Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

InteliCare has joined the winners list in this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Rising Star Awards. The coveted program is in its 20th year and looks to rank Australia’s fastest-growing public or private technology companies, providing international recognition for local innovation. InteliCare is successfully harnessing artificial intelligence to provide smart home monitoring solutions to help care for the elderly and disabled people.

Dampier Gold has locked in a $6 million capital raise to fund its ongoing exploration program in WA’s Eastern Goldfields. The company’s placement was oversubscribed and well supported by both institutional and strategic investors, with the funding ear-marked to expedite exploration across its Zuleika Shear projects, including more than 8,000m of aircore drilling planned for early 2021.

ASX-listed Calidus Resources is marching towards the start-up at its flagship Warrawoona gold mining project in WA’s Pilbara region after ticking a few infrastructure and permitting boxes. The installation of a 65m tall telecommunications tower is complete, 10 per cent of its 240-bed accommodation village is operational and the company has received regulatory sign-off on its project management plan from WA’s Department of Mines and Petroleum.

ASX-listed aspiring Chile copper developer, Hot Chili, has been granted crucial water extraction rights for its overarching Costa Fuego porphyry copper-gold project located about 600km north of the country’s capital, Santiago. The company says the maritime concession, which was granted following an exhaustive seven-year application process, represents a critical infrastructure requirement for Costa Fuego by securing sufficient water supply to support a large-scale copper-gold operation.

Okapi Resources has narrowed its focus at Lake Johnson in WA, zeroing in on the Mount Day gold prospect. The company has amended its previously announced farm-in agreement with Lithium Australia, electing to concentrate on the Mount Day tenure, which hosts a 10km long surface geochemical anomaly and has produced rock chips of up to 10.68 grams per tonne gold.

ASX-listed explorer, Venus Metals Corporation, says it has picked up a couple of early polymetallic sniffs at its Bridgetown East nickel-copper-PGE project in WA’s south-west region as the company looks to emulate the feats of Chalice Mining following its exciting Gonneville nickel-copper-PGE discovery at the Julimar project further north.

ASX-listed explorer, Godolphin Resources, has encountered further hints of a gold-copper porphyry-style mineralised system at its Turrawonga discovery within the company’s Copper Hill East project 35km north of Orange in NSW’s Lachlan Fold Belt. It recently completed a couple of new deep infill drill holes at Turrawonga after an initial two holes returned 32m at 0.29 g/t gold and 0.13 per cent copper from 210m.

Western Australia-based gold miner Troy Resources, which has become a South American specialist, is now stepping up both production and exploration at its exciting frontier site Guyana. Having navigated various recent obstacles ASX-listed Troy Resources is now setting a course to rebuild mill production and its broad exploration program at its Karouni gold project in Guyana.

ASX-listed gold explorer, Great Southern Mining, has received $109,000 as part of a total $136,000 grant under the WA Government’s 2020 Exploration Incentive Scheme. The money was approved for the company’s drilling work at its Cox’s Find gold project about 80 kilometres north of Laverton in WA.

88 Energy has sealed the deal in Alaska, farming-out the company’s wholly owned Project Peregrine on the lucrative North Slope oil field. Under the terms of the farm-out agreement, Alaska Peregrine Development Company can earn a 50 per cent holding in the project by spending US$11.3 million towards the cost of the planned Merlin-1 well.

Kairos Minerals is continuing to work the drill bit in the WA’s Pilbara Goldfields, with the company’s rig rolling on to the Mt York project where it will kick into development drilling. The company has designed fourteen drill holes across the Old Faithful gold deposit, with the drill rig set to smash out the program in the lead up to Christmas.

ASX-listed gold developer, Calidus Resources, has struck a farm-in deal allowing it to earn up to 75 per cent of a greenfields gold project, which sits immediately along strike from the high-grade Blue Spec gold project and about 75km from its flagship, under-construction Warrawoona gold mining and processing operation in WA.

Latin Resources continues to build its portfolio of projects in Australia, having landed a new lease in NSW’s prolific Lachlan Fold Belt. The new Burdett project lies immediately to the south of the company’s recently acquired Manildra tenure, delivering Latin a strategic position over the historic Burdett goldfield.

St George Mining looks to be making a solid run into the new year, with recently completed down-hole geophysics lighting up like a Christmas tree identifying eleven new nickel targets for drill testing in WA. This latest assortment of targets is clustered at the western end of the company’s Mt Alexander discovery suggesting the nickel-bearing ultramafic horizon extends beyond the recognised boundaries of the mineralised system.

ASX and London-listed precious and base metals hopeful, Adriatic Metals, has discovered gold mineralisation at depth in the course of peeling off more cracking high-grade base metals drill hits at its recently acquired brownfields Raska polymetallic project in Serbia. The newly discovered gold-bearing vein zone at the Sastavci prospect returned an assay of 31m grading 1.3 grams per tonne gold from 279m including 1m at 13.6 g/t.

Terrain Minerals has more than tripled the size of its ground holding at the Smokebush gold project in WA. The company has pegged a new exploration licence which covers approximately 26 square kilometres, linking its two existing ground holdings in the region and picking up the high-grade Paradise City prospect, where historical surface sampling returned rock chips grading over 38 grams per tonne gold.

