Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

Meeka Metals has expanded the mineral resource at its Murchison gold project in outback WA to 1.2m ounces on the back of a 12 per cent increase to its Turnberry deposit in the historic gold-bearing region. The company is putting the finishing touches on a prefeasibility study with an eye to join several players mining in the region.

Radiopharm Theranostics has been given the keys to the United States outpatient clinics to begin imaging trials of patients with pancreatic cancer after receiving the tick of approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for its cancer-seeking peptide.The USFDA has granted Radiopharm investigational new drug approval which will allow the company to test its patented RAD301 integrin technology in the real world.

Adriatic Metals has drawn down the first $30m tranche from a $142.5m debt package to keep the wheels spinning on its Vares silver mine development in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. The project has passed the halfway mark of construction, is fully-funded and is on track to begin processing by September 2023. The company is also committing to legacy projects in a once-thriving nearby community.

Goldfields explorers Brightstar Resources and Kingwest Resources have agreed to merge in a move to consolidate the gold assets of each company and bring their combined operations a step closer to production. The agreement has been made through a scheme of arrangement under which Brightstar will acquire 100 per cent of the shares in Kingwest.

Asra Minerals has set up future revenue streams and a carbon credit plan in the Goldfields after completing the full ownership of its Tarmoola Pastoral Station about 25km northwest of Leonora in WA. The tenure takes in a massive 170,000-plus hectare ground position and provides the company will a host of new revenue streams including accommodation, cattle sales and a carbon credit plan.

Infinity Mining has been granted a five-year extension to an exploration licence that is part of the company’s Panorama project in the Pilbara region of WA. The extension also includes two other adjoining tenements and has a new expiry date of 20 November 2027. Future exploration of the project is currently being planned with data to come from an earlier helicopter electromagnetic survey.

Auric Mining has recorded multiple nickel intercepts from its latest drilling program at the company’s Chalice West project that it says shows potential for nickel sulphide mineralisation at the site. The explorer has already identified a 7km magnetic feature linked with anomalous rare earths in addition to a 5km strike length gold anomaly at the project 50km from Norseman.

Infinity Lithium Corporation will continue moving ahead with plans to submit a direct mining licence application for its San José lithium project in Spain after a decision from the Contentious Administrative Court in Cáceres confirmed that is the most suitable path forward. Following the termination of the its Investigation Permit Valdeflorez the company says it will now proceed with an alternative process to a mining licence and one in which it already has the backing of the regional government.

Kairos Minerals has struck rich tantalum deposits going as much as 2143ppm during a lithium-caesium-tantalum pegmatite-focused drill campaign at its Mt York gold project next to Pilbara Minerals' Pilgangoora lithium mine. The results further a possibility to extract more than just gold from the 1.1-million-ounce resource in the mineral-rich region.

Chimeric Therapeutics says it has successfully completed the planned medicating of its third dose cohort as part of its study evaluating the safety of the company’s CHM 1101 cell therapy to treat glioblastoma. Glioblastoma is a rare but deadly aggressive cancer that can occur in the spinal cord or brain. The objectives of the study are to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the treatment and establish recommended dosing for a phase 2 trial.

Heavy rare earths player Northern Minerals has appointed GR Engineering Services and MACA Interquip to conduct early phase engineering and design work for its proposed commercial-scale beneficiation plant at Browns Range, in the north of WA. The company considers the operation’s Wolverine resource to be amongst the nation’s highest-grade dysprosium and terbium orebodies and says the looming award of the contract is a key step in updating its definitive feasibility study for a full-scale processing hub.

Xanadu Mines has signed a non-binding gas offtake memorandum of understanding with Jade Gas Holdings for commercial gas sales to power the copper explorer’s Kharmagtai project in Mongolia. The deal is designed to secure a reliable, low cost and cleaner energy source for Xanadu’s Kharmagtai copper-gold project using gas from Jade’s TTCBM project only 80km away.

There will be no tools down at Classic Minerals this Christmas as the WA gold explorer races finish its Kat Gap processing plant south of Southern Cross with work on the 70,000-tonne tailings facil

CZR Resources has struck a native title deal with the Robe River Kuruma people which will see the company place a high priority on protecting country as it presses ahead with plans to join the rank

Valor Resources has scooped up a suite of high-grade uranium rock chips that have extended the surface mineralisation of a key drill target to a strike length of around 500m at its Surprise Creek project in Canada. The program yielded six samples grading over 1 per cent uranium oxide with anomalous copper and was headlined by a specimen running 7.98 per cent.

Ora Banda Mining has secured funding support from shareholder Hawkes Point Holdings to continue developing its Riverina underground operation including exploration, resource development and capital expenditure. Hawkes Point is the gold producer’s largest shareholder and will provide Ora Banda with an unsecured loan of $11 million towards work at the project near Kalgoorlie.

