Our board moves wrap includes Peter Duerden, David Flanagan, Jonathan Downes, Richard O'Shannassy, Adam McKinnon, Andrew Ferrier, David Nour, Hannah Hudson, and Russell Thomson.
Okapi Resources has appointed highly experienced mining executive Andrew Ferrier as the company's new Managing Director. Ferrier brings with him over 15 years' experience in corporate finance, management and principal investment roles in the global mining sector. He previously spent over a decade at Pacific Road Capital - a mining and metals-focused private equity investment firm with interests across Australia, Canada and the US.
Perth-based Okapi Resources has entered into an agreement with Canada's ALX Resources to acquire a portfolio of six advanced exploration projects in the Athabasca Basin - the world's premier uranium district. The projects include 75 granted mineral claims covering an impressive 55,000 hectares. Okapi will initially focus on the Cluff Lake and Newnham Lake projects where it will target high-grade unconformity-related uranium deposits.
Okapi Resources has wasted no time in producing a maiden uranium resource at its Tallahassee uranium project in Colorado, USA. The company only finalised the acquisition in August and has already announced a maiden resource of 25.4 million tonnes going at 490 ppm U3O8 for 27.6 million pounds of yellowcake. Plans are now underway to commence a 10,000-metre maiden drilling program to bolster the resource further.
Okapi Resources has acquired additional high-grade uranium pounds adjacent to its existing tenure on a new mining lease executed with the State of Colorado. Okapi has secured a 100 per cent interest in 640 acres of prospective acreage around the High Park uranium deposit. Black Range Minerals previously established a JORC 2012 resource of 2.48 million pounds U3O8 at 570ppm U3O8 in the new project area.
Okapi Resources has pressed ahead with its acquisition of the Enmore gold project about 30km south-east of Armidale in the New England fold belt in NSW after satisfying minimum expenditure and drilling requirements under the terms of the original purchase agreement. The company has elected to make the first milestone payment of $300,000 to the Enmore vendor through the issue of Okapi shares, subject to shareholder approval.
Multi-mineral exploration company, Okapi Resources has snapped up a 100 per cent interest in the historical Sunnyside uranium mine in Utah, USA, after staking mining claims that cover 960 acres adjacent to Okapi's existing Rattler uranium project. The Sunnyside uranium mine comprises several small past-producing pits where uranium and vanadium were both mined in the early 1900's at high grades. The project has seen no modern exploration since.
Mineral exploration company, Okapi Resources' share price soared by more than 50 per cent in intra-day trading after unveiling a monster 174m gold intercept going 1.83 g/t gold from surface at its Enmore gold project in northern NSW. The company says that grade appears to be increasing at depth with the hole terminating with a 1m interval at 15.15 g/t gold from 172m.
ASX-listed junior explorer Okapi Resources has finalised the purchase of a portfolio of high-grade uranium projects in the United States in a deal it says is transformational. The Perth-based company assumes 100 per cent ownership of the brownfields uranium assets following the recent completion of an all-scrip acquisition of private Australian group Tallahassee Resources.
ASX-listed Okapi Resources has uncovered a 2-kilometre-long lithium target from a recently completed soil program at its newly acquired Lake Johnston project 450km east of Perth in Western Australia. Lithium in soil results have graded up to 86 parts per million and bear strong similarities with nearby results recently announced by joint venture partner Charger Metals at the adjoining Mount Day project.
Okapi Resources has secured a package of brownfields uranium assets in the US via an all-scrip “transformational” acquisition of Australia-based Tallahassee Resources. The company will pay the vendors of Tallahassee Resources 33.5 million new Okapi shares and 16.75 million options as consideration for the deal and inherit 100 per cent of the mineral rights over the Tallahassee uranium project tenure in Colorado's Tallahassee Creek uranium district.
Okapi Resources says wet weather won't stop the ASX-listed junior explorer completing the maiden drilling program at its Enmore gold project in New South Wales within the next two weeks. Nearly 770m in six of 8-10 planned holes have been drilled so far as the company follows up promising drill results from 20 years ago at two priority target areas.
ASX-listed junior explorer, Okapi Resources has kicked off a maiden round of drilling at its Enmore gold project about 30km south-east of Armidale in NSW's New England Fold Belt region. The company says the first-pass drill program, consisting of up to 10 reverse circulation holes for at least 1,000m, will probe priority targets at its two key brownfields prospects.
ASX-listed junior explorer, Okapi Resources expects to start a maiden drilling program at its Enmore gold project about 30km south-east of Armidale in NSW's New England Fold Belt this week after securing a drill rig. The Perth-based company plans to drill an initial eight-to-10 reverse circulation holes totalling about 1,000m at the project's key Sunnyside and Bora prospects.
ASX-listed Okapi Resources has snapped up a tenement containing the historical Maggie Hays Hill gold workings and abutting its Mount Day project in the Lake Johnston greenstone belt in WA. The new ground takes in an interpreted structural target and coincident gold in soil anomaly together with the old workings, which have yielded historical rock chip values up to 10.7 grams per tonne gold.
