Public Company News

Adriatic Metals has unearthed another batch of thick, high-grade massive sulphide mineralisation at its Rupice Northwest orebody - an extension of its Rupice multi-commodity deposit in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Diamond drilling at the site returned a broad 45.9 metre hit going 701 grams per tonne silver equivalent about 225m north-west of the company’s 12 million tonne resource grading 149 g/t silver, 1.4 g/t gold and 4.1 per cent zinc.

Classic Minerals has received high-grade results from extensional drilling at its flagship Kat Gap gold project in the Goldfields region of WA as the company moves steadily closer to production at the site. Assay highlights include a 6m section going a solid 12.12 grams per tonne gold from 70m including a 1m hit at an impressive 51.1 g/t gold from 70m whilst a second hole returned a 10m intercept grading 9.26 g/t gold from 57m including 3m recording 28.3 g/t gold from 70m.

Shares in Aruma Resources soared more than 50 per cent higher during intraday trade after the company confirmed a string of impressive assay results from recent drilling at its Mt Deans project near Kalgoorlie with 12 strikes grading more than 1.5 per cent lithium-rubidium. The results sent the company’s share price on a tear to an intraday high of 8.2c from a previous close of 5.3 cents on the highest daily trading volume in nearly a year.

Radiopharm Theranostics has appointed Rama Abu Shmeis as Senior Vice President Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls, or “CMC” as the latest in a line of top-shelf appointments. The ASX-listed cancer fighter says Dr Shmeis brings a 23-year record of achievements in leading strategic, operational and scientific aspects of CMC development and manufacturing that also covers a wide variety of dose forms, products and technologies.

Everest Metals Corporation has hailed a new agreement to earn up to 100 per cent in the advanced Revere gold project north-east of Meekatharra in WA as a transformational opportunity for the company. Everest, formally known as Twenty Seven Co pointed to the zone’s historical production, significant gold-copper potential and clear runway to establishing a JORC compliant resource as key merits in the acquisition.

New assays from RC drilling at Surefire Resources' Victory Bore deposit in WA’s Mid West have delivered extensive vanadium mineralisation the company says could rate it amongst the country’s best. The work follows the discovery of three parallel mineralised lodes including broad intercepts of up to 56m at 0.48 per cent vanadium oxide with Surefire looking to build on the site's already monstrous 151 million tonne resource.

CZR Resources is a step closer to production at its Robe Mesa iron ore project after receiving mining approval from the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety for two of the site’s key deposits. The approval has been granted for the company’s Robe Mesa and P529 deposits that respectively sit north and south of Rio Tinto’s Mesa F project around 120km from Karratha in the Pilbara region of WA.

ASX-listed Neometals’ joint venture Primobius has expanded a technology and battery recycling JV option agreement with leading steel producer Stelco Holdings to allow it time to buy into its lithium-ion battery special purpose vehicle. The amendment follows a 2021 agreement for the duo to establish a long-term commercial recycling relationship in North America – one of the fastest growing sectors in terms of lithium-ion battery production.

Strickland Metals is pressing ahead with plans to spinoff its base metals assets into a new company to seek better value for the projects whilst focusing on its prospective gold package in central WA. The company has also gained heritage clearance to drill at its Iroquois project, which along with its Bryah Basin assets will be the centerpiece of the new operation.

Lindian Resources has received its first assays from the company’s maiden campaign at its Kangankunde project in Malawi showing continuous rare earths mineralisation from surface across the length of both holes. Assay highlights include a 1m section recording an outstanding 11.8 per cent total rare earth oxide, or “TREO” from 13m with a second 1m section going 11.1 per cent TREO from 12m.

ASX listed Estrella Resources has completed the mining and crushing phase of its nickel sulphide extraction program using ore from its 5A nickel mine near Kambalda in WA. The company plans to treat the high-grade material at Glencore’s Murrin Murrin facility after sealing an offtake and processing agreement late last year.

ASX-listed Okapi Resources has reinforced its uranium footprint in the United States after securing full ownership of 45 new mining claims and one State Mineral lease in Colorado. The acquisition stretches the boundaries of the company’s Maybell uranium project where historical production tipped the scales at 5.3 million pounds of triuranium octoxide running a solid average grade of 1300 parts per million.