Junior explorer Asra Minerals has sold its Tarmoola pastoral lease to goldmining mid-tier Red 5, in a move designed to support its upcoming drilling and exploration campaigns.
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Asra Minerals' Mt Stirling project near Leonora in WA's Goldfields has thrown up traces of highly sought-after “heavy” rare earths in addition to lucrative scandium that stretches from only 2m below surface to the bottom of 40m drill holes. Headline drill numbers include 48m at 90 parts per million scandium oxide from 3m and 7m at 669ppm total rare earths and yttrium oxide from 5m.
Asra Minerals is putting the finishing touches on its 2023 exploration assault at its multi-commodity Mt Stirling project near Leonora in WA following extensive data compilation and a comprehensive technical review. The company's vast land holding, in the shadow of Red 5's King of the Hill gold operations, houses multiple gold resources along with multiple intriguing rare earths and critical metals discoveries at Yttria and Wishbone.
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.
West Perth-based Asra Minerals has appointed experienced geologist and mining executive Rob Longley as its new Managing Director. Longley was General Manager Geology for Sundance Resources in Africa from 2007 to 2015 and CEO and MD of Helios Gold. His most recent position was CEO and MD of minerals explorer Ardiden and he is also a non-executive director of Green Technology Metals.
Junior explorer Asra Minerals has added critical minerals cobalt and scandium to its rollcall of rare earths at its flagship Mt Stirling project in Western Australia. The latest round of drilling was targeting zones of rare earths mineralisation within the shallow blanket of weathered rocks and hit thick zones of scandium oxide mineralisation with anomalous cobalt.
Ongoing exploration across a pair of prospects at Asra Minerals' flagship Mt Stirling Project in WA has returned a clutch of notable rare earths and critical mineral results. The company has so far plunged over 1300 holes for 16,516m at the site and has now confirmed the widespread presence of rare earths, nickel, cobalt and scandium mineralisation in a shallow blanket of weathered rocks.
Gold explorer Zuleika Gold has uncovered further promising results from drilling and soil geochemistry work across the company's large and highly prospective tenement package that sits less than 25km north-west of Kalgoorlie. Some of the best results include a 3m hit going 2.63 g/t gold from 13m and a 223ppb gold anomaly. Once heritage clearance has been received the company plans to kick off its next phase of air core drilling in October.
ASX-listed Asra Minerals has delivered a solid 23 per cent lift to its precious metal inventory at its flagship Mt Stirling project in Western Australia. The total updated mineral resource estimate at the operation has risen to 152,000 gold ounces from a previously tabled 118,384. The company's MS Viserion deposit saw its resources swell 34 per cent for 2.55 million tonnes going 1.7 grams per tonne gold for 137,000 ounces.
Asra Minerals has amassed an extra 2456 hectares of prime real estate at its flagship Mt Stirling multi-commodity project in Western Australia's eastern Goldfields. The 13 freshly minted tenements abut Mt Stirling's southern block and take in a further 4km strike of the prospective Arktos Fault that hosts the company's emerging Yttria and Wishbone rare earths and critical minerals discoveries.
An interim mineralogical report from the University of Queensland on Asra Minerals' Yttria deposit at its Mt Stirling project in WA's eastern goldfields has confirmed the heavy rare earths discovery is suitable for low-cost processing. The company says its initial findings indicate Yttria is a regolith-hosted deposit with the bulk of rare earths associated with secondary oxide minerals that are easy to process.
Asra Minerals is just weeks away from completing its updated gold mineral resource estimate for its Mt Stirling project in WA's eastern Goldfields region that will prioritise the site's open-pit potential. The 74 square kilometre project is 20km north of Leonora and currently has a JORC-compliant resource of about 118,400 gold ounces. Asra says at least 167 holes will be included in its upcoming figure.
Asra Minerals could soon drill up to 50,000m across nine tenements at its Mt Stirling project in WA's eastern Goldfields region after getting its hands on approval to launch a probe for rare earths, cobalt and scandium. The program is intended to evaluate and define an extensive mineralisation footprint at the multi-commodity operation.
Ongoing work at Asra Minerals' Mt Stirling project in the eastern Goldfields region of WA has delivered another stunning set of high-grade gold intercepts that has also extended the operation's mineralisation down-dip. The Perth-based company says recent drilling at the Estera prospect has delivered some of its best results so far across the operation's southern tenements.
Asra Minerals, formerly Torian Resources, has announced new high-grade gold hits at its Mt Stirling project near Leonora in WA, setting the scene for an anticipated resource upgrade, expected later this month. Following the discovery of rare earths at Mt Stirling back in January, Asra has opened up a second front at the project that is rapidly becoming a multi-mineral play.
Torian Resources' Mt Stirling project in the Eastern Goldfields region of WA is scrubbing well and looks set to be a formidable multi-commodity play after the company identified an extensive suite of cobalt and scandium mineralisation that could lead to a significant rebrand for the gold miner. The operation already boasts heavy rare earths potential and a set of gold deposits.
Torian Resources has bolstered its heavy rare earths portfolio after a new discovery at its Mt Stirling project in Western Australia. The company believes ongoing work at the venture has identified additional yttrium oxide mineralisation and has labelled the new prospect Wishbone. Interestingly, the finding is within earshot of its recently announced Yttria heavy rare earths prospect.
