Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

Nickel-focused Estrella Resources continues to intersect more nickel-copper sulphides in drilling at its Carr Boyd nickel project 80km north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The company says it has hit a cumulative 17.5m of disseminated and blebby sulphides within a broader zone about 24m wide. The finding comes from 782m down a deep hole targeting below the company’s T5 nickel discovery.

Battery metals explorer Askari Metals is scoping several significant lithium exploration zones after project-wide targeting and modelling at its Yarrie Lithium project in Western Australia. The company says it plans to put its model to the test with an upcoming foray into the field as early as mid-April. During the program, Askari will sample in a variety of ways, including stream sediments and rock chips in addition to mapping.

American West Metals continues to put runs on the board after it stumped up a whopping 157-metre intercept of visual zinc and copper massive sulphide mineralisation from its fourth diamond drill hole at its West Desert project in Utah. The company says the rods are still spinning in its quest to expose the full extent of the underexplored resource.

Horizon Minerals has released positive results from a pre-feasibility study of its Cannon underground gold project. The project is projected to generate $10.1m of net cash flow over a 16-month mine life at a cost of $1873 per ounce of gold. Cannon is part of the company’s 1.15-million-ounce gold resource and ongoing cash flow is planned with the Cannon mine followed by further underground mines Penny’s Find and Rose Hill.

Venture Minerals has completed highly encouraging metallurgical drilling and appointed a senior mining engineer to complete its feasibility study for a new underground tin mine at Mount Lindsay, Tasmania. The undeveloped tin project is one of the largest in the world with more than 80,000 tonnes of tin and a globally significant critical metal content of 3,200,000 metric tonnes of tungsten.

Twenty Seven Co. has completed a 335-hole auger drilling program at its wholly-owned Yarbu gold project. Drilling targeted soil gold anomalies with more than 20 parts per billion gold in soil, where combined lead-zinc values were also anomalous. The highest priority target was a soil gold anomaly with dimensions of 1.9 km by 1.4km returning gold results up to 164 parts per billion.

Battery metals trailblazer Neometals and its partner SMS Group, have cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the joint venture’s lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Germany, marking the transition from a research and development program to a fully-fledged commercial enterprise. The partners are gearing up to recycle as much as 10 tonnes per day of battery feedstock, sourced from a German battery waste company.

Si6 Metals has unearthed promising hints of gold from an air core drilling blitz across a plethora of underexplored targets at its Monument gold project. The company is on the hunt for bulk-tonnage, syenite or ‘intrusive’ igneous rock-hosted gold mineralisation similar in style to the geological setting hosting Gold Field’s nearby seven-million-ounce Wallaby gold deposit, also in the Laverton Tectonic Zone in Western Australia.

St George Mining has identified five new nickel copper targets at its Mt Alexander project. The company said the conceptual targets are large and compelling, with little or no previous drilling. Seismic surveys are to be expanded to cover the new zones. Infill and extensional diamond drilling is also aiming at known, high-grade mineralisation in a bid to expand the Investigators and Stricklands deposits.

West Australian iron ore player CZR Resources has received more assays that seemingly support its strategy to grow mine life and production rates at its Robe Mesa iron ore project in the west Pilbara. The company says the project is poised for significant growth as the latest assays continue to reveal extensive direct shipping ore mineralisation from the surface and outside the resource area.

Podium Minerals has returned a set of exciting values in a re-assay of historic platinum group element intercepts that confirm high levels of rhodium and iridium mineralisation at its Parks Reef PGM project in WA. Assay results from 31 historic holes for over 700 samples confirm high-grade and high-value rhodium levels with more than 2,100 samples still awaiting assay results.

Neometals continues to lead from the front in the developing battery-chain supply network, sinking US$500,000 into private US battery start-up, Tyfast Energy Corp. A spin-off from the University of California, San Diego, Tyfast is the keeper of a proprietary vanadium-based anode technology set to drastically reduce charging times without compromising the high-energy density found in state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries.

Coda Minerals is finding further potential at its flagship Elizabeth Creek copper project in SA’s world-class Gawler Craton. The latest drill hole intersected a distinct copper-rich zone, indicating a possible southeast expansion of the interpreted IOCG mineralisation. It says a geologically distinct, copper-rich ‘bornite’ dominated zone was intercepted and an independent re-evaluation of the emerging area demonstrates its potential for more.

Infinity Lithium is on the front foot in developing the skills it will need as it pushes forward with developing its San José industrial lithium processing project near the Spanish city of Cáceres. The company has signed a collaboration agreement with the Extremadura Electric Mobility Cluster and the local business association LOABRE to provide training for local members within the framework of renewable energies.

Torian Resources has racked up additional significant gold intercepts that extend the resource boundaries at the company’s flagship Mt Stirling project just 8km from Red 5’s King Of The Hills gold mine in WA that has produced more than one million ounces of gold. Significant drill results recently returned include 33 metres grading 1.78 grams per tonne gold from 196m downhole.

Having just received the keys to its Sandstone project in Western Australia, gold developer Aurumin Limited is gearing up to begin systematically exploring with an initial round of auger drilling. The vehicle-mounted program, due to kick off next week, is designed to build on five near-mill targets handed over from the previous owner – plus test a further 36 targets generated by the company.

