Announcements

Junior explorer Strickland Metals says its recently acquired 346,000-ounce Millrose gold project on the north-eastern flank of the prolific gold-bearing Yandal-Millrose greenstone belt in WA provides an outstanding drill-ready opportunity to potentially grow its gold resource base in pursuit of possible early production in the region. The Perth-based company snapped up the project for $10 million from previous owners Millrose Gold Mines and Golden Eagle Mining.

Godolphin Resources says it has encountered sulphides in all RC holes drilled into the Quarry lode prospect at its high-priority Lewis Ponds mixed metals project 15km east of Orange in the Lachlan Fold Belt of NSW. The aim of the quartet of RC holes vectoring in on the upper levels of Quarry lode was to extend the lode mineralisation near surface and to the north of the current Lewis Ponds mineral resource.

Junior exploration company, Twenty Seven Co has uncovered numerous high-grade lithium and tin showings in the northern part of its 100 per cent owned Trident project near Broken Hill in New South Wales. A review of historical geochemical and sample data has returned lithium occurrences going as high as a dazzling 7.63 per cent lithium oxide.

Resource drilling by specialty metals company, Technology Metals Australia has identified a thickening of its Yarrabubba magnetite iron and vanadium deposit south of Meekatharra in WA. Drilling in the south-east of the existing 27.7Mt resource going 38.7 per cent iron and 0.9 per cent vanadium pentoxide has returned broad high-grade zones including 24m at 50.2 per cent iron and 1.13 per cent vanadium pentoxide.

Galan Lithium has partnered with leading sustainable supply chain traceability provider, London-headquartered international group Circulor Ltd as the ASX-listed lithium development hopeful seeks to become a preferred source of lithium carbonate supply to global markets. It says the collaborative partnership with Circulor will look to establish full lithium traceability and carbon dioxide and environmental, social and governance tracking for its lithium brine assets in Argentina’s “lithium triangle”.

Junior exploration company, Zuleika Gold has potentially unveiled a broad gold system at its Breakaway Dam prospect near Kalgoorlie in WA with 21 air-core drill holes intersecting gold including a peak 4m at 4.3 g/t gold. A second potential new gold zone may also have been intersected at its Credo Well gold project some 25km to the west.

WA-focused explorer, Kairos Minerals has returned the best high-grade gold hit in the history of its Mt York project in the Pilbara after striking a cracking 32m at 3.79 g/t gold. Described by the company as an exceptional intercept, it comes as part of an ongoing 20,000m drilling campaign seeking to add more gold to the 873,500-ounce resource base at the project.

Horizon Minerals has tabled an updated mineral resource estimate for one of the key satellite gold deposits that underpins its proposed flagship Boorara gold production hub about 15km east of Kalgoorlie. The revised resource for the company’s Jacques Find-Peyes Farm deposit, located at the Teal project area 10km north-west of Kalgoorlie, weighs in at 1.74 million tonnes grading 2.32 g/t for 130,000 ounces of contained gold.

Innovative project developer, Neometals and its partner, SMS Group, have moved a step closer to testing their lithium-ion battery recycling technology after successfully managing to integrate the first two stages of its showcase recycling demonstration plant in Germany. The duo, via their 50-50 Primobius joint venture, is looking to recover valuable materials such as lithium, nickel and cobalt from end-of-life batteries.

Perth-based junior explorer Aruma Resources is set to get boots on the ground after receiving the green light to kick off drilling at its Salmon Gums gold project in WAs prolific Norseman goldfields. The company plans to undertake a maiden 3,000m RC program at the project, located 30km south and along strike from the recent Scotia gold discovery.

Perth-based gold-miner Wiluna Mining is frantically ticking boxes as it gains momentum on the downhill run towards commissioning its 750,000 tonne-per-annum flotation plant as part of its major production ramp-up plan at its namesake project in WA. The company expects the plant to be in operation in December and is targeting increased production to 120,000 ounces per annum by the end of the 2022 financial year.

ASX-listed Quantum Graphite says the first two holes of an eight-hole diamond drilling campaign along the ‘Eastern Conductor’ near its Uley 2 resource on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia appear to have successfully intercepted multiple graphitic zones. Uley 2 already takes in a hefty 6.3 million tonne resource going 11.1 per cent total graphitic content.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources has taken two crucial steps in its journey towards becoming Australia’s next gold producer completing installation of the mill at its Warrawoona project in WAs Pilbara region and signing a mining services agreement with Macmahon Holdings. Construction is now more than 60 per cent complete with the company on track to pour first gold in the June quarter next year.

Market punters pushed Metal Hawk’s share price through the roof after maiden reverse circulation drilling at the company’s Berehaven nickel project near Kalgoorlie hit massive sulphide nickel mineralisation. Metal Hawk’s share price touched 76c in intraday trading after it announced a two-metre intersection of massive and semi-massive nickel sulphide mineralisation from 144m. The company’s previous day’s closing share price was 18.5c.

ASX-listed Barton Gold is continuing its aggressive exploration approach at its 100 per cent owned Tarcoola and Tunkillia gold projects in the South Australia’s revered Gawler Craton. With the South Australian government contributing up to $300,000 courtesy of its “Accelerated Discovery” initiative, the company has commenced a high-resolution gravity survey designed to refine its new regional structural model and optimise future drill targeting.

Multi-mineral exploration company, Okapi Resources has snapped up a 100 per cent interest in the historical Sunnyside uranium mine in Utah, USA, after staking mining claims that cover 960 acres adjacent to Okapi’s existing Rattler uranium project. The Sunnyside uranium mine comprises several small past-producing pits where uranium and vanadium were both mined in the early 1900’s at high grades. The project has seen no modern exploration since.