On the back of a recent $17.8m raising which welcomed new overseas institutions to the register, ASX-listed Blackstone Minerals has listed its stock on the USA-based OTCQB market. After tabling healthy scoping study numbers for its flagship Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGMs project west of Hanoi in Vietnam, Blackstone is looking to bolster investor support from both North American individuals and institutions.

ASX-listed aspiring gold producer, Calidus Resources, has extended the strike length of known gold mineralisation at its Coronation satellite deposit only 8km from the company’s developing Warrawoona gold project in WA’s East Pilbara following encouraging near-surface drill results. Better intersections from its recent 29-hole round of RC drilling at Warrawoona were 14m going 3.77 g/t gold from 52m and 3m at 4.00 g/t from 54m.

Lithium Australia has successfully developed a new lithium-ion cell by introducing manganese into its lithium ferro-phosphate battery technology which results in a 25 per cent energy density increase and subsequent output. According to the company, the addition of manganese gives the energy output density a boost without compromising the batteries superior attributes.

ASX-listed budding manganese producer, Element 25, has come out with even more “compelling” financial metrics for its developing Butcherbird mine 130km south of Newman in WA’s southern Pilbara region after the company completed a fine-tuning of the project’s pre-feasibility study. The revised base-case net present value and internal rate of return for the project now stand at $583 million before tax and 387 per cent, respectively.

ASX-listed explorer, Impact Minerals, has returned high-grade, near-surface platinum group elements and base metals drill results from the Plat Central prospect at its Broken Hill project in NSW. The stand-out intercept was 1m going a scintillating 22.7 grams per tonne 7PGE, 3.3 per cent nickel, one per cent copper, 23 g/t silver and 755 g/t cobalt from 62m.

Native Mineral Resources has stocked up its tucker bag, landing the Arcoona gold project in the Eastern Goldfields of WA, next door to the revered Carosue Dam gold mine. The new acquisition covers 170 square kilometres of prospective ground just 4km to the west of Saracen’s multi-million-ounce operation where Native Minerals is targeting rich intrusive-related gold mineralisation.

Hot Chili has shaken the tin and come away an impressive $25.6 million, completing a placement to fund an accelerated development program in Chile and maintain its wholly owned position in the massive Costa Fuego project. The company will use the proceeds of the raising to fund the second US$10 million instalment payment for the purchase of Cortadera and to accelerate its drilling across the project area.

ASX and London-listed aspiring Balkans polymetallic project developer, Adriatic Metals, has nailed down a US$20 million capital raise from the private placement of 8.5 per cent unsecured convertible debentures to TSX-V-listed Queen's Road Capital Investment. Adriatic says Queen’s Road, a resources-focused investment group, is backed by a number of significant investors including Australian entrepreneurs Andrew Forrest and Jack Cowin.

ASX-listed gold explorer, Anglo Australian Resources, has added a second RC drill rig to its exploration program chasing extensions to the known mineralisation at its 100 per cent-owned, historic Mandilla gold project, 70km south of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. In a rush to firm up some fresh gold resource numbers, Anglo has the drill rods spinning in tandem at both the Mandilla East and South targets.

Calidus Resources has bought out the royalty attached to the tenements covering most of the ore reserves at its developing Warrawoona gold project in WA’s East Pilbara region. The company will issue 4 million Calidus shares to the vendors and says removing the net smelter return royalty tied to the project will free up more cash flow during the early years of gold production at Warrawoona.

Legend Mining has ended its 2020 field season in dramatic style with its latest drill hole at the Mawson nickel discovery in WA intersecting a total of 43.1m of massive sulphides, including one continuous intercept of 31.1m. The company’s ongoing, almost uninterrupted recent success at Mawson hints that exploration has perhaps only scratched the surface of the discovery.

Buru Energy is debt free and set to bank $1.8m from its last crude oil sale for the calendar year as production at the Ungani oil field in WA’s Canning Basin continues at around 1,000 barrels per day. The shipment of crude is bound for a refinery in SE Asia from the export port of Wyndham in the State’s top end.

ASX-listed Impact Minerals has added another feather to its exploration hat acquiring the Beau permit, located just 15km north of Impacts existing Arkun project approximately 100km east of Perth in WA’s emergent South West Mineral Field. The region has been an area of increasing interest for explorers in the aftermath of the stunning nickel-platinum group elements discovery at Julimar.

ASX-listed Podium Minerals has revealed a significant metals inventory lift at its Parks Reef PGM project in the heartland of the Murchison province of WA. The company unveiled an increase of 22 per cent in its three elements of platinum group metals to 1.39 million ounces and an impressive 44 per cent increase in the overall copper content to 53,900 tonnes.

ASX-listed gold and base metals player, White Cliff Minerals, has upsized its maiden RC drilling campaign at the historic Reedy South gold project in WA’s Murchison Goldfields after managing to lay its hands on a larger second drill rig. The Perth-based company intends expanding the current Reedy South drill program from 3,000m to approximately 4,500m.

Surefire Resources’ share price vaulted more than 50 per cent higher in opening trades on Monday following news the gold explorer had hit a bounty of broad gold intercepts in the Murchison Goldfields of WA. The company’s maiden drilling program over the Yidby Road prospect returned mineralised intercepts up to 56 metres wide including a stunning 40m at 3.01 grams per tonne gold.