Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

Toronto-listed gold producer Novo Resources has churned out 18,144 ounces of gold in the third quarter at its newly minted Nullagine gold project in the Pilbara that produced 14,890 ounces in the previous quarter. Gold sales generated C$43 million revenue for the conglomerate gold miner who finished the quarter with a hefty C$44.1 million in the kitty and an impressive C$135 million worth of liquid investments.

Buru Energy has completed another 74,000 barrels crude oil lift from its Canning Basin acreage in Western Australia that will be shipped out of Wyndham port and sold to BP Singapore who will deliver it to a refinery in SE Asia. Buru will pick up a handy $3.7m for its 50 per cent share of the oil.

Torian continues to uncover a swathe of decent gold grades across its Leonora-based Mt Stirling project revealing what it says looks to be one large connected ore system just eight kilometres along strike of Red 5’s four-million-ounce King Of The Hills gold mine. Notable intercepts include 10m grading at 2.05 grams per tonne gold from 34 metres and 1m grading 6.03 g/t gold from 3m.

Mineral exploration company, PolarX has staked an additional 15 claims in the heart of the historic US historic mining mecca state of Nevada. The company says it has now confirmed several large gold-in-soil anomalies at its new Black Canyon tenue, within its existing high-grade Humboldt Range where, amazingly past rock chip sampling returned multiple assays going more than 100 grams per tonne gold, including a spectacular peak value of 512.7g/t gold.

Aspiring miner Adriatic Metals has sealed a US$245 million finance package to fund the construction of its flagship Vares silver project in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The deal, which includes an equity raising of US$100 million, signals a major step in the advancement of the project which is still subject to delivery of a definitive feasibility study.

Altech Chemicals may have raised the stakes at its Kerrigan kaolin deposit in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt with the discovery of halloysite in its analysis of samples from last year’s aircore drilling program. Halloysite is a tubular type of kaolin that attracts a premium price because of its value for a range of specialist uses.

ASX-listed gold explorer Si6 Metals has strategically positioned itself to extend the strike of its Monument gold project in Laverton by kicking off a government co-funded 5000 metre air core drill program. The program is targeting high level intrusive gold deposits analogous to the seven-million-ounce Wallaby gold deposit, also in the Laverton tectonic zone.

ASX newcomer, West Cobar Metals has unleashed the drill rig for the company's highly anticipated maiden diamond drilling campaign at its Bulla Park copper and silver project on the western edges of the mineral-rich Cobar Basin in NSW. The program will kick off with three holes at its namesake prospect, targeting a major copper-silver stratabound mineralised system where historical drilling returned thick copper intercepts at the margins of the system.

Junior explorer Victory Mines has judiciously applied for an additional five exploration licences around its Mt Ida-Ida Valley project, which will now share a tenement boundary with celebrated fellow explorer Red Dirt's newly acquired Mt Ida gold project. Victory says northward extensions of the recently announced lithium bearing pegmatites on Red Dirt's ground may creep up into its new tenure.

Gold explorer, Torian Resources has wrapped up an unusual equity swap and advisory services arrangement with blockchain outfit BullionFX that recently listed its "BULL" gold-backed token on cryptocurrency exchange Digifinex. Under the agreement, Torian acquired a 7.5 per cent stake in BullionFX and is set to receive 15 million BULL crypto tokens. Torian says each BULL recently traded up at about US$0.85, valuing its stake in BULL at more than US$12 million.

King River Resources has made a key appointment to lead its newly formed High "Purity Metals Division" as the company looks to lay the groundwork for building a processing plant for high purity alumina in Kwinana. According to the company, newly appointed CEO, Doug Flanagan has a pedigree in delivering base and precious metal projects, rare earths and oil and gas projects in Australia, Zambia, Malaysia and Central and North America.

Okapi Resources has acquired additional high-grade uranium pounds adjacent to its existing tenure on a new mining lease executed with the State of Colorado. Okapi has secured a 100 per cent interest in 640 acres of prospective acreage around the High Park uranium deposit. Black Range Minerals previously established a JORC 2012 resource of 2.48 million pounds U3O8 at 570ppm U3O8 in the new project area.

Mineral explorer, Strickland Metals has secured a milestone 'Native Title Land Access and Mineral Exploration Agreement' with the Tarlka Matuwa Parku Aboriginal Corporation to cover the company’s entire Yandal gold project tenure in WA. Strickland says the agreement will fast-track its exploration efforts at the project that already boasts a resource base of about 600,000 ounces of gold, taking in a touch under 2,000 square kilometres.

Twenty Seven Co is set to kick off reverse circulation drilling at its 100 per cent owned Rover gold project near Sandstone in WA next week that will test recent stellar soil sampling results including a 1.15 gram per tonne surface gold sample. Drilling will also test some exciting intersections at the Harmonic and Creasy prospects to get a better understanding of the potential scale of the mineralised system around them.

Mineral exploration company Valor Resources is onto a grab bag of significant grade copper samples, with some going as high as 13.4 per cent, arising from a geochemical sampling program at its Picha copper and silver project in southern Peru. At the Cobremani prospect, sampling of historical works delivered a continuous 35.6m long channel with an average 1.3 per cent copper and 22.85 g/t silver.

Twenty Seven Co could be set to join the white-hot lithium market after early visual results identified the presence of pegmatites with evidence of lithium, tin and copper mineralisation at its Trident project near Broken Hill in New South Wales. The results compliment historical geochemical sampling which included a stellar 7.63 per cent lithium oxide sample. The company is now awaiting assay results from rock chips collected from those pegmatites.

