Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

Surefire Resources is keen to keep its drill bits spinning as it looks to bring in more rigs across the company’s gold, iron ore and vanadium projects in Western Australia. Having just wrapped up a round of RC drilling and a diamond hole at its gold and vanadium projects, Surefire is now lining up a rig for its iron ore venture.

Cell immunotherapy company Chimeric Therapeutics will launch the first-ever trials of its patented CORE Natural Killer cells with two complementary smart drug therapies — one to stimulate the body’s uptake of the treatment and the other to attack the defence mechanisms of colorectal cancer cells. The trials will be conducted at the UH Seidman Cancer Center in Ohio, USA.

St George Mining has tabled a flurry of exploration results across its WA portfolio, including the sighting of visual copper sulphides at its Paterson copper-gold project. The company has also identified a suite of priority drill targets at its Ajana and Mt Alexander nickel-copper-PGE operations through geophysical surveys.

Metal Hawk’s dominant partner IGO Limited will inject another $4 million into the duo’s Goldfields joint venture nickel operation. The stage 2 earn-in deal will give IGO an additional 24 per cent stake in the partnership. After spending $3 million at stage 1, the latest move will lift IGO’s interest from 51 per cent to 75 per cent.

CZR Resources has been cleared to fast-track drilling after receiving heritage approval that it hopes will lead to a 1.6km expansion of its strike length at the northern extension of its Robe Mesa iron ore project in WA’s Pilbara region. The deposit forms part of CZR’s Yarraloola iron ore project, 120km south-west of Karratha. The company says heritage clearance allows it to drill along strike to the north of Robe Mesa’s current mineral resource.

DiscovEx Resources’ JV partner, Carnaby Resources has added to its exploration target list in Queensland, with recent geophysical work across its Greater Duchess copper-gold project near Mt Isa lighting up two deposit-scale anomalies. The induced polarised hits are inside a 3km corridor between Carnaby’s Nil Desperandum and Lady Fanny discoveries.

Multi-element explorer Askari Metals has turned up 31 gold nuggets using traditional gold loaming at its Horry copper and gold project 90km south-west of Halls Creek, in Western Australia’s Kimberley region. A high-definition magnetic survey was also completed over the project, lighting up multiple structures similar to the source area of gold. The explorer now plans a drilling campaign as soon as possible.

American West Metals is hunting down a suite of exploration targets as part of a maiden drill program at its Storm copper project on Somerset Island in Nunavut, Canada. The campaign could start as early as next month and will focus on its highly prospective zone 2750N that previously delivered a set of solid intercepts, including 110m at 2.45 per cent copper from surface and 3.07 per cent copper from 12.2m.

Grade control drilling results have shown shallow mineralisation continuity at Venus Metals and Rox Resources’ Grace deposit that forms part of the joint venture’s Youanmi gold project near Mount Magnet in WA. The partners say the latest results reconcile well with the area’s resource model and further de-risk the deposit ahead of commercialisation.

Infinity Lithium Corporation has extended its Memorandum of Understanding with South Korean lithium-ion battery producer LG Energy Solutions for lithium hydroxide from its proposed San José project in Spain with the extension due to mature in December. The two companies originally signed a non-binding agreement in June last year that gives LG first rights to 10,000 tonnes per year of product, with additional volumes subject to negotiations and agreement.

Altech Chemicals is tantalisingly close to building a high-purity alumina coating pilot plant in the German state of Saxony after signing a final construction contract with developer Kuttner GmbH. The company’s glazing process uses silicone particles and graphite to treat anode materials, boosting the endurance of lithium-ion batteries.

Meeka Gold continues to record high-grade assays at its Circle Valley project near Esperance in WA’s south, including results up to 1748 parts per million total rare earth oxides. The assays also show values of up to 132 grams per tonne scandium — a valuable alloying metal used with aluminium the company says could provide a meaningful by-product for its operation.

Junior explorer Godolphin Resources will soon test the limits of its newly acquired Narraburra rare earths project about 15km north of Temora in central west NSW after securing government approval to launch a four-hole diamond probe. According to the company, the looming campaign is intended to sniff out mineralisation across a suite of prospective zones.

Buoyed by visible gold from its first diamond drill hole at the company’s Central Sandstone gold project, Aurumin Ltd has added another tenement to its land holding in WA’s East Murchison region. The move will lift the granted acreage at Aurumin’s wholly owned, historical Central Sandstone Gold Project to 126 square kilometres.

Superior Resources has pulled the trigger on a fresh eight-hole drilling program for a minimum of 3700m. The campaign is following up on the huge 632m copper intersections the company reported earlier this month from a large interpreted copper-gold porphyry system at its Bottletree prospect, part of its larger, wholly owned Greenvale project near Townsville in Queensland.

Coda Minerals has confirmed a new geologically distinct bornite zone in the southern part of its Emmie iron oxide-copper-gold prospect in South Australia. The company’s assay results include a best intercept of 16m at 2.66 per cent copper and 37.5 grams per tonne silver from 812m at the site that forms part of its Elizabeth Creek copper project.

