News Articles for St George Mining

Explorer St George Mining has moved quickly on its discovery of high-grade lithium-bearing rock chip samples at the company's Mt Alexander project near Leonora, launching its first lithium-focused drill campaign at the project. The 20-hole 2,000m program's initial focus is Mt Alexander's Jailbreak prospect where high-grade lithium in outcropping pegmatites has been confirmed by the rock chip assays.

St George Mining's share price leapt over 50 per cent in intraday trading today following news the typically nickel explorer had snared a raft of high-grade lithium bearing rock chips at its Mt Alexander project near Leonora in WA. Analysis of its first batch of 10 samples returned grades as high as 2.72 per cent lithium oxide and the boundary of the site's outcropping pegmatites has now grown by up to 1.7km.

St George Mining has unearthed a raft of nickel sulphide targets at its Mt Alexander project near Leonora including a large electromagnetic conductor that has been identified as a priority drilling prospect. The company is currently conducting fixed loop electromagnetic surveys combined with seismic data to pinpoint a series of anomalies identified earlier last month.

After further field work, mineral explorer St George Mining believes it has significantly expanded the lithium potential of its Mt Alexander nickel — and now lithium — project 95km west of Leonora in WA. Since first announcing it was on the lithium trail in early September, the explorer has identified an increasing number of pegmatite outcrops in its field mapping efforts across a 15km zone of pegmatite dykes at its project.

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.

A successful geophysical survey program has highlighted a number of highly prospective nickel sulphide targets for St George Mining at the company's Mt Alexander project near Leonora in Western Australia. Using a combination of seismic and electromagnetic surveys St George has highlighted three anomalies consistent with massive sulphides with one specific target, named the Manta prospect, to be prioritised for drilling.

Multi-element explorer St George Mining has wrapped up its maiden drill campaign after completing its three final drill holes at the company's Paterson copper-gold project in WA's Pilbara region. St George will now shift focus to its Mt Alexander nickel and copper project west of Leonora as it looks to drill a set of nickel, copper and PGE targets and collect rock chip samples from a pegmatite outcrop.

St George Mining's maiden drilling program at its Paterson copper-gold project in WA's east Pilbara region is in full swing with three more drill holes returning encouraging signs. The explorer says the lithologies intersected in all three drill holes appear consistent with those known to host major copper-gold deposits in the Paterson province.

St George Mining has tabled a flurry of exploration results across its WA portfolio, including the sighting of visual copper sulphides at its Paterson copper-gold project. The company has also identified a suite of priority drill targets at its Ajana and Mt Alexander nickel-copper-PGE operations through geophysical surveys.

St George Mining has launched an 18-hole diamond core drill search for copper and gold at its Paterson project in Western Australia's East Pilbara region, aiming to prove up encouraging preliminary results from its maiden air core drill program last August. The company has already gone over the ground with airborne, electromagnetic and ground gravity surveys.

St George has announced a major expansion of exploration for its four WA based projects. Work at Mt Alexander will test new nickel-copper-PGE targets and extensions to existing high-grade shallow deposits. The hunt for Winu style deposits at its Paterson project is planned to start in May. Whilst at the company's Ajana and Broadview projects exploration will target Nova/Bollinger and Julimar style mafic intrusion hosted nickel-copper-PGE targets.

St George Mining has intersected nickel-copper sulphides in the second drillhole targeting an extension to its high-grade Stricklands deposit in WA. Nickel-copper sulphides were located from 102.7m to 106.3m downhole including 0.25m of massive sulphides abutting the granite contact from 106.05-106.3m. Drilling has confirmed a western extension of approximately 35m to the existing high-grade Stricklands deposit with mineralisation open down dip.

St George Mining has nailed 5.2m of nickel copper sulphides in its very first drill test of downhole electromagnetic conductor targets at its Mt Alexander project. The company said the new intersection extends the high-grade Stricklands deposit 35m further northwest and confirms the extension of mineralisation down dip. Similar looking conductors are also scheduled to feel the drill bit along the 5km strike of the company's Cathedrals Belt.

St George Mining has identified five new nickel copper targets at its Mt Alexander project. The company said the conceptual targets are large and compelling, with little or no previous drilling. Seismic surveys are to be expanded to cover the new zones. Infill and extensional diamond drilling is also aiming at known, high-grade mineralisation in a bid to expand the Investigators and Stricklands deposits.

