Public Company News

Alterra has appointed John McGlue to its advisory board as it gears up to enter the potentially lucrative agricultural sector with an initial focus on the avocado market. McGlue brings over 30 years of experience in corporate communications and financial markets to Alterra and he is the founder and Principal of corporate advisory firm, Castle Gates Australia. Alterra provides a co-investment model as a potential vehicle for farmers to diversify their conventional bank funding models.

Africa-focused lithium developer, AVZ Minerals appears on track to deliver its definitive feasibility study in the first few months of 2020 at its massive Manono lithium and tin project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Phase two metallurgical test work continues to deliver encouraging results in support of the ongoing DFS. Testing previously generated a spodumene concentrate that exceeds 6% lithium oxide and the company says that phase two met results are lining up well.

Metallurgist and mining executive, Marc Ducler, has taken the helm at Anglo Australian Resources whilst experienced mining lawman, Leigh Warnick, has been appointed Chairman. John Jones, Peter Stern and David Varcoe will remain on the board as part of a pre-Xmas peace deal that saw the warring parties place their batton’s back in their knapsacks and appoint the largely independent team of Ducler and Warnick to spearhead the company.

It’s raining gold for Rox Resources and Venus Metals at their Youanmi South project after the partners made a spectacular 14m drill intersection going an ounce to the tonne gold from just 1m deep. The new drill hit also included 5m grading 77.03g/t gold and 3m grading an exceptional 123.66g/t gold. Youanmi has been the gift that keeps on giving this year for multiple parties.

The Davyhurst gold project has gifted Ora Banda Mining a grab bag of impressive drill results for Xmas with the first being a stunning 19-metre intersection grading 24.5 grams per tonne gold from 63 metres downhole. The new intersection includes a 6.4-metre zone grading well over 2 ounces to the tonne at 71.6 g/t. Davyhurst looks well set to ride again under a reconstituted Ora Banda Mining.

Lithium Australia and partner, Envirostream Australia, look like getting into cashflow after shipping their first batch of recycled lithium, cobalt, nickel and graphite that was extracted from old lithium-ion batteries that otherwise would have been sent to landfill. Lithium Australia know owns 84% of Envirostream and is aiming to get to 90 per cent in time.

Hammer Metals has ploughed in 123 first-pass aircore holes at its Bronzewing South gold project and the company appears to have hit on what looks to be something quite interesting. Hammer recently reported composited sample assays from across Target 1 and it has since split the samples down to one-metre intervals. Best numbers include 14 metres at 1.80 g/t gold from 12 metres including 3 metres at 5.57 g/t.

Troy Resources has re-stocked its financial armoury with a placement raising $4 million and an $11 million loan facility supporting the restart of operations at its Karouni gold mine that went onto care and maintenance in October after a fatality on site. Since then, exploration has outlined a new style of mineralisation near the Hicks 1 pit with an impressive 17m hit grading 5 ounces to the tonne gold.

A strategic drilling expenditure increase by Great Southern Mining at it’s under-explored Cox’s Find gold project in WA has paid off in spades with ounce plus hits regularly spinning up out of the depths this year pointing to a potential deep continuation of the lodes well below the old historical mine workings. The company has also been awarded $150,000 from the Western Australian Government’s Exploration Incentive Scheme.

Existing Middle Island Resources shareholders and renowned mining investor, Stephen Copulos, have corner-stoned a $2.35 million capital raise that will see the aspiring gold miner turbocharge its WA Sandstone project. The company will now look to substantially boost its mineral resources, which already houses a mothballed mill that could be prodded back into life if a solid mineral reserve can be eeked out.

Vonex is in the final stages of the development of its new technology that looks set to disrupt the internet-based telecommunications market. The company is looking to launch its new “Oper8tor” APP that will provide a singular platform for seamless communications between multiple different messaging, video, voice and conferencing online platforms. There are currently 3.26 billion users worldwide accessing over 100 different social media sites.

Mining heavyweight, Mineral Resources, is now lurking purposefully at 19.9% on the Norwest Energy share register after the JV partners upped their theoretical chances of hitting paydirt at the Perth Basin, Lockyer Deep-1 onshore gas prospect in the Perth Basin from 29% to 38%. Mineral Resources, which already has an 80% interest in Lockyer Deep-1, will need to launch a takeover bid to secure any more significant lines of Norwest stock.