Mineral explorer Aldoro Resources has boosted its lithium footprint in WA after sealing an agreement with Trafalgar Resources for the 100 per cent acquisition of its Windimurra pegmatite assets near Mt Magnet. The deal represents the fourth acquisition of lithium ground by Aldoro in as many months. Under the agreement Aldoro will pay Trafalgar $50,000 in cash and 275,000 shares.

Great Southern Mining is rapidly scrubbing up its Southern Star gold deposit in WA after it intersected a best yet drill hit of 68 metres going 1.9 grams per tonne gold from just 61m in amongst a wealth of other high-grade hits at its Duketon project in WA. The impressive result backs up a previous 59m hit in a different hole grading 2.1 g/t gold.

WA-focused exploration company, Metal Hawk has delivered a broad 22m nickel sulphide hit going 0.27 per cent nickel at its Commodore prospect near Kalgoorlie some 150m north of its recent discovery where a 1m interval at a smashing 5.9 per cent nickel was intercepted. The company will now ramp up exploration drilling at the prospect following a $2.4m cash injection from a strongly supported capital raise.

ASX-listed aspiring gold and iron ore developer, CZR Resources has cranked up a 7,800m infill reverse circulation drilling program as a key part of the definitive feasibility study underway on its 85 per cent-owned Robe Mesa iron ore project in WA’s Pilbara. The drilling is aimed at growing the indicated resource and further de-risking the project in tandem with ongoing technical and economic studies.

ASX-listed Godolphin Resources is preparing to unleash the drill and probe several fresh targets at its Yeoval project in western NSW after a detailed review of historic exploration data set the wheels in motion. The project area covers some 290 square kilometres and compellingly, is also home to 60 historic copper gold mine workings along a 20km strike length.

Kingwest Resources has signed a joint venture agreement with FMR Investments which will see the company resume underground mining at the Menzies Gold Project north of Kalgoorlie. The deposit was last mined 85 years ago and produced 526,000 tonnes at 16 grams per tonne gold for 270,000 ounces. Lake Goongarrie is also set to be extended with five new gold anomalous zones detected.

Barton Gold is collaborating with the CSIRO to trial innovative ore detection in the field where geochemical sample analysis will be completed within eight hours. The technology, if proved successful will dramatically reduce reliance on turnaround times for laboratory assays results which can take anywhere up to 12 weeks. Barton’s government co-funded radar survey has recently identified a collection of shallow targets at its Tarcoola Gold Project in SA.

Venus Metals, along with their joint venture partner Rox Resources has had major success with its metallurgical test work recently conducted on the Youanmi Deeps Resource in WA. Test work has delivered substantial improvement in gold extraction for Youanmi Deeps with new test work improving extraction to 95.6 per cent, a substantial increase from the historical production which averaged 86.8 per cent gold recovery.

King River Resources has signed a Participant Agreement with the Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre. The $120 million Australian organisation provides industry-led research and seeks to grow Australia's competitiveness and contribution in the global battery industry value chain. King River will now brush shoulders with about 60 other members of the alliance, including heavyweights BHP, IGO and the Federal Government.

Mineral exploration company, Comet Resources has commenced reporting environmental, social and governance metrics under a universal framework developed by international non-government organisation, the World Economic Forum. A series of sustainability metrics will now be measured and then disclosed in the Perth-based company’s quarterly and annual reports, including governance, anti-corruption practices, ethical behaviour, diversity and inclusion, pay equality and carbon emissions.

ASX-listed junior explorer, Latitude Consolidated has hit a solid metre of bonanza grade gold within three metres of high-grade gold at its St Annes prospect in the Murchison gold district of WA. Assay results have returned a 1m sample at St Anne’s running at a superlative 31.2 grams per tonne gold within 3m at a stellar 13.82 grams per tonne gold from 103m.

ASX-listed junior gold explorer, Horizon Minerals has released a slew of new high-grade intercepts at its Kestrel discovery to beef up the arsenal of prospects already on hand at its flagship Binduli project near Kalgoorlie. Notable recent shallow intersections include 4m grading 24.27 grams per tonne gold from 92m and 5m grading 13.22 g/t including 1m at 42.27 g/t from 101m.

Multi-mineral explorer, PolarX is set to extend its Alaska Range Project with recently completed diamond drilling at the Caribou Dome Copper deposit hitting finely disseminated native copper in four drill holes. The vein-hosted mineralisation currently extends 1.1 kilometres and the discovery has potential to grow the existing resource at Alaska Range which comprises both the Caribou Dome and the Zackly deposit.

Coda Minerals has increased the size of its famed Emmie Bluff copper gold discovery in South Australia, with additional thicker zones of copper sulphide mineralisation intersected in the eight diamond drill holes completed to date. Visual logging of core has shown three holes hit the jackpot as they intersected the bornite-rich core of the mineralisation, which is thicker than seen in previous holes.

Nickel exploration company, Estrella Resources continues to deliver the goods in its nickel sulphide hunt at its compelling T5 discovery near the historical Carr Boyd Rocks nickel mine, north of Kalgoorlie in WA. Step out drilling to the north and south of the currently defined T5 mineralised zone has intercepted more nickel-copper sulphides to grow the strike to a hefty 1.5 kilometres.

Things are starting to get interesting for junior exploration company, Oar Resources. The company has identified the presence of ultramafic rocks at its polymetallic Crown PGE and gold project containing copper sulphides just 8km west of Chalice Mining’s celebrated Julimar discovery in WA. Assay results from 74 rock chip samples collected at the greenfields project are due soon.