Public Company News

King River Resources’ newly commissioned laboratory scale pilot plant is off to a flying start after it delivered an ultra-high purity aluminium precursor compound for application in the lucrative lithium-ion battery industry. The company says an inaugural run of the plant using its proprietary “ARC” processing technology delivered a 99.9995 per cent purity “Type 1” precursor product.

Newfield Resources is pulling out all stops at its Tongo mine development in Sierra Leone as it gets set for a first run of diamonds. 845m of underground has now been dug and a return air way shaft is getting tantalisingly close to its targeted level. The Kundu decline is about to access the first mining level with services such as power, air and water pump stations constructed along the way.

Aurum Resources is getting set for a gold drilling blitz on two fronts in WA early in the new year. The explorer has slated up to 6000m of RC drilling at its Penny South project that sits adjacent to Ramelius Resources’ Penny North deposit where 306,800 ounces grading a remarkable 16.8 g/t gold have been defined. It also plans to drill-test its Ryan’s Find project north-east of Southern Cross.

Memphasys has successfully collected data from approximately 240 horse inseminations to test its novel “SAMSON” stallion fertility diagnostic device that may cut sperm diagnosis times down to a rapid 15 minutes. SAMSON measures the quality of semen and predicts the likelihood that it will achieve a pregnancy. Currently there are no other similar devices on the market and a 14 day wait is required to check for pregnancy through ultrasound.

Novo Resources has unveiled a suite of gold-copper and nickel-copper-cobalt targets in the West Pilbara region of WA. The company is now progressing EM surveys to advance its latest findings.

Gold developer, Calidus Resources is set to unleash the rig for a regional gold search aiming to grow its existing 1.7 million ounce resource base in the Pilbara region of WA. The company will drill-test multiple greenfields targets near its Blue Spec resource and in proximity to its multi-deposit Warrawoona project that is set to churn out 90,000 ounces of gold per annum from next year.

Meeka Gold has delivered a compelling scoping study evaluating the proposed production of gold at its Murchison project in WA. According to the company, it will pocket $457m over 8 years for a net present value of $124m. Significantly, the project has an IRR of 46 per cent and the company says it could advance the value of its project through systematic exploration.

Empire Energy could be gearing up for a busy end of year after its in-progress Carpentaria-2 well sniffed out a suite of thick liquid rich gas shales across four stacked Velkerri Formation pay zones in the vertical section of its Beetaloo Sub-Basin ground. The company is now set to tap the middle Velkerri B shale by drilling the horizontal section of the Carpentaria-2H well.

WA-focused nickel explorer, St George Mining has unveiled a large, compelling nickel-copper sulphide target beneath its Investigators prospect located at its Mt Alexander project in the north-eastern Goldfields. Previous drilling at the prospect delivered multiple shallower intercepts including a cracking 8.49m going 5.8 per cent nickel and 2.6 per cent copper from 183.9m. The company now plans to drill-test the deeper priority target early next year.

Mineral exploration company, PolarX has wrapped up a quartet of significant exploration programs in as many months at its Caribou Dome copper project in Alaska and its Humboldt-Range gold-silver project in Nevada. The company has confirmed visual mineralisation across a number of exploration programs and assays are now pending and will be highly anticipated across all four programs.

Superior Resources has intersected sulphide mineralisation in its first two drill holes targeting a large, induced polarisation anomaly at the company’s Bottletree Copper prospect within its Greenvale project in Queensland. The company believes it may be onto a potential porphyry system west of the induced polarisation anomaly indicated by an enormous 1.5 kilometre by 1km intense copper and gold soil anomaly coincident with a large magnetic feature.

Galan Lithium has tabled a stunning set of numbers in an economic assessment study that shows its Candelas lithium brine project in Argentina will make A$265m a year for 25 years for a net present value of A$1.7b at today’s USD exchange rates. The economic evaluation of Candelas adds to Galan’s nearby Hombre Muerto West lithium brine project where a 40 year mine life has already been envisaged.