Aurum Resources has submitted its samples for assay from a maiden 18-hole drill program at its Penny South gold project located on the same interpreted structure as the Ramelius Resources owned Penny West and Penny North deposits in Sandstone, Western Australia. The company has opted for the fast-track photon assay process that cuts turnaround times from 6-12 weeks to just two.

In a win for minor shareholders of successful mineral sands producer Image Resources, board members have seen off an attempt by large Chinese backed activist shareholder Murray Zircon Pty Ltd to dispense with directors who delivered almost $20m profit for the company last year. Ninety-six per cent of voting shareholders voted against the six spill motions albeit the vote was close given Murray Zircon’s substantial holding.

ASX-listed Meeka Gold appears to be unlocking more rare earths potential at its Circle Valley gold project 95 kilometres north of Esperance in Western Australia. The explorer says it has now defined ionic adsorption clay mineralisation over an area of 7km by 5km, yielding higher than 300 parts per million total rare earths oxides.

Brightstar Resources has amassed a solid drill budget following an oversubscribed capital raising in March that it plans to put to good use in a 10,000m RC and diamond blitz at its flagship Cork Tree Well gold project near Laverton in WA. The company plans to target extensions to known mineralisation to grow its resource base in addition to investigating the prospectivity of other early-stage targets nearby.

Soil sampling has given Aurumin Limited the belief it could have lithium in its Mt Palmer project that straddles Western Australia’s town of Southern Cross. Analysis of elements associated with the battery metal lit up multiple targets, including some coincident with historical pegmatite intercepts of up to 50m that had previously only been tested for gold.

Buoyed by surging demand and market outlook for silver and zinc, Horizon Minerals has completed a data review and concept study at its wholly-owned Nimbus project, 15km from Kalgoorlie-Boulder in W

Galan Lithium could be closing in on the key battery metal at its Greenbushes South project in WA after recent exploration work at the venture highlighted anomalous pathfinder mineralisation in soil samples and rock chips. According to the company, the samples show the trace elements could support pegmatites similar to those found in the nearby Greenbushes mine, the world’s largest hard rock lithium deposit.

Radiopharm has agreed on commercial terms to commence its first phase of lung cancer trials in Australia with renowned global oncology provider GenesisCare. The program aims to start testing Radiopharm’s proprietary nanobodies, part of its Nano-mAbs platform, by targeting non-small cell lung cancer, the most common type of the disease. The project is scheduled to be completed within 18 months.

Cyclone Metals has added a diversified portfolio of gold, copper, nickel and PGE assets in New Zealand to its stable after completing the acquisition of Grand Port Resources and its wholly owned subsidiaries Midway Resources Limited and Nimitz Resources. Under the terms of the agreement, Cyclone will grant Grand Port 900 million shares and the right to nominate one board member to join Cyclone's Board.

Godolphin Resources is poised to sink two diamond drill holes totalling 900m at its Yeoval and Cyclops prospects in NSW. The company says the holes are part of an initial probe aimed at testing the extent of the project's existing mineral resource estimate of 12.8m tonnes at 0.38 per cent copper, 0.14 grams per tonne gold, 2.2 g/t silver and 1200 parts per million molybdenum.

The shallow, gold orebody at Classic Minerals’ flagship Kat Gap project has been revealed for the first time. The gold explorer says the ground-breaking exposure is only 7m below the surface and comes from a shallow hole in the floor of the bulk sample mining pit. The company plans to remove the remaining overburden after a three-kilogram sample was crushed and panned yielding fine visible gold.

Regulatory approval for its Tarcoola gold project has Barton Gold fast-tracking towards its upcoming drilling programs in South Australia’s Gawler Craton. The company will be testing targets generated in recently completed gravity surveys, including a large-scale anomaly that sits beneath the existing open pit that, in 2018 yielded a 1m hit grading an astonishing 607.75 g/t gold from 17m within a larger 11m going 73.31 g/t from a shallow 11m.

Minerals explorer Panther Metals has hit a new high from drilling at its Coglia project in the Laverton region of WA with initial assays delivering the best nickel and cobalt grades to date at the venture. The headline results were a 1m intercept going 3.77 per cent nickel from 74m in one hole and another 1m section at 3160 parts per million cobalt from 49m in another.

Indonesia-focused gold explorer, Sihayo Gold has produced some eye-catching drilling results including a standout strike that returned 2.1m going 74 g/t gold and 119 g/t silver from 112.8m downhole in North Sumatra. The results come from a southern target outside the company’s existing mineral resource and Sihayo aims to incorporate the high-grade mineralisation into its Starter project.

88 Energy has struck oil after successfully reaching total depth in the Merlin-2 appraisal well in Alaska and is now waiting on wireline logging results to confirm whether oil will actually flow to surface from the target Nanushuk Formations. The company said it would take between seven and ten days to complete logging the 100 per cent owned well.

Horizon Minerals has updated its open pit ore reserve figures at the company’s Lilyvale vanadium deposit in Queensland to a solid 560 million tonnes grading 0.48 per cent vanadium at a 0.3 per cent cut-off. A bankable feasibility study has also progressed through offtake and alliance discussions with battery and electrolyte manufacturers, onshore refining assessments and project approvals for advancement to major project status.