This week's appointments include Robert Mencel, Neema Premji, Louise Pratt, Peter Chellew, Enzo Evangelista, Arron Minchin, Jamie Stewart, Vanessa Torres, Gerard Danckert, Michelle Carey, Rebecca Hamilton, Dennis O'Reilly, and others.
Estrella Resources has reached a key milestone after securing approval to extract up to 30,000 tonnes of high-grade manganese from its Ira Miri project in Timor-Leste. The bulk sampling program will allow the company to demonstrate the ore's quality to potential buyers, while generating local employment and advancing the project towards commercial development.
Estrella Resources has strengthened its leadership with the appointment of seasoned mining executive Robert Mencel as chief executive officer, positioning the company to advance its limestone and manganese assets in Timor-Leste. Mencel brings more than 25 years of global project development experience, including multiple greenfield builds, as Estrella shifts focus towards development, funding and future production.
Estrella Resources has rolled out another set of manganese-rich results from its Ira Miri project in Timor-Leste, with several high-grade intervals hinting at the potential for multiple stacked manganese horizons. The company says it has also wrapped up drilling at its adjacent Werumata limestone project, which exposed thick carbonate layers and a fresh limestone unit at depth, with promising early commerciality indications.
Estrella Resources has delivered another set of exceptional assay results assaying up to 58 per cent manganese from its Ira Miri prospect in Timor-Leste, confirming the project as an emerging high-grade sedimentary manganese system. The company's drilling has returned multiple intervals above 50 per cent manganese with low impurities, including standout manganese results of 58.02 per cent in one hole and 55.1 per cent in a second.
Estrella Resources has upped the exploration tempo in Timor-Leste after a fresh geophysical survey at its Ira Miri manganese project lit up three high-grade subsurface targets sitting between just 5 and 25 metres below surface. The anomalies line up cleanly with previous drilling that returned manganese oxide zones up to 80 per cent, giving the company a new batch of priority shots for its 2026 field season.
Estrella Resources says it is on track to unearth a monster 500m tonne limestone resource at its Werumatamata project in Timor Leste after drilling logged large sheets of valuable mineralisation up to 87m thick. The company says the average width logged within the limestone blanket at the project is 55m and it also encountered an unexpected bonus in the form of calcite intersected beneath the target zone, potentially hinting at significant additional tonnes than first thought.
Estrella Resources has launched its maiden drilling campaign at the Werumata limestone project in Timor-Leste. The company is targeting high-purity calcite limestone across six diamond and 26 RC holes to underpin a potential 500 million-tonne JORC resource. With early drilling ahead of schedule and an offtake deal in sight, Estrella is accelerating its growth story in the new mining frontier that was formally East Timor.
Estrella Resources has rolled out a string of new manganese-rich hits from its Ira Miri prospect in Timor-Leste, stretching the mineralised strike to almost 100 metres and it is still open both ways. The latest round of diamond drilling logged spectacular visual grades of up to 90 per cent manganese oxide as the company continues to shape what it believes could be a new manganese province.
Estrella Resources has kicked off RC drilling at its Werumata limestone project in Timor-Leste, targeting a 500-million-tonne resource. Approvals have been secured and drilling is imminent, as the company eyes an early offtake deal. Estrella's environmental impact statement and management plan have been given the green light, paving the way for it to launch its maiden drilling campaign in about two weeks.
Estrella Resources has drilled thick supergene manganese at its Ira Miri prospect in Timor-Leste, estimated at up to 12.87m at 80% oxides. The zones remain open to the northwest and southeast and follow the trend of the Noni Formation. Step-out drilling continues and assays are expected in 6-8 weeks, as manganese demand surges for the steel and battery markets.
Estrella Resources has hit manganese at its Ira Miri project in Timor-Leste, including 2.5m at 70% manganese oxides. The company has LiDAR and drone-borne geophysical surveys underway to guide its exploration and drill targeting. Estrella has completed LiDAR surveys at its Werumata limestone project and is waiting on approvals to drill.
Estrella Resources has turbocharged its maiden campaign in Timor-Leste, revealing a string of thick, high-grade manganese hits of up to 53% from its Ira Miri prospect. The assays mark a breakthrough for the company's maiden drill program at Ira Miri, confirming widespread near-surface mineralisation and reshaping its exploration strategy as it locks onto primary and secondary manganese beds within the region's little-known Noni Formation.
