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Spectrum Metals is not sitting idly by while shareholders consider a takeover bid by ASX-listed Ramelius Resources Ltd. In fact, Spectrum is gearing up for another bunch of drill holes around the various deposits that make up its Penny West gold project. It is targeting resource additions to add to an already healthy maiden estimate of 799kt at 13.8g/t for 355,500 ounces of contained gold.

Spectrum Metals' share price has jumped 40% from Friday's close on news of a take-over bid from gold titan, Ramelius Resources which has the blessing of the Spectrum board. The cash and scrip offer represent a 70% premium to Spectrum's 30-day volume weighted average share price. Ramelius says there are strong synergies between the two companies and the board of Spectrum has endorsed those views.

Spectrum Metals has encountered its highest gold grades yet outside of the historical Penny North deposit located 25km south of the Youanmi mining centre in Western Australia. Recent exploration drilling has snagged a 4 metre wide zone grading at 11.1 grams per tonne gold from 195m downhole, including a metre grading 41g/t gold at the Magenta prospect, 1.5km north of Penny North.

With a recent new drill hole at its Penny North prospect going 2.87m at 14.7g/t from 363m downhole, Spectrum Metals appears to be showing that its shiny new ore body, recently discovered just to the north of the historic Penny West open pit in W.A, is not going to give up anytime soon. Penny North is located 25km south of Youanmi.

Spectrum Metals has announced a stunning maiden resource of 569,000 tonnes grading a whopping 16.8g/t gold for 306,800 ounces at its Penny North discovery near the Youanmi mineral province in WA. This brings the entire Penny West project resource to 799,000 tonnes grading 13.8g/t gold for 355,500 ounces. Importantly, the ore body is still well and truly open and will most likely continue to impress.

Spectrum Metals has intersected further high-grade visible gold mineralisation from deep drilling at its Penny North discovery near Youanmi in WA. The company will now move the rig to complete exploratory drilling at the Magenta prospect, about 1.5km to the north. Spectrum is also compiling a maiden resource for Penny North, undertaking site-based environmental studies and preparing geophysical surveys to help rank existing gold targets.

Spectrum Metals continues its run of solid drilling success at its Penny North gold prospect located 25km south of the Youanmi mining centre in Western Australia. New drilling showed that the mineralised zones at Penny North are harbouring ounce plus dirt with drill hits including 2m at 32.5 g/t gold from 322m within a wider 6 meter intercept grading 11.1 g/t.

Spectrum Metals' recently completed detailed sub-audio magnetic survey has identified several new targets in the gap zone between the Penny North deposit and the Columbia-Magenta targets of its Penny West gold project near Youanmi, WA. The company is currently increasing its drilling capacity and will test targets generated from the survey over the coming months.

Spectrum Metals' ongoing drilling campaign at the Penny North gold discovery near Youanmi in WA continues to impress. The company has now extended the length of its high-grade ore shoot to 260 metres with exceptional new intersections like 3m @ 83.7g/t gold. Spectrum has also revealed more gold mineralisation from Penny South, beneath the historical Penny West pit, with 2m @ 17.1g/t gold from 182m down-hole.

Spectrum Metals' drilling campaign at the Penny West project near Youanmi, WA, has returned its deepest high-grade gold intersection to date, with a spectacular 9m @ 15.9g/t gold from 294m down-hole, incorporating a 6-metre section going 22.5g/t gold from 295m. The company said additional drill rigs would commence work in August and that the latest results indicate gold mineralisation remains open at depth down-plunge.

Spectrum Metals' Phase II drilling campaign at the Penny West project near Youanmi, WA, has returned additional, deep high-grade gold intersections at the Penny North discovery, extending the mineralisation down-plunge. New drill intercepts included 5m @ 24.4g/t gold from 241m down-hole, 6m @ 14.8g/t gold from 268m down-hole and another hole that recorded 11m @ 3.9g/t from 221m down-hole and 3m @ 15.4g/t gold from 239m down-hole.

Spectrum Metals' Phase II drilling campaign at the Penny West project near Youanmi, WA, has returned further high-grade gold intersections, with mineralisation now defined over 650 metres of strike to a vertical depth of 230m. Preliminary metallurgical test work from the Penny North ores have been encouraging, with gold recoveries up to 99.2% and free-milling gold potentially amenable to a conventional processing circuit.

