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TNT Mines has nailed its first drill program at the Eureka gold project 50 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie after it hit 34 metres at 1.75 grams per tonne gold in one drill hole. The company has moved quickly to test the potential of the Eureka gold project after it reached an agreement to acquire 100 per cent of Warriedar Mining, the previous owner of the project back in October 2020.

Hammer Metals' consulting geologist Ziggy Lubieniecki has discovered four new copper-gold prospects in Queensland's Mount Isa region that have returned some amazing rock chip assays of up to 36% copper and 6.8 grams per tonne gold. 56 of the 100 rock chip assays from the Spiros and Paddy B prospects returned copper values of more than 1% copper.

Hammer Metals is selling its 75% interest in the Millennium cobalt project in Queensland's Mt Isa district to partner Global Energy Metals in exchange for a 19.9% stake in the Canadian company. This replaces the previous joint venture agreement and allows Hammer to focus on its exciting copper-gold exploration projects in Mt Isa.

Hammer Metals has made its best ever intercept of 41 metres @ 0.18% cobalt, 0.11g/t gold and 0.23% copper from 14m down-hole representing the true width of the mineralisation at the Millennium project near Cloncurry in QLD. Drill results will now be reviewed before carrying out further exploration on the higher grade southern portion of the resource ahead of preliminary metallurgical studies.

Spectrum Rare Earths has reported a slew of eye-popping, high grade gold results from historical drilling at its Washington gold project in northern California. Mineralisation occurs within a swag of criss-crossing quartz veins, usually over widths of about 2 metres at the mine. The company also identified 3 priority target areas for further drilling during its technical due diligence for the decommissioned gold operation.

Hammer Metals has announced significant cobalt-copper results from drilling at its Millennium JV project, near Cloncurry in western Queensland. The program tested up-dip continuity of the main lode, returning a best result of 7m @ 0.15% cobalt, 0.36% copper and 0.12g/t gold from 14m down-hole. The company also identified a new exploration target from rock chip sampling and mapping, 1km north of the Millennium resource.

On the back of impressive strikes at its Mt Lofty Joint Venture in the mineral-rich region between Cloncurry and Mt Isa in northwest Queensland, Hammer Metals has approved a second drilling program to start next month. The Stage 2 program is expected to provide information for preliminary metallurgical studies and a mineral resource estimation.

After a period of relatively low activity, ASX listed junior, Spectrum Rare Earths looks like it has stumbled across a potential company maker in Northern California. The Perth based company has locked down an option to purchase a mothballed, fully permitted gold mine that has historically produced around 250,000 ounces of gold at an amazing average grade of around an ounce to the tonne.

Hammer Metals is on the move at its multitude of projects near Mt Isa with a plethora of exploration plays underway. The company will recommence drilling at the Jubilee project to extend high grade copper-gold results with significant surface mineralisation also located 4.5km to the southeast at Jubilee South. At Millenium, further anomalous copper-cobalt-gold assays were returned from RC drilling.

Hammer Metals has announced a deal to divest 100% of its interest in two cobalt prospects near Mt Isa whilst retaining a 1.5% royalty. The deal with Global Energy Metals Corporation allows Hammer to direct its financial resources to its ongoing copper-gold exploration in the region, whilst Global Energy Metals will continue its efforts to build critical mass for a district-scale cobalt play in the region.

Hammer Metals can't put a foot wrong with the drill bit. Following news of 7% copper hits at Jubilee, the explorer this week announced high grade grade cobalt hits at Millennium in Mt Isa from the first drill program with a new Canadian partner. A three-hole program returned assays of up to 1.11% cobalt and has encouraged the partners to begin a 10-hole drill program next month.

After ending 2017 with some of its best-ever drill hits, Mt Isa-focused copper-gold explorer Hammer Metals is planning to start 2018 where it left off. A second RC drill program at the Jubilee prospect, 60 kms east of Mt Isa, will get underway later this month, aimed at extending high-grade hits of 7% copper in last month's maiden drill program.

Hammer Metals' recent farm in to the Mt Frosty copper-gold joint venture with Glencore in Queensland is looking like one of the deals of the year after turning out another batch of excellent assays from the maiden drill program. The Mt Isa-focused explorer this week reported a shallow, 5-metre interval assaying 7.34% copper and 3.75 g/t gold from the final hole in the program.

