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Graham Gadsby, former Spartan Resources chief geologist behind its Never Never and Pepper discoveries, has been named King River's new MD to lead high-grade gold exploration at Tennant Creek and Mt Remarkable. The former Spartan Resources geologist brings a wealth of experience to the new role.

King River Resources has acquired a new exploration licence, which encloses its Kurundi gold prospect in the Northern Territory and includes possible north-westward extensions from the Kurundi targ

King River Resources has received the final $2.4m cash payment owed by Darwin-based Tivan Limited for its acquisition of King River's Speewah critical minerals project in WA's Kimberley region, as part of a $20m consideration.

King River Resources has intersected significant geochemical anomalies from recent drilling at its Langrenus and Providence prospects that sit within the company's Tennant Creek East project in Australia's Top End. The drill campaign is part of a $2 million spend to follow up geophysical targets generated from last year's program and encountered anomalous gold, copper, silver, antimony, bismuth and cobalt.

King River Resources has punched 68 reverse-circulation (RC) holes for 7998m into its Tennant Creek East and Kurundi projects that sit near the town of Tennant Creek in Australia's Top End. The $2 million drilling campaign has been designed to also test a range of new targets generated from an intensive geophysics program that was completed last year.

King River Resources has pocketed a timely R&D tax rebate of more than $361,000 as it ramps up spending on a 10,800m reverse-circulation drill program at its prospective Tennant Creek East copper-gold project in the Northern Territory. The program, which kicks off this week, was delayed for several months due to flooding rains, but will now test 13 prospects at the company's Top End projects.

The heavens have finally closed over King River Resources' ground in the Northern Territory and it has declared itself open for drilling business for copper and gold at the many prospects within its Tennant Creek East project. The reverse-circulation drill program, delayed for several months due to flooding rains, is planned for 10,800m at 13 prospects within three of the company's Top End projects.

King River Resources is set to kick off a new drill campaign at its Tennant Creek East project in the Northern Territory as part of a $2 million commitment to hunt for high-grade copper-gold this year. Drilling will target the promising Commitment, Langrenus and Providence prospects, all in proximity to several head-turning copper-gold drill intersections recorded in recent years in the highly-regarded Tennant Creek region.

King River Resources has made a key appointment to lead its newly formed High "Purity Metals Division" as the company looks to lay the groundwork for building a processing plant for high purity alumina in Kwinana. According to the company, newly appointed CEO, Doug Flanagan has a pedigree in delivering base and precious metal projects, rare earths and oil and gas projects in Australia, Zambia, Malaysia and Central and North America.

King River Resources says it has uncovered new, potentially gold-bearing quartz veins following an initial rock chip sampling program across its Mt Remarkable regional tenement holdings in WA. The company says the epithermal quartz veining with indications of gold mineralisation – such as adularia, malachite and oxidised sulphides – was identified in five different areas on the back of 88 rock chip grab samples collected during the first-phase helicopter reconnaissance work.

King River has its sights on a free cash deluge from its proposed $204 million investment in a cutting-edge high-purity alumina manufacturing plant at Kwinana, south of Perth, after tabling a stunning set of numbers in its recently completed project pre-feasibility study. The plant is expected to deliver more than $190 million per annum in free cash flow over an initial 25-year operation.

ASX-listed King River Resources has confirmed previously reported output of high-purity alumina at purity levels greater than 99.99 per cent from its Speewah Dome project in WA's Kimberley region via recently conducted assay tests. The Perth-based company says the high-purity alumina batches were produced by calcining high-purity precursor materials purified by its refining process from an industrial chemical feed stock material.

ASX-listed explorer King River Resources says drilling has unearthed its richest, high-grade gold vein outside of the Trudi Main prospect at its Mount Remarkable gold project in WA's north-east Kimberley region. The first high grade, reverse circulation gold hit at its Jennifer North vein returned 2m at 8.44 g/t gold which included 1m going 14.8 g/t, within an overall 5m zone grading 3.45 g/t gold.

ASX-listed explorer King River Resources says drilling has encountered a new high-grade gold zone west of the Trudi Main epithermal quartz vein deposit at its Mount Remarkable gold project in WA's north-east Kimberley region. The stand-out intersection from the company's latest batch of drilling results from the project was 6m grading 5.25 g/t gold including 1m at 30.1 g/t.

