Public Company News

Surefire Resources is set to ramp up its exploration across WA, with the multi-metal explorer looking to begin realising the true value in its diversified project portfolio. Whilst the company’s Yidby gold project has stolen the limelight in recent months, Surefire is also keen to launch into exploration over its nearby Perenjori iron ore project and the Kooline silver project in WA’s Ashburton region.

Estrella Resources is tapping into the deeper potential of its Carr Boyd nickel discovery in WA, with drilling intersecting a broad zone of sulphide mineralisation at around 590 metres down-hole. The drilling confirms the down-dip extensions to the previously intersected mineralisation, with other recent intervals including 3.7m at 1.14 per cent nickel and 0.74 per cent copper from 516.8m down-hole.

With more than 20 million ounces of historical gold production, the Zuleika Shear west of Kalgoorlie is tiger country and Dampier Gold would appear to have the tiger by the tail. The company is about to plough 30,000m of targeted air core and RC holes into its gaggle of gold projects around the Goldfields region that are headlined by the Zuleika gold project.

White Cliff Minerals has unearthed some encouraging copper results from an extensive soil sampling program at its early-stage Midas copper-gold project in WA’s revered Paterson Province. The company says its maiden reconnaissance program comprising just over 500 samples identified a 3km long copper-bearing structural corridor containing around three dozen copper hits of above 830 parts per billion under transported cover.

Calidus Resources has tied up the remaining 30 per cent interest in eight exploration tenements and three application areas surrounding its rapidly developing Warrawoona gold project in a deal with co-owner and fellow Pilbara gold developer, Novo Resources. The final consideration for Calidus to lock up 100 per cent-ownership of the ground was a one per cent net smelter royalty across the tenements payable to Novo upon production.

A week after new US President Joe Biden sent a shudder through the petroleum sector by temporarily halting future oil & gas property leasing, Australia’s 88 Energy is preparing to commence a critical drilling campaign on its already secured leases on Alaska’s prolific North Slope. The company is ticking all the boxes as it prepares to spud the first well at its exciting Project Peregrine.

Gold hopeful, Kingwest Resources has turned in the first assays from its inaugural aircore drilling campaign at the Goongarrie gold project and they have not disappointed. The initial report card reads well with one of the best hits returning a stellar 38m at 3.1 g/t gold from 62m, including 6m at 17.2 g/t from 94m downhole. The project sits almost on the main highway between Kalgoorlie and Menzies.

Okapi Resources is onto extensive gold anomalism at its Lake Johnson project east of Norseman in WA. Soil sampling across the company’s Mt Day gold prospect has thrown up three priority gold targets, the largest of which covers close to 2,000 metres of strike. Management is now planning further sampling across the targets as it looks to drill test them in the coming months.

ASX-listed clinical-stage biotech group, PharmAust has put out a call to pet owners who have dogs with B-cell lymphoma to allow their pets to participate in a Phase IIb trial to help the company evaluate its newly formulated anti-cancer drug Monepantel. PharmAust says recent trials have shown the drug is a safe and effective treatment for dogs that have not undergone any treatment for this type of cancer.

Deep Yellow has been recognised by OTC Markets as one of the premier performers on its OTCQX platform. The aspiring uranium producer made OTCQX’s Top 50 listing, which acknowledges the company’s annual share price performance and its commitment to international regulatory and compliance standards. Deep Yellow continues to develop the Tumas uranium project in Namibia with its PFS for the project set to be delivered in the coming weeks.

ASX-listed aged-care and healthcare technology outfit, InteliCare continued to produce steady sales growth in the December quarter, highlighted by the recent order from Eremea Home Care Services in NSW, while having increased its distributor sales channels by 45 per cent. At the end of the quarter, the Perth-based company was sitting on a solid cash pile of $3.1 million.

Anglo Australian has extracted high gold recoveries from initial metallurgical test work conducted on oxide and fresh rock ores from its historic Mandilla gold project near Kambalda in WA. Gold recoveries predominantly in the high-90s percentage range were recorded, which the company says supports a conventional gravity and CIP processing pathway to gold production. The company is edging closer to a mineral resource estimate for the project’s Mandilla East deposit.