News Articles for Calidus Resources

Calidus Resources continues to tick off the check list of the required development works for its planned Warrawoona gold mine in the Pilbara region of WA. It says construction of the processing plant is now 85 per cent complete, with overall progress importantly running on time and on budget. Warrawoona is projected to churn out up to 105,000 ounces of gold annually with production forecast to commence in the first half of 2022.

Gold developer, Calidus Resources is set to unleash the rig for a regional gold search aiming to grow its existing 1.7 million ounce resource base in the Pilbara region of WA. The company will drill-test multiple greenfields targets near its Blue Spec resource and in proximity to its multi-deposit Warrawoona project that is set to churn out 90,000 ounces of gold per annum from next year.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources maiden diamond drilling program at its recently acquired Blue Spec deposit has hit pay dirt returning 4.1m at 33.6 g/t gold including 1.1m at a whopping 100.7 g/t gold. The high-grade satellite gold resource is located 75 km's from Calidus' Warrawoona project in WA's prolific Pilbara goldfield. Geotechnical and metallurgical test work is underway as the company works towards finalising a definitive feasibility study.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources has taken two crucial steps in its journey towards becoming Australia's next gold producer completing installation of the mill at its Warrawoona project in WAs Pilbara region and signing a mining services agreement with Macmahon Holdings. Construction is now more than 60 per cent complete with the company on track to pour first gold in the June quarter next year.

Budding gold producer Calidus Resources has been buoyed by visible gold seen in drill core from a quartet of recent diamond holes aimed at verifying its high-grade Blue Spec satellite underground gold resource in WA's prolific Pilbara goldfield. The company is working towards finalising an updated mineral resource estimate for Blue Spec as part of its continuing definitive feasibility study on mining and processing ore from the deposit.

Perth-based miner Calidus Resources is on track to become Australia's next gold producer. Construction at the company's Warrawoona gold operation in the Pilbara region is now more than 50 per cent complete and Calidus is on target to deliver its first gold pour in the first half of next year, defying the challenges of labour shortages and supply disruptions.

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ASX-listed Calidus Resources has an eye firmly on becoming Australia's next gold producer. With “rapid progress” made on several fronts in recent weeks the company says construction at its Warrawoona gold operation in WA's Pilbara is now 40 per cent complete ensuring it is well on track for its first gold pour in the first half of next year.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources has kicked off a round of confirmatory diamond drilling at its high-grade Blue Spec satellite underground gold deposit, which has the potential to increase annual production from its under-construction Warrawoona gold mine in WA's East Pilbara region. The company says it will plug the diamond drilling results into a planned definitive feasibility study on Blue Spec, which lies about 75km from Warrawoona.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources' plant construction at its Warrawoona mining and processing operation about 25km south-east of Marble Bar in the East Pilbara region is well advanced as it draws down the first tranche of funds from a Macquarie Bank $110 million debt facility. The company says its new mine remains on budget and on course to pour first gold in the June quarter next year.

Development of ASX-listed Calidus Resources' Warrawoona gold operation in WA has been progressing at “a rapid rate” as it looks to kick off preliminary mining in the middle of this year with an eye on pouring first gold in the first half of next year. The Perth-based company says construction at Warrawoona, which has an estimated CAPEX of $120 million, remains in line with budget and schedule.

Calidus Resources says it has inked final agreements with Macquarie Bank for project loan facilities totalling $110 million in relation to its developing Warrawoona gold mine in WA's East Pilbara. Under the terms of the debt funding package, the company also locked in a mandatory hedging arrangement covering the delivery of 125,000 ounces of forward gold sales from Warrawoona across the 3.25-year tenor of the loan facilities.

GR Engineering Services has confirmed it will complete the design and construction of a gold processing plant for Calidus Resources under a $75.5 million contract.

Calidus Resources has secured commitments to fund the acquisition and exploration of a gold project in Warrawoona, located in the Pilbara.

ASX-listed budding gold producer, Calidus Resources says its Blue Spec high-grade satellite gold deposit is set to significantly boost annual production at its under-construction Warrawoona gold mine in WA's East Pilbara region, following a Blue Spec “integration” study. According to the study, the company is now looking at forecast gold production averaging 110,000 ounces per annum across the first seven years of production at Warrawoona.

Calidus Resources is barrelling towards gold production at its Warrawoona project in the Pilbara having received approval for its proposed mining operation. The company is now permitted to move into production and has commenced bulk earthworks across the plant site. Calidus has also placed orders for all of the long lead items required for the milling operation and expects to be pouring gold in early 2022.

Diamond drilling by gold producer in waiting, Calidus Resources, has threaded the eye of the needle, striking gold more than 600 metres below surface at its under-construction Warrawoona gold mine in WA's East Pilbara region. According to the company, the narrow, high-grade gold drill hits provide it with plenty of encouragement for a potential longer-term underground mining proposition at Warrawoona.

Sure-footed East Pilbara gold developer, Calidus Resources has inked a farm-in deal to acquire up to 90 per cent of fresh ground, 20km east of its Blue Spec gold project, by spending up to $800k on exploration over six years. Calidus said the highly promising tenement is littered with soil geochemical anomalies and immediately east of a mineralised corridor identified by Novo Resources.

Novo Resources has received a further cash instalment totalling $5 million from fellow aspiring East Pilbara gold producer, Calidus Resources for the staged sale of the uber high-grade historic Blue Spec gold mine and surrounding leases. Calidus now has 25 per cent of the project and if it moves to 100 per cent, Novo will pick up a handy $19.5 million in total.