King River Resources has elected to shift its strategic focus to its own recently identified leaching and refining process, utilising readily available aluminium chemical feedstocks, in what it says is a lower risk and faster path toward High Purity Alumina production. King River's recent lab testing has now confirmed the production of a high-purity precursor compound suitable for calcining into HPA.

King River Resources has successfully trialled its streamlined high-purity alumina processing route, utilising a readily available commercial aluminium feedstock to create an HPA precursor product. Metallurgical test work is currently underway on both this new precursor and the original precursor, manufactured from the company's Speewah ores, to create 4N HPA products at 99.99 per cent pure alumina.

King River Resources is continuing to refine the feasibility study over its immense Speewah Dome high purity alumina project in the Kimberley region of WA, with recent developments including the streamlining of the HPA circuit to develop a product for use in technological applications.

King River Resources is targeting high-grade gold in the Northern Territory as drilling kicks off at the Lone Star prospect at Tennant Creek. The company is targeting a series of coincident magnetic-gravity anomalies that it is interpreting as potentially the geophysical signature for the high-grade copper-gold rich ironstone ore bodies found in the Tennant Creek mineral field.

ASX-listed King River Resources has been buoyed by tax credits of up to $975,000 under the Federal Government's exploration incentive scheme, with the explorer confirming the tax office has approved its application to participate in the Junior Minerals Exploration Incentive program. The tax credits can be distributed to its Australian resident shareholders who are issued new shares from any of its capital raisings in 2020-21.

ASX-listed explorer King River Resources is set to crank up the drill bit next month at its high-grade Mount Remarkable gold project in WA's East Kimberley region after delays caused by coronavirus pandemic restrictions. Bonanza near-surface gold hits from previous drilling included a best result of 4m grading 113.29 grams per tonne gold including 1m going more than 10 ounces per tonne.

King River Resources is on the home straight now as it looks to complete a pre-feasibility study on its Speewah high purity alumina project in the East Kimberly region of Western Australia. The company said it only has a handful of hydrometallurgical tests to polish off now before the final report can hit the streets. Mining, marketing and environmental studies have already been completed.

King River Resources has outlined an update on its PFS work for the Speewah specialty metals project in the Kimberley region of WA, where it recently flagged a potential capital cost reduction by USD$152m to USD$524m. According to recommendations by consulting firm Como Engineers, the reduction could be achieved by reducing mining rates that are more aligned with a standard-size acid plant leaching circuit.

King River Resources has started reconnaissance geological exploration field programs and rock chip sampling over several newly granted exploration licences that lie along strike from its Mt Remarkable gold project near Kununurra, WA. The field work has already unearthed new occurrences of quartz-feldspar veining, similar to the very high-grade Trudi Vein system located at Mt Remarkable.

King River Resources will recommence field exploration programs at its Mt Remarkable gold project near Kununurra, WA, later this month, to build on the success of last year's discovery of high-grade mineralisation centred on the Trudi Main Zone. The company has also been granted a new exploration licence that surrounds the main prospect area and contains structural geological targets similar to those defined at Trudi.

King River Resources has extracted up to 97% vanadium in heated sulphuric acid vat leaching metallurgical test work on mineral concentrates from its massive Speewah specialty metals project, located near Kununurra in the Kimberley region of WA. The company previously stated that the results support an alternative ore processing route for its flagship project that could drastically lower capital and operating costs.

King River Resources has recovered up to 92% vanadium in heated sulphuric acid vat leaching metallurgical test work on coarse lump ores from its massive Speewah project, located near Kununurra in the Kimberley region of WA. The company says the encouraging results support the development of an alternative ore processing route for its flagship vanadium project that could drastically lower capital and operating costs.

King River Resources has discovered another high grade gold zone at its Mt Remarkable project, near Kununurra in WA. The 4m intersection at 19.88g/t gold from 21m down-hole, includes a metre at 69.3g/t gold from 21m. The same zone returned 2m @ 10.47g/t gold from 33m down-hole and 3m @ 4.29g/t gold from 27m down-hole in separate drill holes down-dip of the wider zone.