Infinity Lithium continues to strengthen its green hydrogen credibility with the company’s wholly owned Spanish subsidiary, Extremadura New Energies, joining major regional energy transition group SOI H2-ALEX. The alliance is focused on the advancement of green hydrogen developments in the south-west Iberian Peninsula, specifically the Alentejo region in Portugal and the Extremadura region in Spain.

Shares in DiscovEx Resources leapt about 20 per cent on intraday trading after its JV partner, Carnaby Resources, rattled off another striking set of drill intercepts from rolling work at its Greater Duchess copper-gold project near Mt Isa in Queensland. The headline results include a 13m section running 4.4 per cent copper and 0.2 grams per tonne gold from 122m.

After a recent high-profile multi-metal discovery only 200m from its boundary, Conico Limited has quickly seized the bit by booking a multi-purpose diamond and reverse circulation drill rig for a maiden, 5000m program on its Mt Thirsty project in search of platinum group metals 16km north-northwest of Norseman in WA. The company will also kick off a geological review in the wake of its neighbour’s find.

Triangle Energy Global and Key Petroleum have extended the completion of their onshore Perth Basin acreage sale until the end of September due to unforeseen delays, however the pair are confident the deal will be cemented before then. Triangle is soaking up Key’s interests in its L7 and EP 437 permits as the company refocuses its growth strategy from offshore Perth Basin oil towards big inland gas targets.

Venus Metals Corporation has quickly moved onto the second phase of its lithium chasing reverse-circulation drilling campaign at its Henderson project near Menzies in the eastern Goldfields region of WA. The company recently hit returns of 5.8 and 3.6 per cent lithium dioxide at its Emerald SE prospect whilst results from 89 rock samples showed 29 had more than 100 parts-per-million lithium dioxide.

Canadian listed Novo Resources Corporation is forging ahead with a feasibility study on the more-lucrative fresh rock gold resource at its Beatons Creek project in the Pilbara after spending the pa

Cancer fighter Radiopharm Theranostics has inked a deal for the supply of a key component needed to develop its pipeline of radiopharmaceutical therapy products. Radiopharm says its agreement with Israeli company Isotopia Molecular Imaging for a high-quality radioisotope called Lutetium-177 will enable it to accelerate its diverse clinical pipeline of radiopharmaceutical products slated for the multi-billion-dollar oncology market.

Great Southern Mining is ready to start drill testing at its wholly owned East Laverton nickel project in Western Australia’s Goldfields region next month. The company has booked a diamond drill rig and reverse-circulation gear for its first drilling program to test the nickel-copper-PGE prospectivity of its Diorite Hill magmatic complex.

Explorer Horizon Minerals has completed the restructure and demerger of its 25 per cent interest in the Richmond vanadium project in central north Queensland with joint venture partner Richmond Vanadium Technology. The move comes after the pair’s decision that Richmond will be the dedicated IPO vehicle to drive the 1.8 billion-tonne project into completion.

Infinity Lithium has pivoted to an underground mining plan in a bid to win local support for its proposed San José lithium project near the city of Cáceres in the Extremadura region of Spain. The company has been formally invited to present its redesigned development proposal to the Extremadura Regional Government and the Cáceres City Council.

Indonesia-focused explorer Sihayo Gold has followed up its recent high- grade surface samples with strong diamond drilling assays from a 30-hole exploration program that has extended its Sihorbo South target and firmed up the modelling for its maiden mineral resource estimate. Sihorbo South is now shaping up as a satellite operation to the company’s main Sihayo Starter project.

In what is likely to quicken pulses around the ASX floors, Galan Lithium has drawn first blood at its Greenbushes South project in WA, with recent airborne radiometric, magnetic and digital elevation modelling survey data unveiling the first pegmatite lens at the operation. The discovery has the added allure in that it is a mere 15km from the Greenbushes mine, the world’s largest hard-rock lithium deposit.

Meeka Gold looks to be riding a winner after recent RC drilling at its Circle Valley project unveiled another thick zone of shallow gold that continues to highlight the precious metal potential of the site about 85km south of Norseman in Western Australia. The probe was aimed at testing the prospectivity of a patch of dirt below a 1.2km by 400m zone of regolith gold.

Gold and critical minerals explorer Tambourah Metals has confirmed gold-bearing quartz veins at its Tambourah King prospect in the Pilbara after receiving early assay results from drilling completed in March. Results include one hole going 22m at 2.83 grams per tonne gold from 22m, containing 9m at 6.46 g/t from 35m and 1m at 9.86 g/t from 39m.

Okapi Resources is set to dive into a maiden exploration program across a range of projects at its Athabasca Basin uranium tenements in Canada. The company has recently completed a comprehensive analysis of satellite image data from its Newnham Lake and Perch projects showing a bevy of attractive targets that call for a closer look.

Chimeric Therapeutics has cut out significant global supply chain problems facing the cell therapy industry by developing its own viral vector system to deliver its patented treatment for killing brain tumours. Viral vectors are tools commonly used by molecular biologists to deliver genetic material into cells.