Estrella Resources has launched LiDAR, drone magnetics and MobileMTd surveys across 3200ha of its Ira Miri and Werumata prospects in Timor-Leste to refine modelling of its manganese and limestone targets. The surveys will also improve targeting accuracy, with results expected to guide ongoing drilling at Ira Miri and imminent resource-definition drilling at Werumata to support a JORC-compliant limestone resource by November.
Estrella Resources has shifted its Timor-Leste exploration into high gear after picking up visuals of rich manganese mineralisation running up to 80 per cent at the Ira Miri prospect. The company is also preparing to collect a 30,000-tonne manganese bulk sample at site and planning a drill program at its billion-tonne Werumata limestone target in Baucau.
Estrella Resources has pulled in a hefty $5 million from a strategic investor who exercised a second option to buy 136.76 million shares at 3.65 cents per share and at a 500 per cent premium to the first conversion in September. The cash boost will be used to fund drilling exploration on the company's manganese and limestone prospects in Timor-Leste, where Estrella recently made some exciting discoveries.
Estrella Resources has struck 7.76m of manganese oxide just below surface at its Ira Miri project in Timor-Leste. The intercept confirms the company's geological model and follows a successful site visit attended by East Timor's Prime Minister. With drilling ramping up and assays pending, Estrella is accelerating exploration in the region, supported by enthusiastic community and government backing.
Estrella Resources has deployed the heavy-duty diamond rig to build on a recent high-grade massive manganese discovery at its Ira Miri prospect in Timor-Leste. The company says it has uncovered further significant new supergene manganese outcrop at the project some 350m north of its discovery hole and believes it to be a direct continuation of the discovery.
Estrella Resources has made a landmark discovery in its maiden exploration program in Timor-Leste, intersecting a thick 6.45m zone of massive manganese oxides just 1.35m below surface at its Ira Miri prospect. In what marks the first modern metallic minerals drillhole sunk in the country, Estrella's initial diamond hole confirmed high-grade manganese mineralisation right from the outset, which is still open at 7.8m depth.
Estrella Resources has launched Timor-Leste's first modern metallic mineral exploration by drilling its maiden hole at the Ira Miri manganese prospect. In a JV with Murak Rai Timor and CoreSearch, Estrella has mobilised a man-portable rig from Dili to Lautem. The program includes 3000m of diamond and 20,000m of RC drilling across two phases, targeting manganese within the Noni Formation.
Estrella Resources has inked a landmark deal that could see up to 500 million tonnes of limestone exported from Timor-Leste over five years, targeting South East Asia's surging industrial minerals demand. The binding agreement with Indonesian group PT Raka Energi Mandiri grants exclusive rights to market and sell Estrella's high-grade, calcite-rich limestone from its extensive Timor-Leste tenements.
Estrella Resources has notched yet another landmark achievement in Timor-Leste, formally East Timor, announcing the first conversion of permits into exploration licenses under the mineral-rich country's new mining laws. The newly minted licenses will enable the company to deploy ground-disturbing exploration methods, including all-important maiden drilling campaigns, set to kick-off upon receipt of the nation's first ever drill rig.
Estrella Resources is set to make history in Timor-Leste by launching the country's first mineral exploration drilling campaign at its Ira Miri, Sica and Lalena manganese prospects. Partnering with experienced in-country operator CoreSearch Minerals, a division of the experienced H2O group, Estrella is investing US$200,000 to mobilise a fully equipped RC and diamond drilling rig into the country's northwest.
Estrella Resources has jagged a rich deposit of transported alluvial manganese at its Soru prospect within the company's Lautém manganese project in Timor-Leste, with visual grades running as high as 95pc. The manganese may have leached from the surrounding hills due to erosion to form a supergene deposit before breaking up and creating a tertiary deposit of boulders and rock fragments across the hillside and in the local creek systems.
Estrella Resources has received some stunning assay results from rock chip sampling from two in-situ supergene manganese discoveries at its Lautém project in Timor-Leste, with grades up to a striking 58.6 per cent manganese. Bulk determinations for detrital material accumulated on valley floors average a whopping 40.1pc manganese.
Metals used for steel alloys, once considered the poor cousins to iron ore, are starting to come into vogue, with both big and small players moving heaven and earth to uncover the next big discovery of metals vital to the massive global steel industry. The coveted group includes manganese, vanadium, molybdenum and others and Australia has rich resources of all of them.