St George Mining is understood to be conducting a $6.5 million equity raise to fund further nickel-copper exploration efforts at the Mt Alexander project in WA's Yilgarn Craton.

St George Mining has confirmed the potential to produce two commercially viable concentrates with metallurgical test work displaying nickel grades of 11.5 per cent with 3.32 grams per tonne palladium, 0.65 g/t platinum and 0.61 per cent cobalt and copper at 27.8 per cent with 12.4 g/t palladium, 1.9 g/t platinum and 2.6 g/t gold. Importantly no deleterious elements that could affect the saleability of the concentrates were identified.

Western Areas co-founder and former managing director Julian Hanna said he was excited to return to a promising nickel and base metals exploration story.

Junior nickel explorer St George Mining has identified a strong off-hole conductor through down hole electromagnetic surveying nearby another at its Mt Alexander nickel-copper project in WA it believes may be a potential 70m long conductive horizon. The company says the off-hole conductivity readings are interpreted to be consistent with massive nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation and could represent an exploration breakthrough at the project.

ASX-listed junior explorer Javelin Minerals has secured a further 72 sq kms of territory at its Mt Ida-Ida Valley project in a region currently under the microscope of other juniors for its multi-element mineralisation. The Mt Ida-Ida Valley project covers approximately 972 square kilometres in total of highly prospective ground about 100 kilometres west of Leonora in WA.

WA-based explorer St George Mining has announced new high-grade targets at its flagship Mt Alexander project after a seismic survey turned up large intrusion structures prospective for nickel sulphide. The company says the area has the potential to host significant volumes of mineralisation and has taken no time to fire up the rig with drilling already underway on the first of five fresh targets.

St George Mining has kicked off a diamond drill program at its Mt Alexander nickel-copper-platinum group element project in WA with the first of several high-priority seismic targets in its crosshairs. Confidence in the Mt Alexander area has been strengthened by a recent St George and CSIRO research project that indicates the rocks hosting nickel mineralisation at the nearby Cathedrals belt are associated with Mt Alexander.

St George Mining has brought forward a drilling campaign designed to pierce two recently identified high priority nickel-copper sulphide targets at its Mt Alexander project in the north-eastern Goldfields of WA. According to the company, both deeper seismic targets have a geophysical signature consistent with its Investigators prospect where shallower drilling recently returned a sizzling 8.49m hit grading 5.8 per cent nickel and 2.6 per cent copper.

Interpretation of a seismic survey by nickel explorer, St George Mining has uncovered another high priority nickel, copper and platinum target near the mineral rich Cathedrals Belt at its Mt Alexander project in the north-eastern Goldfields of WA. The new target, named ‘S2', stretches for more than 400 metres down dip and adds to another key target recently identified beneath the Cathedrals Belt, named ‘S1'.

WA-focused nickel explorer, St George Mining has unveiled a large, compelling nickel-copper sulphide target beneath its Investigators prospect located at its Mt Alexander project in the north-eastern Goldfields. Previous drilling at the prospect delivered multiple shallower intercepts including a cracking 8.49m going 5.8 per cent nickel and 2.6 per cent copper from 183.9m. The company now plans to drill-test the deeper priority target early next year.

St George Mining has launched into another round of diamond drilling on the hunt to find deeper targets identified by compelling electromagnetic survey results at their 100 per cent owned Mount Alexander nickel-copper project in the north-eastern goldfields. The company is also targeting down plunge continuity following an enticing 11.07 metre drill hit grading 1.58 per cent nickel and 0.71 per cent copper from 333.5 metres.

Nickel exploration company, St George Mining says maiden regional drilling at two 100 per cent owned prospects near its exciting Mt Alexander nickel sulphide discovery in Western Australia's north-eastern Goldfields has intercepted broad intervals of host rocks prospective for nickel sulphide mineralisation. The company believes its Mt Alexander tenure has potential to develop into a major multi-deposit nickel camp.

