill season at the Greenland Ryberg base and precious metals project with data acquisition now in progress. Drill core samples for assay are due to arrive at the lab in Spain later this week and all core trays, totalling 3480m of core, will land this week in Portugal where further analyses will be conducted by Longland, Conico’s wholly owned subsidiary company.

ASX-listed software-as-a-service provider, K2fly has tabled a record 79 per cent growth in annual recurring revenue in the September quarter this year when compared to the corresponding quarter in 2020. The boost to the company’s top line follows the signing of three major long-term contracts that also lead to a record 125 per cent growth in total contract value in the period.

Brisbane based miner, Superior Resources has enjoyed some serious success with the drill bit at its Steam Engine prospect within the broader Greenvale project in Queensland recently. The company’s latest drill campaign produced a best result of 5m at 24.9 g/t gold including a 1m intersection going a whopping 115 grams per tonne gold from just 29m down-hole.

ASX-listed Emu NL has completed the acquisition of the Sunfire nickel-copper-PGE prospect near Bridgetown in WA. Located in the emerging South West mineral field, the Sunfire project hosts a suite of mafic-ultramafic intrusions that display a similar electromagnetic signature to Chalice Mining’s coveted Julimar discovery and it is adjacent to Venture Minerals and Chalice Mining’s evolving Thor JV.

ASX-listed junior explorer Native Minerals Resources has opened a new exploration frontier in Western Australia’s Nullabor region after being granted two key tenements in the region. The company will immediately commence a high-resolution magnetic survey over its new leases to help define new drilling targets over the 195km2 slice of the remote Nullarbor Plain.

ASX-listed Kula Gold is looking to head into the new year with a slurry of results from six months of drilling across its expanding tenement package in key prospective West Australian terranes, including the developing South West terrane and West Yilgarn nickel, copper and PGE province. A follow-up program at the company’s recently discovered Boomerang kaolin-halloysite project near Southern Cross is high on the company’s agenda.

Venus Metals has encountered platinum group element, copper and nickel mineralisation at its Youanmi project in WA after probing a promising electromagnetic conductor. A seven hole, 734 metre drilling program has extended the mineralisation at the project with a 7m intersection going 0.85 g/t platinum, palladium plus gold from 124m. The 7m hit also included a high-grade interval of 2m at 1.44 g/t platinum, palladium plus gold.

Infinity Lithium has estimated the net present value of its proposed San José lithium mine and hydroxide plant in Spain at US$811.7m, which translates into a whopping $1.094 billion in Australian dollars. The company says the project will spit out US$190m a year for 26 years in net cash flows from the production of 19,500 tonnes of battery grade lithium hydroxide annually.

Strickland Metals saw its share price surge by more than 60 per cent in intraday trading following discovery of broad, shallow and high-grade zinc and lead mineralisation in the Earaheedy Basin, directly along strike to Rumble Resources’ celebrated Chinook zinc and lead discovery. The first two drill holes of an initial five-hole campaign at Strickland’s Iroquois prospect returned thick mineralised hits, including 23m at 5.5 per cent zinc and lead.

Assay results from Askari Metals’ drilling at its WA Burracoppin gold project have confirmed several high-grade intercepts with a broad low-grade gold halo seen in many of the other holes. Additionally, the company has identified a new prospect east of the current system. Askari plans to follow up this area which has the potential to positively change the size and the scale of the Burracoppin project significantly.

St George Mining has launched into another round of diamond drilling on the hunt to find deeper targets identified by compelling electromagnetic survey results at their 100 per cent owned Mount Alexander nickel-copper project in the north-eastern goldfields. The company is also targeting down plunge continuity following an enticing 11.07 metre drill hit grading 1.58 per cent nickel and 0.71 per cent copper from 333.5 metres.

Recent assay results from ABx Group’s Deep Leads rare earth element discovery in northern Tasmania have proven the mineralisation extends over an area greater than 3km. Importantly, results from one hole set a record with the highest grade of total rare earth elements from Deep Leads, returning a whopping 3,306 parts per million TREO. The company has just commenced an extension drill program.

Reconnaissance sampling by ASX-listed, King River Resources has unveiled elevated levels of gold, copper and silver from several areas scattered along more than 150km strike of the prospective Whitewater Volcanic rocks. Located at the company’s Mt Remarkable tenure in the Kimberley region of WA, grades going as high as 7.01 grams per tonne gold and 2.3 per cent copper were returned.

Venture Minerals has commissioned a feasibility study for an underground tin mine within its Mount Lindsay tin-tungsten resource near the high-grade Renison tin mine in northern Tasmania. The Australian government has declared tin a critical resource as global competition for the battery metal heats up. Tin prices soared to record highs recently, touching US$37,500 a tonne, up 180 per cent since 2016.

Multi-mineral exploration company, Oar Resources is about to hit the go button on a maiden diamond drilling campaign at the high-grade Douglas Canyon gold project in the US. The company is planning a four-hole, 1000 metre campaign in Nevada aimed at targeting near-surface mineralisation and testing down dip depth extensions where historical grades have tipped the scales as high as 18 grams per tonne gold and 398 g/t silver.