Public Company News

ASX-listed Galan Lithium is ready to get the rods turning at its Hombre Muerto West project in South America’s prolific “Lithium Triangle” following confirmation of the next round of drilling permits from the local government body in Catamarca, Argentina. The planned drilling is designed to assess new resources and maiden reserves at Hombre Muerto West.

ASX-listed Neometals’ and its joint venture partner, mega German engineering firm, SMS Group have made the decision to fund a commercial scale lithium-ion battery recycling plant in Germany. The partners joint venture vehicle, Primobius GmbH intends to expand its demonstration plant in Germany and build up operational capacity to provide a 10 tonne per day battery disposal recycling service by early 2022.

St George Mining has lit up a strong new conductor amongst a conga line of conductors identified at its flagship Mt Alexander project in Western Australia. The stand-out conductor is located the company’s West End prospect within the Mt Alexander project along the Cathedrals mineral belt The company is confident that drilling of the target will likely deliver another high-grade discovery.

Barton Gold is all set to hit the go-button on a first phase of drilling at its Tunkillia gold project in SA after its requisite environment protection and rehabilitation plan was approved by the state’s mining department. The phase-one program will comprise about 6,000m of RC drilling as the company looks to continue broadening its geological knowledge of the project’s fertile terrane in the Gawler Craton region.

Podium Minerals continues to deliver strong platinum group metal intercepts from a resource expansion drilling campaign at its 100 per cent owned Parks Reef project near Meekatharra in Western Australia. A suite of solid new hits appears to place the company in good stead to grow the existing resource which clocks in at 1,390,000 ounces of combined platinum, palladium and gold.

Aldoro Resources continues to kick goals at its Narndee sulphide discovery in Western Australia. The company is showing a perfect scorecard with all four of its maiden diamond drill holes into the electromagnetic target returning massive sulphides. Geological logging of the recently drilled NDD0004 noted the presence of disseminated to blebby sulphides over an interval of more than 124 metres.

Perth-based AVZ Minerals is set to have all required permits and licences approved by the Democratic Republic of Congo government in the coming weeks at its flagship Manono hard rock lithium and tin project. Final approval of the mining licence is due to follow propelling the company to the cusp of reaching bankable status amid intense global interest and the background of a green battery revolution.

Conico has hit an impressive 70 metres of magnetite in its first hole at the Sortekap prospect and racked up more sulphide intercepts at the Miki prospect within the Ryberg project in Greenland. A regional airborne geophysical survey has also been completed and the company continues to reveal a bounty of targets and plans to keep the drill rods spinning.

New kid on the ASX block, Askari Metals has high-jumped into its planned work program at the Callawa copper project with a detailed mapping and sampling campaign across its highly prospective Pilbara tenements in Western Australia. The company’s 100 per cent owned Callawa tenure covers 167 square kilometres in the Pilbara’s north, east of Rio Tinto’s famed Winu discovery.

Kairos Minerals has added a major new nickel-copper and gold target at its 100 per cent owned Roe Hills project east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Extensive geochemical sampling has defined a 1km nickel-copper anomaly with values going as high as 3,120 parts per million nickel. In addition, possible gold extensions to mineralisation at the Caliburn prospect have been identified.

Kula Gold continues to tick boxes in its exploration efforts in Western Australia with SEM imaging confirming the qualitative nature of its halloysite over a 10m interval that graded an impressive 7 per cent halloysite at its exciting Boomerang discovery near Southern Cross. Elsewhere, the company has beefed up its Brunswick tenure east of Bunbury with acquisition of the historical Donnybrook gold mine.

Anglo Australian Resources has tabled an impressive 33 per cent increase in the mineral resource estimate for its flagship Mandilla gold project in WA. Mandilla now boasts a JORC resource of 19.8 million tonnes at 1.0 gram per tonne gold for 664,600 ounces of contained gold. The company already has the rods turning again as it embarks on the next massive 55,000m drilling blitz.