Estrella Resources has received encouraging responses from its first geophysical survey line across its recently discovered Ira Miri manganese zone at Lautém in Timor-Leste, prompting its maiden drilling campaign. The low resistivity anomaly is interpreted as a potential target for supergene manganese and aligns with previously reported outcrop mapped onsite, although more work is required to gauge the potential scale of the anomalism.
Amid a grand celebration of the WA ASX-listed small cap company community on Friday night, Larvotto Resources triumphed to take out the coveted Bulls N' Bears “Peak Performer of the Year” award after achieving a peak share price hike of 993 per cent. Estrella Resources took out the other major award and is the Bulls N' Bears “Runner of the Year”, claiming a 240 per cent share price jump from January to November 2024.
Estrella Resources' trial of induced polarisation technology at its manganese project in Timor-Leste has proved highly responsive and will be a critical tool for identifying supergene mineralisation. The trial was designed to run a survey line across ground Estrella could see was likely to host supergene mineralisation and then, by pairing up the results with visual observations, confirm the exploration method as valid.
Estrella Resources has uncovered not one but two supergene manganese discoveries at its Lautém project in Timor-Leste. The reportedly high-grade manganese assets were uncovered using the company's predictive modelling of its prospective Noni rock formations. Estrella says its Ira Miri and Sica discoveries are around 4.5km apart just outside the town of Lautém and feature some of the highest-grade rock chips sampled to date.
Estrella Resources has jagged what the company says is its biggest-ever manganese outcrop in Timor-Leste – a massive supergene zone discovered 500m south of its Samalari prospect during ongoing mapping efforts. The recent find is particularly important due to the sheer scale of the manganese-iron oxides-rich outcrop that has been traced across a 1.7km strike and ranges between 2m and 6m in width.
Global metals-trading giant Glencore has cast its eye across Estrella Resources' manganese ground in Timor-Leste, where the latter has unveiled high-grade rock-chip assays hitting up to 57 per cent manganese at its Sica and Lalena prospects in the nation's Lautém Municipality. The results, which highlight the high-grade nature of manganese mineralisation in the largely untapped region, have marked a major step forward for Estrella's exploration.
Estrella Resources has revealed high-grade manganese in Timor-Leste just days after nailing down new exploration licenses at its Samalari prospect in the nation's Baucau Municipality. The site is showing manganese oxide mineralisation along a 1.7km strike zone with widths of up to 5m and early samples have returned impressive hits going up to 53.9 per cent manganese, according to analysis from Australian Laboratory Services.
Estrella Resources has locked up four extra exploration and evaluation concessions to kick off Timor-Leste's newly-instituted 2021 mining code direct grant process. The leases, which are particularly prospective for manganese, sit in the Southeast Asian country's western Baucau Municipality and add to its four exploration licences, 30km to the north-east, that it picked up last year.
Mineral exploration junior Estrella Resources has expanded its manganese footprint in Timor Leste, after being granted four additional exploration and evaluation licences.
A world-first survey using the effects of lightning strikes to test electrical conductivity in rocks at Estrella Resources' Carr Boyd project in WA has earned the company a Federal Government grant. The cutting-edge heliborne survey initially conducted by Expert Geophysics in August last year, harnesses traditional electromagnetic pulse data in conjunction with lightning strike pulses triggered by storms constantly raging over the Equator.
Estrella Resources has applied for four additional exploration and evaluation licenses, identified as containing rich outcropping manganese, in Timor-Leste's Baucau municipality. The new coastal licenses, which are 8km west of the company's existing grounds, cover an area of 194.4 square kilometres. If granted, the additional prospects would bring Estrella's total landholding in the country to nearly 700 square kilometres.
Estrella Resources is continuing to deliver the goods at its Lautém project in virgin Timor-Leste, with the discovery of new supergene manganese mineralisation exposed from surface at its Sica prospect. The company also received “exceptional” assay results from grab samples taken at several nearby prospects, with grades reaching as high as 57 per cent manganese.
Estrella Resources has inked a milestone joint venture and royalty deed with Murak Rai Timor (MRT), the State-run mining arm of the Timor-Leste Government, to explore for manganese, copper and gold in that country. Estrella will hold 70 per cent of the newly-formed venture that includes three exploration licenses covering a landholding of 121.5 square metres, with MRT holding 30 per cent.