St George Mining has lit up a strong new conductor amongst a conga line of conductors identified at its flagship Mt Alexander project in Western Australia. The stand-out conductor is located the company's West End prospect within the Mt Alexander project along the Cathedrals mineral belt The company is confident that drilling of the target will likely deliver another high-grade discovery.

St George Mining has kicked off a swag of drilling at its flagship Mt Alexander project in Western Australia. Early-stage targets will be tested with a seven-hole program at the newly minted Carnac prospect and 20 high-priority infill holes will also be ploughed into St George's Cathedrals JV with an eye to a potential resource estimate being produced.

St George Mining has opened up exploration on a second front and is now hunting giant copper deposits in one of WA's most enigmatic mineral terranes – the Paterson province, home to a number of elephant sized mineral deposits. The company's maiden drill program over its extensive tenure in the region has jagged copper sulphides in several drill holes triggering a move to deeper diamond drilling.

St George Mining appears to be onto a new high-grade nickel trend at its Mt Alexander project in Western Australia. Soil sampling over the Carnac trend, about 14 kilometres north of St George's nickel sulphide discoveries on the Cathedrals Belt, is producing anomalous nickel and copper along more than 1,600 metres of strike with drilling now scheduled to kick off in the weeks ahead.

St George Mining is off to a flying start in its copper-gold search in the “world-class” Paterson region of Western Australia with multiple holes from its maiden drilling campaign at its Paterson prospect hitting prospective basement rocks. Initial XRF analysis has returned elevated levels of pathfinder elements suggesting potential for base metal and gold mineralisation across 35km of target stratigraphy at the company's tenure.

ASX-listed junior explorer St George Mining is set to kick off a seismic survey next week across an under-explored western portion of the “Cathedrals Belt” at its joint ventured Mt Alexander nickel-copper sulphide project in WA's north-Eastern Goldfields region. The Perth-based company will be looking to map the host intrusive structures in the western area, where new electromagnetic conductors have been recently encountered.

ASX-listed St George Mining has delivered a “breakthrough” high-grade nickel sulphide drill hit below previously intercepted mineralisation at the 75 per cent-owned Mt Alexander project in Western Australia's north-Eastern Goldfields. The 11.07m hit grading 1.58 per cent nickel and 0.71 per cent copper included a 1.28m interval going at 6.54 per cent nickel, 2.96 per cent copper and 3.88g/t PGEs from 342.12m depth.

WA-focused explorer St George Mining has launched into a 10,000m drilling blitz targeting new copper and gold discoveries along 35km of prospective stratigraphy at the Paterson project in the state's north. The maiden reverse circulation program is aimed at emulating recent discoveries in the region that include Rio Tinto's Winu project hosting some 503Mt in resources going 0.45 per cent copper-equivalent.

The intrigue is growing for St George Mining and its 75 per cent-owned Mt Alexander project in WA with step-out diamond drilling intersecting wide nickel-copper sulphides. The first step-out hole was testing for extension of the 11m of nickel-copper sulphides below 400m depth reported recently by St George, with mineralisation said to be open in all directions.

Caravel Minerals will use $7.5 million raised from a share placement to fast-track the development of its namesake copper project in the Wheatbelt while St George Mining is raising $7 million.

WA focused nickel explorer St George Mining continues to intercept nickel sulphides beneath the high-grade deposits at the Mt Alexander project in the Goldfields. Step-out drilling from a recent discovery hole has commenced with the company now well-funded for future works via an oversubscribed $7 million capital raise. A maiden drilling campaign at the Paterson project is also due to begin in May.

Things are heating up for up-and-coming nickel explorer, St George Mining at its Mt Alexander project in the Goldfields of WA. New gravity surveys and downhole electromagnetic surveys have identified multiple new nickel-copper sulphide targets as resource and exploration drilling continues. Additional drilling to test the newly identified high-priority targets is now on the cards

XRF scans of diamond core recovered from deep beneath the earth at St George Mining's Mt Alexander nickel-copper sulphide project in WA's Goldfields have turned up some scintillating nickel-copper sulphides with one drill hole delivering 10.96m of continuous nickel-copper sulphides from 333.6m downhole with XRF readings as high as 7.34 per cent nickel and 2.94 per cent copper between 342.1m and 343.4m.

High-quality copper prospects are becoming harder to find, but juniors are poised for the challenge.