Japanese giant Sumitomo Metal Mining has announced it will become a significant shareholder in West Perth-based junior Ardea Resources, following a $4.6 million investment.
Ardea Resources has secured a pivotal $4.6 million strategic placement from Japanese joint venture partner Sumitomo Metal Mining to progress the company's mammoth Kalgoorlie Nickel project in Western Australia. The cash injection will primarily fuel working capital, ensuring Ardea's expert team continues to drive the ongoing $98.5M definitive feasibility study, which Sumitomo will pay for.
Ardea Resources has completed a 287-hole infill reverse circulation drilling program to support potential resource classification upgrades at its vast Goongarrie Hub nickel project, 5km south of Menzies. The company drilled 186 holes at its Big Four prospect for 10,238m, while 101 holes were put in at Scotia Dam for 6332m. Ardea has sampled a total of 16,570m of vertical holes at 2m intervals over their full depths.
East Perth-based contractor Lycopodium has secured a definitive feasibility contract at Ardea Resources' Kalgoorlie nickel-cobalt project, valued at $5.4 million.
Ardea Resources has hit the ground running at its massive Goongarrie Hub nickel laterite project in WA's Goldfields with four drill rigs active and several work contracts already awarded. Supported by mega joint venture partners Sumitomo and Mitsubishi, the $98.5 million DFS is looking to prove up the economics of turning the project into a low-cost, multi-decade laterite nickel-cobalt producer.
Ardea Resources has hit a major milestone in the development of its Goongarrie Hub nickel-cobalt project in Western Australia after executing a binding agreement with a giant Japanese consortium. It now locks away a 50:50 joint venture with Sumitomo Metal Mining and Mitsubishi Corporation in a deal where the consortium has committed to funding a $98.5 million definitive feasibility study to earn into the project.
Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has given its approval for a powerful Japanese consortium consisting of Sumitomo Metal Mining and Mitsubishi Corporation to join forces with Ardea Resources for the development of the Goongarrie Hub operation within the latter's giant Kalgoorlie Nickel Project (KNP) in Western Australia's Goldfields region. A joint venture (JV) agreement was signed by the three parties in April this year.
The Foreign Investment Review Board has given the green light for a “globally significant” joint venture to develop a nickel-cobalt resource near Kalgoorlie.
In tough recent times for many junior mining companies on the ASX, luring a financially-powerful “big dog” onto the share register to provide some much-needed muscle has become a common boardroom pursuit. Bulls N' Bears takes look at some of those companies which have received both a timely cash injection and a share price boost up to recent highs.
Ardea Resources has launched a $98.5 million definitive feasibility study, fully funded by a powerhouse Japanese consortium, for its giant Goongarrie Hub nickel project that sits 70km north-west of Kalgoorlie in WA's Eastern Goldfields region. The Goongarrie Hub is an integral part of the company's Kalgoorlie nickel project that embraces a collection of deposits combining to host what it says is the biggest nickel-cobalt resource in the developed world.
Ardea Resources has kicked off definitive feasibility study drilling planned to stretch for 51,745m in 888 holes at the Goongarrie Hub nickel project that it now shares with a giant Japanese consortium in the Western Australian Goldfields town of Kalgoorlie. The aim is to upgrade the project's massive nickel-cobalt resource to the coveted measured mineral category to boost the confidence in its initial five-year plan.
Ardea Resources' high-tech mineral processing technique has boosted the nickel-cobalt inventory at its Goongarrie Hub project near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and earned it a healthy Federal Government grant of $1.1 million. It comes less than two months after a giant Japanese consortium committed to backing the development of the project described by the Federal Government as “globally significant”.
A giant Japanese consortium has committed to backing the development of Ardea Resources' Goongarrie Hub project in Western Australia's Goldfields region – a major milestone for the nickel-cobalt operation billed by the Federal Government as “globally significant”. Sumitomo Metal Mining and Mitsubishi Corporation have agreed to join Ardea to form an incorporated joint venture to be known as Kalgoorlie Nickel.
What made share prices rise in 2023? Bulls N' Bears will take a look in the next few days, starting with Ardea Resources. Its stock jumped 162 per cent in a busy four days during the middle of last year on the back of a mineral resource upgrade and a mammoth prefeasibility study for its Goongarrie Hub nickel-cobalt deposits in Western Australia's Goldfields region.
Institutional and sophisticated investors have supported a $16 million raise for ASX-listed Ardea Resources to fund a study for its Kalgoorlie nickel project.
Brightstar Resources has inked an earn-in agreement with DevEx Resources on two of the former's Goongarrie project exploration licences. The deal will see Brightstar retain all gold rights, while DevEx can earn up 75 per cent of the non-gold rights by exploring for nickel along the northward extensions of existing and historic deposits within the Highway ultramafic.
Inaugural drilling in three locations at Brightstar Resources' new Menzies gold project has returned multiple high-grade hits of up to 39g/t gold in initial assays from the first 10 holes of a recently completed 37-hole program, for a total of 4486m. Management says its work confirms high grades typical of the historic underground mines of the Menzies goldfields.
Ardea Resources and Brightstar Resources have agreed to a tenement swap as the former looks to expand its Kalgoorlie nickel project Goongarrie Hub, while the latter builds its Menzies gold-lithium operation. Brightstar will acquire all mineral rights to 10 prospecting licenses immediately adjacent to or along strike at its existing holdings, in addition to gold and lithium rights to another exploration license.
Ardea Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Japanese consortium to develop a sub-set of its Kalgoorlie nickel project after tabling a price tag of $3.18 billion.
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Ardea Resources' Kalgoorlie nickel project has been granted major project status by the federal government amid a heightened period of activity for the commodity.
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.
Gold hopeful, Kingwest Resources has turned in the first assays from its inaugural aircore drilling campaign at the Goongarrie gold project and they have not disappointed. The initial report card reads well with one of the best hits returning a stellar 38m at 3.1 g/t gold from 62m, including 6m at 17.2 g/t from 94m downhole. The project sits almost on the main highway between Kalgoorlie and Menzies.
Anglo Australian Resources is seeking to raise $14 million for its gold project near Kalgoorlie, while fellow explorers Ardea Resources and Surefire Resources have also announced capital raisings.
Ardea Resources has received plenty of encouragement from the first RC drilling the company has undertaken at its Aphrodite North gold project, 80km north of Kalgoorlie, with significant gold hits encountered in newly delineated mineralised lodes. Notable intersections from a seven-hole program were 6m going 3.60 grams per tonne gold from 44m including 2m at 9.99 g/t and 8m at 4.94 g/t from 172m including 4m at 9.42 g/t.
Three Western Australian companies led by experienced mining executives are hoping to defy the slump in new stock market listings by launching initial public offerings over the past week.
Ardea Resources has released an expansion study for its Goongarrie nickel-cobalt project in Kalgoorlie, with the company detailing a 2.3mtpa capacity at a cost of $1.17 billion.
Mark Connelly has resigned as non-executive director at Ausdrill. Mr Connelly has held various senior management positions for other resource companies including Adamus Resources and New
Wayne Trumble and Philip Clark have retired as non-executive directors of African Energy Resources, but will continue to provide consultancy services when required.
