Public Company News

ASX-listed Buru Energy has got its new drilling in Western Australia’s onshore Canning Basin off to a flying start with the first casing set in the Currajong 1 exploration well. Targeting 28 million barrels of conventional oil, Buru’s drilling of Currajong 1 is due to conclude in the next two weeks. A second well targeting 69 million barrels of oil at Rafael 1 is set to follow.

ASX-listed Hot Chili has applied to dual list on the Toronto Stock Exchange as it steps up its funding and development plans for the proposed large-scale Costa Fuego copper-gold project in Chile. The Canadian share market has a proven track record of supporting world-class exploration and development companies in the copper space with a number of recent transformative dual listings.

Novo Resources’ conglomerate gold-fed operation at Nullagine in WA continues to break new production records with the company pumping out more than 16.5 per cent more gold in June than in the previous month. Novo’s Golden Eagle mill produced 5,898 ounces of fine gold for the period, with the company also posting revenue of $12.8 million.

ASX-listed software-as-a-service provider K2fly has achieved strong business growth momentum heading into its new fiscal year with surging revenues and invoicing in the June quarter rounding out a successful FY2021. During the financial year K2fly landed significant new contracts with large miners which saw it invoice A$2.54 million in the June quarter, up 34 per cent year-on-year, bringing FY21 invoices to $7.8 million.

Venus Metals and joint venture partner Rox Resources have delivered solid gold hits including 5m at 5.96 grams per tonne gold near an old underground mine the duo plan to bring into production at the Youanmi gold project in the Murchison district of Western Australia.

St George Mining is off to a flying start in its copper-gold search in the “world-class” Paterson region of Western Australia with multiple holes from its maiden drilling campaign at its Paterson prospect hitting prospective basement rocks. Initial XRF analysis has returned elevated levels of pathfinder elements suggesting potential for base metal and gold mineralisation across 35km of target stratigraphy at the company’s tenure.

ASX newcomer Barton Gold is poised to commence drilling at its Tarcoola and Tunkillia gold projects in South Australia’s famed Gawler Craton, where the company is looking to build on a plus-1 million ounce resource base. SA-based contractor Bullion Drilling is mobilising to join Barton Gold’s exploration team on site and kick off more than 11,000m of drilling over coming weeks.

Askari Metals has successfully listed on the ASX, hitting the boards at an impressive 25 per cent premium to its 20c offer price. The company has raised close to $6 million as part of its initial public offering and has already locked in a drill rig to begin testing its highly prospective suite of copper and gold projects in Western Australia.

Lithium Australia appears to have taken a key step to commercialising its lithium manganese ferro phosphate or “LMFP” cathode powder used in lithium-ion batteries with the product now available for consumer testing. The company says LMFP-type batteries are cheaper, safer and longer lasting than traditional nickel-based alternatives with the likes of Tesla transitioning to phosphate-based batteries to power its electric vehicles.

Premium fertiliser hopeful Trigg Mining has edged closer to an ultimate development of its Lake Throssell sulphate of potash project near Laverton in WA following a “highly successful” brine pumping field trial. The company hopes to deliver a maiden indicated mineral resource this quarter on the back of its recently released inferred-category resource estimate of 14.2Mt of drainable sulphate of potash at 4,638mg/L potassium.

Aldoro Resources is spreading its wings in Western Australia’s Murchison region, snapping up lithium pegmatite prospects adjacent to its Windimurra lithium footprint through a deal to acquire the neighbouring Wyemandoo as well as the Niobe tantalum-lithium project near Mount Magnet from privately-owned Meridian 120 Mining. Aldoro says Windimurra is rich in lithium-cesium-tantalum or “LCT” type pegmatites, with tungsten also present.

Valor Resources has bumped up its uranium exploration acreage in the mighty Athabasca Basin region in central Canada to 986 square kilometres by acquiring five new projects, including one along strike from Rio Tinto’s Janice Lake property. The Athabasca Basin has historically produced about 20 per cent of global primary uranium supply and hosts the world’s highest-grade uranium mine at Cigar Lake.