Calidus Resources has tied up the remaining 30 per cent interest in eight exploration tenements and three application areas surrounding its rapidly developing Warrawoona gold project in a deal with co-owner and fellow Pilbara gold developer, Novo Resources. The final consideration for Calidus to lock up 100 per cent-ownership of the ground was a one per cent net smelter royalty across the tenements payable to Novo upon production.

Set to be one of WA's next gold miners, Calidus Resources has been buoyed by a clutch of solid RC infill drilling results at its under-construction stand-alone Warrawoona gold mining and processing operation in WA's East Pilbara region that have exceeded the project's average ore reserves grade of one gram per tonne gold.

Calidus Resources has bought out another royalty tied to its developing Warrawoona gold project in WA's East Pilbara region that it says will help boost cash flows from the new mining and processing operation. The company sewed up the 1.25 per cent profit royalty over the granted mining leases at Warrawoona, leaving one remaining 1.25 per cent profit royalty attached to the same tenements.

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Emerging gold producer Calidus Resources has launched a $32 million share placement to fund the development of its Warrawoona project in WA.

ASX-listed aspiring gold producer, Calidus Resources, has moved to top up its coffers with a heavily oversubscribed $31.8 million share placement to institutional and sophisticated investors and an additional $5 million placement to eligible existing shareholders. The capital raises come hot on the heels of the company securing $110 million in debt funding for its planned Warrawoona gold mining and processing operation currently in the initial development stages.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources is marching towards the start-up at its flagship Warrawoona gold mining project in WA's Pilbara region after ticking a few infrastructure and permitting boxes. The installation of a 65m tall telecommunications tower is complete, 10 per cent of its 240-bed accommodation village is operational and the company has received regulatory sign-off on its project management plan from WA's Department of Mines and Petroleum.

ASX-listed gold developer, Calidus Resources, has struck a farm-in deal allowing it to earn up to 75 per cent of a greenfields gold project, which sits immediately along strike from the high-grade Blue Spec gold project and about 75km from its flagship, under-construction Warrawoona gold mining and processing operation in WA.

ASX-listed aspiring gold producer, Calidus Resources, has extended the strike length of known gold mineralisation at its Coronation satellite deposit only 8km from the company's developing Warrawoona gold project in WA's East Pilbara following encouraging near-surface drill results. Better intersections from its recent 29-hole round of RC drilling at Warrawoona were 14m going 3.77 g/t gold from 52m and 3m at 4.00 g/t from 54m.

Calidus Resources has bought out the royalty attached to the tenements covering most of the ore reserves at its developing Warrawoona gold project in WA's East Pilbara region. The company will issue 4 million Calidus shares to the vendors and says removing the net smelter return royalty tied to the project will free up more cash flow during the early years of gold production at Warrawoona.

ASX-listed gold developer, Calidus Resources, appears to have locked in the final step on its pathway to production securing $110 million debt funding from Macquarie Bank towards the development of its new Warrawoona gold mine. As part of the debt financing package, Calidus also entered into an associated gold hedging facility covering approximately 105,000 ounces of forward gold production from Warrawoona.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources has added one of the richest-grade gold mines in the Pilbara hinterland to its growing arsenal of projects after striking a deal with Canadian miner Novo Resources Corporation for the Blue Spec gold mine near Nullagine in WA. The deal will also see Calidus pick up the smaller Gold Spec mine to the south.

Calidus Resources has stepped up its exploration program in the Pilbara, completing first pass drilling over the Otways copper prospect near Nullagine in WA. Reconnaissance drilling has confirmed the results of previous work, delineating wide intercepts of near-surface copper mineralisation including an impressive 40m at 0.70 per cent copper, hosting 10m at 1.64 per cent copper, from surface.

ASX-listed aspiring gold producer, Calidus Resources, remains on track for the main construction phase of its new $120 million Warrawoona mine development in WA's East Pilbara to kick off in the first quarter next year with steady progress being made in the project's early capital works program. The company says it has also ordered long lead items including a SAG mill.

As it marches towards production start-up at the rapidly developing $120 million Warrawoona gold mine in WA's East Pilbara, ASX-listed Calidus Resources has identified a veritable treasure trove of regional gold targets as part of a strategy to accelerate exploration work over the company's Pilbara tenure in parallel with the project build.

Calidus Resources will begin construction on its Warrawoona gold project in the Pilbara early next year, with initial capital costs expected to be $120 million.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources has increased the underground ore reserves component of its planned $120 million Warrawoona mine in WA's East Pilbara as part of the budding gold producer's just-released definitive feasibility study on the project. The DFS showed free cash flows after tax of $447 million or $53.85 million a year and an average EBITDA of $110 million per annum over an initial mine life of 8.3 years.

Calidus Resources continues to gain momentum in its run up to gold production in the Pilbara, securing ownership of a further 219,000-ounces of high-grade gold resources from the Blue Spec mine north of Nullagine in WA just 70km south east of the company's developing Warrawoona gold project. Blue Spec's in-ground resource comes at a stunning grade of 16.3 g/t gold.

Calidus Resources has signed an agreement to buy a high-grade gold project for $19.5 million, which will use infrastructure from the company's proposed Warrawoona mine.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources has started early capital works at its planned $116 million Warrawoona mine about 25km south-east of Marble Bar in WA's East Pilbara. The company says it has now locked in the preferred major mining and engineering contractors for the project that is expected to turn out free cash flows of $58.5 million a year against all-in sustaining costs to produce each ounce of gold of just $1,250.

ASX-listed gold developer, Calidus Resources, has cleared the critical final ministerial environmental approval hurdle for its planned $116 million Warrawoona mine 20km south-east of Marble Bar in WA's East Pilbara region. The company is now progressing debt financing negotiations and says it has plenty of interest from debt providers as it looks to short-list potential lenders next month ahead of the project's definitive feasibility study being tabled.