St George Mining has welcomed Chinese lithium-ion battery maker Sunwoda Electronic onto its share registry via a $2m placement as it eagerly awaits results from a maiden drill campaign where visibl

Xanadu Mines is one step closer to finalising its phase two and three investment agreement for its Mongolian projects with Zijin Mining Group after the formal documentation for the deal was executed. Once approvals have been met, Xanadu will use Zijin’s investment to continue exploration of its prospective Red Mountain project in addition to making a final investment decision on taking its Kharmagtai project to the construction phase.

Infinity Lithium has extended a Memorandum of Understanding with battery manufacturer LG Energy Solutions for the supply of lithium hydroxide from its planned San Jose project in Spain. The expansion follows a 2021 deal that permits LG the first rights to 10,000 tonnes of product per year and grants the parties additional time to hammer out a long-term offtake agreement. The deal will mature on 2 December 2023.

CZR Resources has expanded its Robe Mesa project in the Pilbara after agreeing to acquire a nearby tenement from Fortescue Metals Group subsidiary FMG Pilbara to the south of Rio Tinto’s Mesa F iron ore project. Subject to the completion of the sale, the company will make a cash payment of $150,000 to Fortescue in addition to 3.3 million CZR shares and a 1 per cent free-on-board revenue royalty covering any future production from the site.

Brightstar Resources’ confidence in the potential of its flagship Cork Tree Well project near Laverton continues to grow with gold assays from an extensional RC drill hole providing the latest boost. Results include 6m at 3.17 grams per tonne gold from 182 metres and the additional strike length opened up by the drill hole has persuaded the company to redouble its efforts next year.

Gold strikes in oxidised shale at Aruma Resources’ Melrose project in the Pilbara similar to those found in nearby mines have spurred the company on to keep sniffing around the iron ore-rich region

The maiden RC drilling campaign at Lithium Australia and Charger Metals’ Lake Johnson joint venture project in the Goldfields-Esperance region has enjoyed immediate success with the drill bit. The company says the campaign intersected numerous spodumene-bearing stacked pegmatites between 1 and 5 metres wide within a broad 50m zone that remains open at each end and depth. Field observations include spodumene in 15 of the 17 holes completed.

An approval for a program of works is now the only thing preventing Galan Lithium from launching a maiden five-hole diamond drilling program at its newly defined Fry’s Block area, part of its larger Greenbushes South lithium project in WA. The campaign is expected to kick off in January and follows the discovery of three compelling pegmatite targets through fieldwork, geochemical analysis and a geophysical data review.

JV partners Triangle Energy Global and Pilot Energy have firmed up the efficiency of a new shipping route through the Port of Geraldton in WA after completing a second delivery of 52,900 barrels of oil to a refinery in Thailand. The vessel carrying the freight has since returned from its voyage and has been loaded with a fresh batch of 25,000 barrels of liquids ahead of a new 2023 delivery.

Blackstone Minerals has hailed the success of its Ta Khoa nickel refinery pilot in Western Australia upon completion of a one-year test to underscore the company’s vertically integrated Vietnamese

Auric Mining has returned positive results for rare earths from the company’s latest drill campaign at its Chalice West project including a 4m hit at 3591 parts-per-million total rare earth oxides from 41m. The 4m section includes a high-grade 1m intercept at an outstanding 11,038ppm TREO from 42m with an impressive 22 per cent magnetic rare earth oxides.

PolarX has attracted the attention of a prominent new shareholder after mega miner Northern Star Resources snapped up a 10 per cent holding in the Perth-based company following a $1.48 million investment in the operation. Polar X has now raised $3.63 million since November as it eyes future developments at its Humboldt Range project in Nevada, USA.

Lithium Australia has chalked up another milestone on its journey to commercialising a rival to traditional EV batteries with completion of an engineering study for an expanded pilot plant to make lithium ferro phosphate. The company says it eventually wants a plant producing at least 10,000 tonnes a year which it believes will make it one of the few significant LFP producers outside China.

Si6 Metals has struck high-grade shallow gold out the back of Laverton in WA’s Goldfields in the maiden aircore drilling program at its Monument Gold project.

A slimmed down Atlas project ore reserve will give Image Resources a higher-grade mineral sands mine which the company expects to turn a tidy profit from the get-go.

WA oil producer Triangle Energy has farmed out a 25 per cent stake in two onshore gas permits in the Perth Basin to Talon Energy in exchange for a $9.26 million pay day. The company believes the zones host significant gas resources and plans to unlock its potential through a trio of new exploration holes in 2024.