News Articles for Hawthorn Resources

An Indian government-backed company which part-owns a $5-billion iron ore project controlled by Hancock Prospecting has been released from ASX purgatory.

With “hematite” iron ore discoveries slowing to a trickle, billionaires and others are turning to the once-maligned poor cousin of the iron ore industry “magnetite” that comes with almost biblical scale.

In this edition of Bulls N' Bears Big Hits, we examine some of the more notable drill intercepts revealed on the ASX, including African Gold's 33m at 2.4g/t gold at its Didievi project in Cote d'Ivoire. We also take a close look at other interesting drill hits from last week as reported by Nexus Minerals and Great Southern Mining, both from WA's Goldfields region.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining is spreading its exploration wings at its Pinjin project in WA to test new targets next to existing prospects in the southern part of the area's prospective Laverton Tectonic Zone. The company has lined up air-core drilling at two targets named Kirgella East and Kirgella West, which are respectively centred 1200m north-east and north-west from its combined Kirgella Gift and Providence prospects.

ASX-listed partners in an iron ore joint venture 51 per cent owned by Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting have retracted production forecasts.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining is all cashed up and raring to rip into a new air-core drilling program to follow up shallow gold targets identified in its first probing of the Wessex deposit within its Pinjin project in WA. The program will entail 4500m of AC drilling in KalGold's bid to further assess results from Wessex just three months ago that included 28m at 1.27g/t gold.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has tabled a maiden resource of 76,400 ounces at 1 gram per tonne gold from its Kirgella Gift and Providence deposits at its new flagship Pinjin project, 140km north-east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Management wrapped up its initial resource at Pinjin in little more than 12 months after securing the ground along the prospective Laverton Tectonic Zone in May last year.

With Mineral Resources turning a chapter and pulling the plug on its Yilgarn iron ore hub in Western Australia, the race for potential suitors vying for a look in at Esperance's newly-released rail and port capacity is hotting up. And the star-studded list of runners and riders positioning at the starting blocks makes for some very interesting reading.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has extended a prospective gold strike at its Pinjin project in Western Australia to 21km after being granted a new 3.5-square-kilometre parcel of contiguous ground at the site that sits 140km north-east of Kalgoorlie. The ground is centred about 3.75km south along strike from the company's Wessex target and about 8km north along strike from its Kirgella Gift and Providence gold prospects.

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting and its joint venture partners have put a $5 billion price tag on developing a major magnetite mine in the Yilgarn.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining is planning to kick off an air-core drilling program at its Pinjin project in WA's Eastern Goldfields next month to follow up an April campaign that hit zones running up to 3.07g/t gold. The program will centre on the company's Wessex target at the project that sits on the eastern flanks of the prospective Laverton Tectonic Zone, about 140km north-east of Kalgoorlie.

A project-wide lithium sweep of St George Mining's Mt Alexander operation near the historic Western Australian town of Menzies has isolated multiple new drill targets for a campaign slated to launch in the second half of this year. The company's soil sampling and lithium pegmatite fertility review also identified geochemical analogues and a relationship between local gold mineralisation and pegmatites.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has grabbed 38.5 square kilometres of highly-prospective new gold ground east of Kalgoorlie in WA – and it sits just 1800m away from shallow gold hits at its Kirgella Gift and Providence targets. The new permit has not been subjected to in-depth historic exploration, but is on a major tectonic feature that also hosts Ramelius Resources' 1.4-million-ounce Rebecca gold project.

Kalgoorlie Gold Mining has launched an earlier-than-expected RC drill-testing program at its Pinjin project in Western Australia's Laverton Tectonic Zone in a move designed to ramp up its search for shallow, high-grade gold. Pouncing on the chance to get a drill rig this week, the company's program at its Providence deposit has been crafted to follow up last month's gold drill hits.

Thick pegmatites, including one stretching more than 120m, have boosted St George Mining's lithium search at its Mt Alexander project in WA, as it attempts to define a bigger lithium system. Management says its project confidence is growing after assay results from its recent drilling program at its Jailbreak prospect also confirmed multiple lithium-bearing pegmatites, with a peak value of 1.28 per cent lithium.

Gina Rinehart's company has struck a joint venture with two explorers focused on a new lithium development against the backdrop of the billionaire's recent meeting with the Indian Prime Minister.

Speculation of a tie-up between two companies in an emerging lithium province scoped by Hancock Prospecting has surfaced after the pair entered a trading halt flagging a joint venture announcement.

St George Mining has moved quickly to top up its landholding at its Mt Alexander project near Leonora following the discovery of lithium mineralisation during its maiden drill program adding an exploration licence to its portfolio and lodging an application for a prospecting licence. Both tenements are neighbouring St George's Jailbreak prospect where the company currently has an aggressive drilling program underway.

St George Mining shares shot up nearly 40 per cent at one point during intraday trading on news of significant lithium potential at the company's Mt Alexander project 95km west of Leonora in WA. Initial field mapping and rock chip sampling at the project has confirmed numerous outcropping pegmatite dykes occurring in swarms that extend over 15km within its ground.

Hancock Prospecting's plan to earn-in to a slice of a Yilgarn magnetite project is proceeding, with the deal finalised just days after a new trade agreement with India.

Fortescue Metals Group has continued to surprise the market with its ambitious plans, striking an agreement with Sinosteel to evaluate a magnetite mine in the Mid West and a port at Oakajee.

Shares in Legacy Iron Ore were up 36 per cent today after the company struck an earn-in agreement with Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting.

Legacy Iron Ore founding director Sharon Heng has resigned after a board review of financial transactions during the past three years found Ms Heng owed the firm about $868,000.

Across the Pilbara, in the Mid West, Yilgarn and Great Southern, WA's iron ore sector is planning substantial growth.

Legacy Iron Ore will acquire a 60 per cent share in Hawthorn Resources for $5 million in a deal which will terminate the Mt Bevan iron ore project joint venture between the two companies.