Hammer Metals' maiden drill program at the Mt Frosty joint venture with Glencore has produced a series of impressive hits of copper and gold, including 6 metres at 2.55% copper. The results are an early reward for Hammer, who bought its way into Mt Frosty earlier this year on the basis that it could potentially define a resource with minimal drilling. This is the second time Hammer have done this.

Hammer Metals' newly-formed Mt Frosty Copper-Gold JV with global mining giant Glencore is already looking good with the company announcing this week some highly encouraging drill hits from its maiden drill program in Mt Isa. The ASX-listed junior explorer reported visible copper sulphides from shallow RC drilling, backing up its view there is potential to define a resource with minimal drilling.

Hammer Metals have commenced drill activity on another front on their vast Mt Isa tenement holdings, this time at their highly prospective Mt Frosty Copper-Gold joint venture with Glencore. Hammer is hoping to repeat recent successes that built on drill results of previous explorers and aims to establish a resource at the Jubilee prospect with minimal drilling.

Hammer Metals have added to an already packed drill schedule with a 2,500-metre program at their Millennium Cobalt-Copper-Gold project. The program will be funded by Hammer's new Canadian joint venture partner and will be completed by the end of the December. Whilst the project appears to be well endowed with Gold and Copper, Hammer are quietly confident of increasing their Cobalt resource.

Hammer Metals are set to launch their biggest drill program this year, with more than 3000 metres of RC drilling planned to test a number of the company's best prospects in the Mt Isa district. Drill activity will be focused on the emerging Kalman West and Hammertime prospects, which are adjacent to Hammer's flagship Kalman deposit.

Hammer Metals have opened up yet another new exploration front at their Mt Isa project, with a high grade gold hit at the Kalman West prospect. The ASX listed explorer reported a one metre intercept at 36.9 g/t gold and scored hits from both of the first two holes. Highly encouraging results have also come from drilling at the Revenue prospect, with gold again the main prize.

Hammer Metals is once again punching above its weight by securing a joint venture with Glencore to explore for high-grade copper-gold adjacent to the old Mary Kathleen uranium mine in Queensland. It is Hammer's second joint venture with a global mining heavyweight, following a deal with Newmont in late 2015 to explore for base metals elsewhere in the Mt Isa district.

Hammer Metals' impressive exploration skills will get a workout over the next few weeks with the start of RC drill programs at both the Kalman West and Revenue prospects in the Mt Isa mining district. Hammer will be hoping to add to a string of successes, which have attracted gold heavyweight Newmont and a Canadian cobalt specialist as joint venture partners.

Hammer Metals has received positive early results from a three-hole drilling program at Dronfield near Mt Isa, hitting plenty of markers associated with IOCG mineralisation and up to 5% total sulphides. Hammer are one third of the way through a three hole deep drilling program with results expected soon.

Hammer Metals' proposed new Canadian partner, Global Energy Metals Corporation has heaped praise on the Millennium copper-cobalt project in Queensland, stating that it could become “a very significant regional opportunity.” The glowing assessment has encouraged Global Energy to finalise the proposed joint venture at Millennium with Hammer Metals.

The rich geology of Hammer Metal's ground east of Mt Isa has produced yet another happy surprise for the Perth-based explorer —graphite. A recent electromagnetic survey by helicopter highlighted a conductive, graphite-rich bed, with initial samples assaying up to 10% total graphitic carbon.

It's not very often you get to steal a project from the Chinese but only a year after paying Chinese and other interests just $83,000 for the Millenium copper-cobalt project in Queensland, Hammer Metals have farmed it out in a deal worth up to $2.7m. Their JV partner is a serious player in the battery metals business and brings more than just exploration money to the table.

Hammer Metals have bagged more exciting copper-gold real estate in the Mt Isa region with the completion of stage one of an acquisition from Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources. The deal includes an already defined resource with 143,000 tonnes of copper and a host of other opportunities for Hammer to add value by applying its own brand of exploration.

