Public Company News

TSX-listed Novo Resources has gained a prominent new shareholder following a C$5 million strategic investment by private explorer Liatam Mining. The funding package will be principally used to vector in on battery metals across the company’s Quartz Hill tenements in the Nullagine district of Western Australia and will lean on Liatam’s experience in the sector.

Iron ore could be exported from Onslow in WA’s Pilbara region under a new plan hatched between CZR Resources, Strike Resources and CSL Australia.

ASX-listed explorer Aurumin has entered into a drill for equity agreement with contractor Topdrill ahead of the company’s planned campaign at its Central Sandstone project about 520km north-east of Perth. According to the agreement, Aurumin can pay up to 50 per cent of its drilling costs invoiced by Topdrill by issuing ordinary shares from its placement capacity up to a maximum of $1 million.

Whether it is gold, wool, timber, apples, salt, education, beef or even sea cucumbers, Australia has long punched above its weight in the trade stakes, even centuries before it was named Australia.

WA mineral sands company Image Resources has refined its Atlas deposit in resource to 17.3 million tonnes at 5.7 per cent heavy minerals.

Rock chip sampling at Infinity Mining’s Brisbane nickel prospect in the Pilbara region of Western Australia has returned anomalous nickel and chromium results within the company’s greater Panorama project. The explorer collected a total of 35 samples at the site with assays showing results of up to 7636 parts-per-million nickel and 8918ppm chromium consistent with previous geochemical results.

RC drilling at Surefire Resources' Victory Bore deposit in WA’s Mid West region has returned a host of broad vanadium intercepts with widths of up to 92m at 0.41 per cent vanadium pentoxide. The company says the probe has led to the discovery of three parallel mineralised lodes which it believes could bolster its already massive 151 million tonnes mineral resource once additional drilling and modelling is complete.

Mineral explorer Godolphin Resources has strengthened its burgeoning rare earths portfolio with the acquisition of two exploration licences in New South Wales and Queensland. The company picked up the ground after sifting through publicly available geological data and says it could commence boots on the ground exploration as early as January 2023.

Aruma Resources has more than quadrupled the greenstone belt width at its Salmon Guns gold project near Esperance to more than three kilometres and will vector in on new drill targets with an aeria

Askari Metals has encountered visible lithium mineralisation from the first phase of drilling at its Uis lithium project in Namibia in addition to intersecting tantalum and tin in the site’s pegmatites. The company has just wrapped up its first drill campaign at the African operation where it completed 59 RC holes for 3017m as part of an overall 10,000m program set to recommence in February next year.

Unlike traditional participants in the energy technology space Quantum Graphite plans to extract value from its Uley mine in South Australia through the development of heat cells that could ultimately replace coal in thermal power plants. The work stream is all part of a 50-50 joint venture agreement with Melbourne-based Sunlands Company that will see the duo establish a major downstream energy business.

ASX-listed PolarX is firing up the drill rigs in the snow-covered Nevada mountains on the hunt for some US Christmas gold to ring in the new year at its Star Canyon prospect.