King River Resources, formerly King River Copper is focusing on an alternative development plan centred on the use of acid leaching for its giant Speewah vanadium project in the east Kimberley region of WA. This has the potential for capital and operating costs savings whilst increasing and diversifying product outputs and revenue opportunities.

King River Copper has reported encouraging recoveries of vanadium, titanium and iron from separate programs of metallurgical test work underway on ore composites from its flagship Speewah project, located in the Kimberley of WA. The company is seeking the most commercially viable processing route for the ores and to determine the suite of downstream products it can technically generate for the market from the massive project.

King River Copper's Mt Remarkable project near Kununurra is continuing to live up to its name with recent drilling unearthing a new, 9m long high grade gold zone going 2.78 grams per tonne gold from 45m down-hole including 1m @ 12.45g/t gold. Step out drilling to the east also returned 5.76g/t gold, confirming the company's belief that multiple high-grade zones exist on the Trudi vein.

King River Copper has completed a scoping study that demonstrates the potential for its Windsor project in Western Australia's East Kimberley region. Windsor is potentially the only major fluorite deposit in Australia and according to King River's latest scoping study, it is capable of producing positive cashflows .The company is now proceeding with a pre-feasibility study that will allow it to report ore reserves and an economic analysis.

King River Copper has reported another outstanding gold drill result from a narrow, but ultra-high grade vein at its Mt Remarkable gold project near Kununurra in W.A. The intersection of 6m @ 60g/t gold from 24m down-hole, included an exceptional, 0.3m @ 354g/t gold from just 24.7m. Additionally, the company said that scoping study results for its separate Speewah vanadium and fluorite projects will be reported by month's end.

King River Copper has announced outstanding results from hydrometallurgical test work completed on its flagship Speewah vanadium/titanium deposit, south of Kununurra in W.A. The company reported that it had managed to produce the coveted grade of 99.51% pure vanadium pentoxide. The test work is examining a new direct leaching-precipitation method to make premium vanadium, titanium and iron products from the Speewah deposit ores.

King River Copper is awarding shareholders with one free option with an exercise price of $0.12c and an expiry date of the 31st of July 2020 for every three shares that they hold. More than 412.8m options are expected to be issued and existing option holders are not eligible unless they exercise their current options, which will result in additional options being issued.

King River Copper's first trial with an alternative processing flow sheet for its giant Speewah deposit has produced vanadium pentoxide with a purity of 99.47% and could open the door to the production of a high purity vanadium product. The new process has become the focus of testing because it produces material that is more readily upgraded into electrolytes for vanadium redox batteries.

King River Copper is thinking about a serious upsizing of its proposed mine at Speewah after an initial pit study found a monster-sized pit could be the best approach to mining the giant vanadium-titanium-iron deposit. The latest study has lowered the strip ratio to just 0.4 to 1, taking full advantage of the large, flat-lying and evenly-distributed mineralisation.

New spectacular drill results from King River Copper's Mt Remarkable gold project in the East Kimberley have extended a very high grade epithermal gold zone and shored up the company's view there could be other gold-rich zones nearby. Best results from the latest assays include 3m @ 41.75 g/t gold, including 1m @ 81.5 g/t, from a downhole depth of just 16m.

Junior explorer King River Copper's gold project at Mt Remarkable in the Kimberley region of W.A could be just that – remarkable – if the latest drilling results are anything to go by. Assay results received in the past week have revealed fine visible gold in the latest drill holes including a 4m intersection going 113 grams per tonne gold.

King River Copper has provided an unexpected windfall for its investors by converting some of its exploration tax losses into a $306,000 tax credit that will be passed on individually to its shareholders under the Government's “Exploration Development Incentive.” The credit is made possible by an innovative tax scheme introduced in 2014-15 to help greenfield explorers find Australia's next big mineral deposit

King River Copper has secured two new tenements in the underexplored Tennant Creek copper-gold belt in the Northern Territory. Its extensive 6,634km2 tenement holding is highly prospective for iron oxide copper gold deposits similar to Westgold's Rover 1 project nearby. The company is awaiting grant of its remaining applications and it is collating drill programs to target priority positions later this year.