Hammer Metals' success at the Millennium project that was aquired for a song has opened the door to another acquisition that looks to be equally well priced in Mt Isa. The company announced this week an agreement with Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources to acquire highly prospective tenements in the Mt Isa district for the issue of 1.5m Hammer shares, which closed at 3.9c on Wednesday.

In a remarkable display of value adding, Hammer Metals this week released a maiden resource estimate for their copper-cobalt-gold Millennium deposit in Qld, just six months after buying it for $83,000. The ASX junior said Millennium was similar in size and style to other deposits in the area that had been successfully mined, which implied Millennium might already be economic.

Hammer Metals, recently voted Queensland Explorer of the Year for its breakthrough discovery of the Overlander deposit, has set its sights on a number of big new exploration goals around its Mt Isa tenements. A deep diamond drill hole is about to target extensions of a number of extraordinary copper-gold drill intersections that remain open at depth at the Kalman South prospect.

A recent drilling campaign at Perth based hammer Metals' “Millennium” project in Mt Isa has unearthed a cocktail of mineralization on a tenement package that cost the mining junior just $83k in cash and shares – and they bought it from Chinese interests. Minerals present include Copper, Gold, Cobalt, Silver and lead with most results easily convertable to plus 1% Copper equivalents.

Hammer Metals continues to shake up the Mt Isa exploration scene with a boost to its Kalman resource the latest in a run of exceptional news. The copper equivalent grade at Kalman has jumped from 1.3% to 1.8% following recent successful drilling and Hammer believes the deposit, which is open along strike and down plunge, still has more to offer.

Hammer Metals will shortly produce a maiden copper-cobalt-gold resource estimate at the Millennium prospect in Mt Isa just months after acquiring the project for a song. Hammer has also identified a promising new target on the Millennium leases that boasts small scale historic production with copper grades of 26%. The project is also looking good for Cobalt.

The highly anticipated drill testing of Hammer Metals' promising Overlander prospect near Mt Isa in Queensland will kick off next month with drill hole positions now determined. Hammer metals, with giant JV partner Newmont, will target a repetition of the famed 220m tonne Ernest Henry iron oxide copper-gold deposit east of Mt Isa.

Well known mining focused private equity firm Resource Capital Funds has taken a plunge at ASX junior Hammer Metals with its latest $2b mining fund. RCF has taken a $1.75m placement in Hammer Metals at 7c a share representing the lion's share of the company's latest $2.25m capital raise. The funds will be spent on Hammer's100% owned Mt Isa copper gold project.

Junior explorer Hammer Metals has accessed a little known Federal Government program to give their shareholders a tax windfall worth nearly half a cent per share. Hammer successfully applied for inclusion in the federal Government's “Exploration Development Incentive Scheme” which effectively allows exploration companies to pass on some tax losses to their shareholders.

ASX listed explorer Hammer Metals is in the final planning stages of executing multiple drilling programs across a host of exciting targets within its Mt Isa Copper/Gold/Cobalt project. Importantly it will follow up an impressive historic Copper/Gold/Cobalt hit on its Millennium leases that is the equivalent of a 19m intersection grading 4% Copper.

Hammer Metals have paid just $83 000 in cash and shares to secure an exciting copper/gold/cobalt exploration project near their Mt Isa operations that boasts historic drill results of up to 19m at 1.27% Copper, 0.38% Cobalt and 0.7g/t gold including 6m @3.45% Copper, 0.32% Cobalt and 2.0g/t Gold. It is just 16km west of CuDeco's goliath Rocklands mine.

Hammer Resources and heavyweight partner Newmont are currently processing and modelling geophysical data gleaned from the first round of field programs at Hammer's Mt Isa project. Hammer are also focusing on their own 100% owned tenements including the Scalper prospect that retunred a result of 23 metres at 1.1% Copper and 0.27g/t gold.

Hammer Metals with a market cap of just $5m have done a deal with one of the world's largest miners, Newmont Mining in a $15m farm in deal for their Mt Isa prospects in Queensland. The joint venture is targeting an Ernest Henry style copper-gold deposit which boasts 220 million tonnes at 1.1% Cu and 0.5g/t Au.

Hammer Metals have defined and mapped multiple exciting drill targets at a number of their key prospects within the Mt Isa project area in Queensland.