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Perth-based explorer Torian Resources has rattled off another clutch of solid gold hits from drilling at its flagship Mt Stirling project 40km north-west of Leonora in Western Australia. According to the company, its latest set of results include a 6-metre section at 2.17 grams per tonne gold from 213 metres with an internal 1m section going 5.95 g/t gold from 215m.
Zuleika Gold says promising results from campaigns at its namesake Zuleika project near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia and its nearby Credo project with joint venture partner Torian Resources have delivered a solid platform to launch its next round of drilling. In the past year the company has sunk approximately 23,000m of air core and RC drilling at the ventures and is now looking to plunge a further 20,000m.
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.
Torian Resources has re-confirmed higher concentrations of Yttrium and associated critical heavy rare earths after further assay work using “fusion digestion” was shown to dissolve the refractory heavy rare earth solution and liberate Yttrium much more effectively. The pulp ore samples analysed were sourced from the company's newly discovered Yttria rare earth prospect within its Mt Stirling gold project in WA.
Torian Resources has delivered gold results up to 18.5 g/t gold at the Mt Stirling project as it builds towards a resource upgrade by mid-April. Key structures are interpreted to be open along strike and at depth providing down dip and along plunge structural gold target zones as the company looks to build resources.
Torian Resources has dished up further high-grade gold hits from recent resource and extensional drilling at its flagship Mt Stirling/Viserion project approximately 40km northwest of Leonora in WA that continues to consistently produce high tenor results. Notable recent results include 1 metre grading 5.57 grams per tonne gold from 20m downhole, 5m at 7.79 g/t gold from 194m and 2m going 15.21 g/t gold from 195m.
Torian Resources continues to rake in the high-grade gold hits at its flagship Mt Stirling gold project approximately 40km north-west of Leonora in WA. The results include an 8-metre intersection returning 8.26 grams per tonne gold from 153m, that held an impressive 5m running at 12.74 g/t from 153m. The company is set to deliver a global mineral resource estimate in the first quarter of this year.
WA's most recent rare earth explorer, Torian Resources has reconfirmed and upgraded significant Yttrium and other heavy rare earth element grades at its exciting Yttria discovery at the company's evolving Mt Stirling gold project in WA. The company has utilised improved assaying techniques to reanalyse samples resulting in a 10 per cent upgrade in values.
Torian Resources has tabled an impressive set of numbers from the latest drilling campaign at its Mt Stirling gold project, approximately 40km north-west of Leonora in WA. The results include a 10-metre intersection at 9.64 grams per tonne gold from 105m, with a brace of internal sections running 6m at 15.14 g/t gold from 105m and 1m grading 25.07 g/t gold from 110m.
Torian Resources has landed a grab bag of significant rare earths hits at its new Yttria prospect at the company's Mt Stirling project in the eastern goldfields of WA. The rare earth elements uncovered include hard to find “heavy” rare earths such as dysprosium and also include terbium, europium, neodymium and yttrium with anomalous cobalt, scandium, nickel, chromium, palladium and platinum added to mix.
Torian Resources has tabled further exemplary gold drill hits adding more value to a rapidly growing gold repository at its flagship Mt Stirling project, some 40 kilometres north-west of Leonora in WA. The latest set of results include a 19 metre section grading at 1.16 grams per tonne gold from 72m downhole with an internal metre going 3.53 g/t gold from 90m.
Torian Resources has clocked up a string of shallow gold intercepts adding to a burgeoning arsenal of strikes at its flagship Mt Stirling project, some 40 kilometres north-west of Leonora in WA. The latest set of results include a 24 metre intersection grading 2.02 grams per tonne gold from 10m downhole with an internal 3m section going 7.09 g/t gold from 17m.
Junior gold explorer, Torian Resources looks set to add rare-earth metals to its arsenal with the discovery of a significant yttrium anomaly at its Mt Stirling project in WA's Eastern Goldfields. A broad one kilometre anomaly has been uncovered at the project with peak values up to 521 parts per million of yttrium. The critically listed rare earth metal is used in renewable technologies including electric vehicles.
Torian Resources has unveiled another string of shallow gold hits from drilling at its flagship Mt Stirling project, some 40 kilometres north-west of Leonora in WA. The latest results include a 4 metre intersection grading 6.67 grams per tonne from 52m downhole and 8m at 1.21 g/t gold from 70m including a 1m section going 2.47 g/t gold from 72m.
Torian Resources has continued its run of gold hits at its 100 per cent owned Mt Stirling project in the Eastern Goldfields of WA that extends its mineralised gold envelope up-dip towards surface. The latest results from its massive 17,500m campaign include a 4 metre section grading 4.76 grams per tonne from 70m downhole, 4m going 1.97 g/t gold from 8m and 7m at 0.78 g/t gold from 42m downhole.
Junior explorer, Torian Resources has scooped a slew of high-grade gold hits at its flagship Mt Stirling gold project, some 40km north-west of Leonora in WA. The company struck a 10m intersection at 3.59 grams per tonne gold from 12m including a 3m hit grading 7.9 g/t gold from 14m in the first planned drillhole at its Mt Stirling-Viserion resource.
Torian Resources has received encouraging news from its Mt Stirling Gold project near Leonora in WA after the company confirmed the presence of primary gold at its Hydra prospect. The best hit from preliminary assay results included a 2 metre intersection grading 2.6 grams per tonne gold from 106m, including a 1m strike going 3.2 grams per tonne gold.