Okapi Resources continues to zero in on gold drill targets at its Mount Day prospect in Western Australia. Infill soil sampling has confirmed the presence of a 1,500m-long, cohesive gold trend that is consistently returning anomalous precious metal values and the company is now preparing to drill test the target in the latter half of this year.
ASX-listed Okapi Resources has kicked off exploration work at its Holly kaolin project in southern WA as part of technical due diligence relating to the recently announced planned acquisition of the project's owner. The Perth-based company collected about 15 kaolin samples from Holly this week for assaying at a laboratory in Perth.
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Okapi Resources has picked up more than 2,000 square kilometres of prospective kaolin ground and joined Australia's lucrative halloysite hunt. White Knight in South Australia and Holly in Western Australia are two key projects secured by the company with its acquisition of private resource group Bulk Mineral Holdings.
ASX-listed gold explorer, Okapi Resources has received regulatory approvals to kick off a maiden RC drilling program at its recently acquired historic Enmore gold project in NSW's New England Fold Belt next month. Enmore includes two walk-up drill targets known as Sunnyside and Bora that have already yielded high-grade gold values from historic drilling and rock chip sampling work carried out by previous owners.
Our board moves wrap includes Peretz Schapiro, Andrew Shearer, Peter Church, Bruce McFadzean, Bruce Griffin, John Richards, Peter Coleman, and Meg O'Neill.
ASX-listed explorer Okapi Resources is set to kick off its maiden drill program at its Enmore gold project in NSW as it continues to search for new drill targets at its West Australian Mt Day project. The company says it is also on the hunt for new projects as it gears up for a busy year ahead.
Okapi Resources is onto extensive gold anomalism at its Lake Johnson project east of Norseman in WA. Soil sampling across the company's Mt Day gold prospect has thrown up three priority gold targets, the largest of which covers close to 2,000 metres of strike. Management is now planning further sampling across the targets as it looks to drill test them in the coming months.
Okapi Resources has completed due diligence on the historic Enmore gold project 30 kilometres south-east of Armidale nearby the recently revived Hillgrove gold-antimony mine in north-eastern NSW and decided to press ahead with the staged acquisition of the asset. Enmore boasts a pair of advanced walk-up drill targets that have returned high-grade gold values from rock chip sampling work and drilling undertaken by previous owners.
ASX-listed gold explorer, Okapi Resources, has picked up an “underexplored” historic gold project 30 kilometres south-east of Armidale near the historic Hillgrove antimony-gold mine in north-eastern NSW in a cash-and-scrip deal. The company says the Enmore gold project already boasts a couple of walk-up drill targets brimming with high-grade gold values from drilling and rock chip sampling work done by previous owners.
Okapi Resources has narrowed its focus at Lake Johnson in WA, zeroing in on the Mount Day gold prospect. The company has amended its previously announced farm-in agreement with Lithium Australia, electing to concentrate on the Mount Day tenure, which hosts a 10km long surface geochemical anomaly and has produced rock chips of up to 10.68 grams per tonne gold.
Okapi Resources has nailed down a strategic position in the fertile Lake Johnston greenstone belt west of Norseman in southern WA. The company has entered into a farm-in agreement with dynamic market player, Lithium Australia to explore for gold and base metals across that company's strategic tenement holdings in the same greenstone belt as the old Maggie Hayes and Emily Ann nickel mines.
David Reeves has resigned as non-executive chair of European Metals in order to concentrate on his executive role and the development of the Warrawoona Gold Project for Calidus Res
Our daily board moves wrap includes David Varcoe, Mark Maine, Neville Bassett, David Porter, Marc Ducler, Kelvin Flynn, David Berg, Brendon Morton, Jonathan Downes, Gary Comb, Klaus Eckhof, Michael Montgomery, David Nour, Patrick Burke, Michael Davy, Jurie Wessels, and James Clement.
Okapi Resources has secured an option to earn a 50% equity right in the highly prospective and underexplored Tendao gold project, located adjacent to numerous multi-million ounce gold mining operations in central Africa. The project is situated in the highly endowed Kilo-Moto greenstone belt, less than 100km southeast of Barrick Gold's world-class Kibali mine that produced 800,000 ounces of gold during 2018.
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Okapi Resources Limited (ASX:“OKR”) (“Okapi” & “Company”) is pleased to announce that, further to its announcement of 24 January 2018, it has completed the issue of 2,142,857 fully paid ordinar
Gold explorer Okapi Resources has enjoyed fruitful gains on its first day as a listed company, which came nine months after its directors attempted to float the business as Huntsman Resources.
Six local resources companies have announced capital raisings of around $26 million for projects including in lithium and rare earths, with one of the businesses, Okapi Resources, planning to join the ASX bourse.
