Public Company News

First pass rock chip sampling at Twenty Seven Co’s multi-element Trident project near Broken Hill in New South Wales has delivered a suite of strong copper, gold and tin hits. The results include 17.6 per cent copper, 1.275 grams per tonne gold and 2.44 per cent tin. The company is now planning further sampling around the high-grade results.

ASX-listed gold explorer Barton Gold has wound up its maiden Phase 1 drilling program at its Tunkillia gold project in South Australia. Results have defined a high-grade shallow core at the 223 deposit, highlighting a potential development opportunity as a higher grade starter pit. Drilling has coughed up a slew of significant intercepts including 12m going 2.7 g/t from 101 metres.

ASX-listed Infinity Lithium is ticking off the milestones at its San José lithium project in Spain with the successful completion of the next phase of test work triggering the second investment by EIT InnoEnergy of €200,000. Under an agreement struck last year, the third and final payment of €200,000 is payable upon the completion of the bench scale test work slated for the first quarter of 2022.

Metal Hawk has snagged another solid nickel hit down dip of its discovery RC drillhole that the company says demonstrates continuity of high-grade mineralisation at its Berehaven nickel project 20km south-east of Kalgoorlie. The significant drill hit gave up a 3.4m section grading a solid 2.32 per cent nickel from 203.8m downhole just 50m down-dip of a previously reported 1m hit going 5.89 per cent nickel from 144m.

Tambourah Metals has swooped on additional land near Chalice Mining’s spectacular Julimar nickel-copper-PGE discovery in WA to become the second largest landholder in the Julimar region with a sizeable 1,127 square kilometres. The company has picked up two new exploration licences that it says are prospective for nickel, copper and platinum group elements in the region.

Triangle Energy is set to get the ball rolling on a front end engineering design study on a proposed 5,000 barrel per day modular feed renewable fuel refinery in the mid-west of WA. The refinery is slated to use crude, condensate and bio-crude feedstocks to produce renewable diesel and renewable marine fuel blends.

Novo Resources looks set to commence phase two mechanical sorting trials on its Pilbara gold deposits. The company says its ore sorter will be installed adjacent to the Golden Eagle processing facility in Nullagine and it expects trials to commence early next month. Following testing, Novo will relocate the unit and has plans to commercialise some of its lower grade Pilbara conglomerate gold deposits courtesy of the ore sorter.

West Cobar Metals says maiden drilling at its Bulla Park copper and silver project on the western edges of the mineral-rich Cobar Basin in NSW has confirmed its geological model for stratabound copper mineralisation at its namesake prospect. The company says all four holes drilled so far have intercepted zones of disseminated copper mineralisation, with the rig now set to test other compelling targets at its tenure.

Latitude Consolidated has struck wide gold mineralisation at its Circle Valley project within the Albany-Fraser mobile belt that hosts the multi-million-ounce Tropicana gold deposit. Multi-element analysis from end of hole sampling has highlighted a suite of pathfinder elements that the company says bear a striking resemblance to the geochemistry that led to the discovery of the behemoth Tropicana deposit.

Venture Minerals could be gearing up for a cracking end of year after market darling and JV partner Chalice Mining revived a previously paused EM survey on its “Julimar lookalike” target at the duo’s South West nickel-copper-PGE project about 240 kilometres south of Perth. The survey will focus on Venture’s Thor target, a 20km long magnetic anomaly that has drawn comparisons with Chalice’s revered Julimar discovery.

Mining focused software-as-a-service provider, K2fly has extended a pre-existing contract for its ‘RCubed Resource & Reserves Solution’ platform with global mining giant, Glencore Canada by three years. The agreement is set to contribute A$443,000 in total contract value and A$130,00 in annual recurring revenue to K2fly’s coffers, with Glencore to use the product for its global zinc operations at 56 sites across seven countries.

Perth-based Comet Resources looks on track to carve itself a healthy-sized slice of the lucrative downstream graphite pie after inductively coupled plasma or “ICP” assay testing of its natural flak