Nickel exploration company, St George Mining says maiden regional drilling at two 100 per cent owned prospects near its exciting Mt Alexander nickel sulphide discovery in Western Australia’s north-eastern Goldfields has intercepted broad intervals of host rocks prospective for nickel sulphide mineralisation. The company believes its Mt Alexander tenure has potential to develop into a major multi-deposit nickel camp.

Minerals technology group Neometals’ joint venture partner Critical Metals has struck a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Swedish company H2 Green Steel that may open the door to a possible second vanadium recovery project for the partners. The collaboration with H2 Green Steel complements the existing agreement between Neometals and Critical Metals in relation to their proposed vanadium recovery plant in Finland.

ASX-listed Northern Minerals has progressed its potentially game changing ore sorting initiative with the successful testing of the sorter system at its Browns Range rare earths pilot operation in the north of WA. The company is now producing sorted material and converting this to a 30 percent total rare earth oxide concentrate. Processing of the ore sorted material has resulted in remarkably better recoveries.

Perth-based Wiluna Mining has wrapped up a mammoth 175km of drilling over the past 18 months to support a resource and reserve upgrade integral for its stage 2 sulphide development feasibility study. Latest drilling results from the East Lode and Happy Jack lodes continue to impress with intercepts grading up to 53.4 g/t gold confirming Wiluna as a high-grade mineralised system.

Bardoc Gold’s hopes of increasing the forecast mine life of its namesake multi-deposit gold project near Kalgoorlie in WA have been buoyed by recent encouraging extensional and infill drilling results. Best numbers from the latest diamond drill hits from gold-bearing lodes in the key Zoroastrian deposit area are 4.5m grading 3.53 g/t gold from 102m, 1m at 11.7 g/t from 466m and 6m at 2.44 g/t from 460m.

Kingwest Resources has produced an exceptional set of first pass drill results that appear to show a significant gold discovery lurking under the mineralised cover at Lake Goongarrie north of Kalgoorlie. Twelve holes intersected significant gold values across a 500 metre extent of the first drill line within Target A10 of the newly named Sir Laurence prospect under the lake at Goongarrie.

The first leach-test results from Abx Group’s rare earth elements mineralisation at its Tasmanian bauxite project have confirmed the rare earths can be leached by cold water, with enhanced reaction times and recoveries if ammonium sulphate is added to the mix. Importantly, the heavy rare earth elements are enriched in the precipitate and deleterious elements are depleted and only very low radioactive elements remain in the concentrate.

ASX-listed Terrain Minerals looks set to get the rods spinning again at its Smokebush project in Western Australia’s Murchison goldfield. A 3,600-metre reverse circulation drill program is slated to follow up recent “exciting” new gold zones. An additional 3,000 metres of air core drilling is also earmarked to test promising regional coincident gold-arsenic anomalies.

ASX-listed junior gold explorer Superior Resources has passed the hat around for $1.26 million to fund exploration at its fast-moving Steam Engine gold project and Bottletree copper deposit in Queensland. New drilling for 2,300 metres of diamond core is imminent on the Bottletree deposit whilst Steam Engine probably represents Superior’s best pathway to early production.

Hot Chili’s exploration success continues with more high-grade copper-gold intercepts across the northern flank of its Cortadera deposit in Chile. The new intercepts have effectively increased the width of the main porphyry, Cuerpo 3, by approximately 100m, demonstrating a strong continuity of high-grade mineralisation.

ASX-listed 3D metal printing group Aurora Labs has entered a pivotal point in its well flagged technology development pathway strategy as it prepares to take the next step towards commercialisation of its 3D printing technology. The Perth-based company says it is now on the verge of reaching the final technical milestone of the technology development pathway that signals commercial readiness of its suite of products.

Nickel exploration company, Estrella Resources has dished out numerous sulphide intercepts at its exciting T5 discovery near the historical Carr Boyd Rocks nickel mine north of Kalgoorlie in WA, where a discovery hole returned 13.9m at 1.07 per cent nickel late last year. The company is now set to launch a 7,500m drilling blitz that will look to grow the mineralised zone and test 3.5km of strike to the north.

Venus Metals and joint venture partner, Rox Resources continue to deliver the goods at their Youanmi gold project in the Murchison district of WA with latest drilling at the Link prospect striking more gold, including a bumper 7.25m intercept going 15.02 g/t gold. The duo is looking to uncover more ounces to add to the already impressive 1.66-million-ounce resource at the project.

Blackstone Minerals has continued to encounter massive nickel sulphide mineralisation at its Ban Chang prospect at the Ta Khoa project in northern Vietnam about 160km west of the country’s capital city of Hanoi as it heads towards a maiden resource estimate for the key deposit. The company says recent infill diamond drilling at Ban Chang intersected 5.35m of massive sulphide nickel in one hole within a broader 11.4m interval.

Toronto-listed conglomerate gold producer, Novo Resources is set to splash out a further A$2.5 million on near-mine exploration drilling as it looks to source more feed for its Golden Eagle processing facility at its Nullagine gold project in the Pilbara region of WA. The company has identified more than 20 drill targets within trucking distance of Golden Eagle that will be targeted by 25,000m of drilling by year’s end.

Budding gold producer Calidus Resources has been buoyed by visible gold seen in drill core from a quartet of recent diamond holes aimed at verifying its high-grade Blue Spec satellite underground gold resource in WA’s prolific Pilbara goldfield. The company is working towards finalising an updated mineral resource estimate for Blue Spec as part of its continuing definitive feasibility study on mining and processing ore from the deposit.