Spectrum Metals' Phase II drilling campaign at the Penny West project near Youanmi, WA, has returned top results of 1m @ 180.3 g/t gold from 206m down-hole and 11m @ 11.7g/t gold from 229m from the first holes drilled at the Penny North prospect. The results have already doubled the down-dip extent of the Penny North lode on this section while results are pending for two up-dip holes on the same drill section.

Spectrum Metals will commence a detailed, ground-based geophysical SAM survey program over the Penny West shear corridor next month, which hosts the high-grade gold mineralisation at its namesake project located near Youanmi, WA. The surveying covers a gap between the recently identified Penny North mineralisation and the Columbia-Magenta targets to the north and will assist in the delineation of geological structures.

Spectrum Metals has drilled high-grade gold intersections at its Penny North and Magenta prospects near Youanmi in WA and has raised $5m to support ongoing exploration and resource development at the broader Penny West project. The company will shortly commence its Phase II drilling program, which will target regions adjacent to the existing Penny West resource and extensions to the Penny North and Magenta prospects.

Spectrum Metals has drilled additional wide, high-grade gold intersections at its Penny North gold prospect near Youanmi in WA. New intercepts included 6m @ 47.4g/t gold from 150m down-hole, located 40m down-plunge of March's discovery hole and 11m @ 25.8g/t gold from 120m down-hole directly up-dip from the discovery hole. The company is raising $5m to support ongoing exploration and development at the emerging project.

Spectrum Metals has returned a high-grade gold intersection 125m below a historical open pit at its Penny West gold prospect near Youanmi in WA. The intercept of 5 metres grading 28.9g/t gold from 203m down-hole was contained within a wider zone of 31m @ 5.5g/t gold from the same depth. The company said the result might represent a structurally thickened zone and that further drilling is planned.

Spectrum Metals has drilled a bonanza grade intercept at its new Penny North gold prospect near Youanmi in WA, returning a 4 metre wide intersection of mineralisation grading 105.2g/t gold from 151m down-hole. The company has expanded its drilling campaign to follow up the new find, which is along strike from a historical open pit that produced 85,000 ounces at 21.8g/t gold in the 1990s.

Spectrum Metals has drilled high grade extensions at its Penny West gold project near Youanmi in WA, intersecting an 8 metre wide intercept of mineralisation grading 24.2g/t gold from 149m down-hole. The zone at Penny North is directly on strike from a historical open pit, that generated 85,000 ounces at 21.8g/t gold in the 1990s. The company has expanded its drilling campaign to follow up the discovery.

Spectrum Metals has added a bit of polish to its Penny West project near Youanmi in WA discovering 14 metres of mineralisation grading 14.4g/t gold and 4.11g/t silver from 124m down-hole. The zone is north of the historic Penny West open cut, that produced 85,000 ounces grading 21.8g/t gold in the early 1990s. The company said it would expand its drilling to follow up the new find.

Spectrum Metals has started spinning the drill bit at its new Penny West project in the Murchison mining district, one of the highest grade open pit gold mines ever worked in Western Australia. The 4500 metre maiden drill campaign is primarily aimed at defining and extending the mineralised envelope below the Penny West open pit. Final assay results are expected during April.

Spectrum Metals has generated multiple, high priority drill targets from a regional exploration auger geochemical sampling program at its newly acquired Penny West gold project, located in the Murchison mining district of WA. The company said it will drill the Columbia-Magenta prospect in the coming weeks and also target high grade gold mineralisation beneath the historic Penny West open pit shell.

Spectrum Metals has completed the acquisition of the high grade Penny West gold project and an exploration licence located immediately east of the project in WA's Goldfields region. The company is currently awaiting assay results from a 1000 hole auger geochemistry program and is planning to start a RC/Diamond drilling program in the first quarter of next year.

Spectrum Metals has acquired the historic Penny West gold mine, located 30km south of the mothballed Youanmi operation in WA. The open pit mine was last worked in 1992 and produced over 85,000 ounces at a staggering grade of 21.8g/t gold. The deposit has a remaining resource of 230,000 tonnes grading 4.8g/t gold for 36,000 ounces, with significant exploration and development potential on two granted mining leases.

Spectrum Metals has paid $200,000 to buy the historical First Hit gold mine, located 50km west of Menzies in the Goldfields region of WA. The mine was last worked in 2002 and the company has defined numerous walk-up drill targets for delineating more high grade mineralisation. Spectrum will raise $600,000 to underwrite exploration of its WA gold assets, by issuing shares to sophisticated investors at 0.4c per share.