Bulls N' Bears (Commercial Content)

ASX-listed Victory Mines is off to a flying start at its Coogee gold project in Western Australia, with initial drill results from its maiden program over the prospect returning a bevy of high-grade gold hits including an eye-catching 8m at 13.53 g/t from 92m and 2m at 13.82 g/t gold from 102m down-hole.

ASX-listed gold explorer, Great Southern Mining, is ready to fire up the RC drill rig again at its historic Cox’s Find gold project near Laverton in WA. The company is chasing extensions of the high-grade Cox’s Find gold deposit to the south of the old workings at depth where recent drill intersections point to the possible reorientation of the orebody geometry.

Lithium Australia has recorded positive plant uptake of micronutrients in controlled field tests for its spent alkaline battery waste fertiliser blends by Western Australia’s broadacre pastoralists. The company’s 90 per cent-owned subsidiary, Envirostream Australia is incorporating slow-release zinc and manganese into conventional mono-ammonium phosphate fertilisers used in WA’s Wheatbelt.

88 Energy has lifted the lid on a mind-blowing resource upgrade at its 75 per cent-owned Icewine oil development project in Alaska. At the same time as sifting through a pile of offers to select a preferred bidder for the farm-out of its nearby Peregrine oil project on the Alaskan North Slope. The Perth-based oiler is set to partner-up to drill one of Peregrine’s oil prospects, sitting south of the giant Willow oil field, operated by US oil major, ConocoPhillips.

ASX-listed high purity alumina hopeful, Altech Chemicals, has linked up with an international silicon powder supplier to collaborate on the development of a long-life silicon anode active material targeted for use in lithium-ion batteries. Spain-based Silicio FerroSolar, part of the global Ferroglobe group, produces high purity-grade silicon found in a growing list of applications and is developing tailor-made silicon powders for the anode of lithium-ion batteries.

Infinity Lithium has landed a recruitment coup helping advance the company another crucial step in its path towards production by appointing prominent local businessman and former Spanish politician, Mr Cayetano Polo as the company’s Head of Institutional Relations in Spain. Mr Polo has a strong background in regional and local government in the Extremadura region, which hosts the company’s developing lithium operation.

Horizon Minerals has returned a clutch of encouraging near-surface drill hits from one of a key quartet of satellite deposits underpinning its developing Boorara gold project 10km east of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Notable results from the latest drilling comprising 29 RC holes totalling 899m to a depth of 65m were 3m going 6.63 grams per tonne gold from 10m, 5m at 4.79 g/t from 4m, and 6m at 2.73 g/t from surface.

Mako Gold has taken significant strides towards delivering a maiden mineral resource estimate for its joint-ventured flagship Napie gold project in Cote d’Ivoire in the first half of next year following yet another clutch of encouraging high-grade and broad gold drill hits at the Tchaga prospect. One of the more notable assays was 10.26m grading 4.76 g/t gold from 76.5m including 1m at 32.49 g/t or more than one ounce to the tonne.

Legend Mining continues to deliver wide intercepts of nickel sulphide mineralisation at its Mawson discovery in WA’s venerated Fraser Range. Assaying of the massive sulphide intercept from drill hole RKDD023 returned an imposing 24.7m at 1.35 per cent nickel and 0.77 per cent copper. The results seemingly confirm the company’s visual estimates from the logging of the drill core as exploration continues across the prospect area.

White Cliff Minerals is poised to almost double its footprint around the historic Reedy South gold project in WA’s Murchison goldfields, picking up the adjacent Cracker Jack gold project in the process. Cracker Jack adjoins the company’s existing Reedy South tenements and has been the subject of historical drilling. It has also applied for a nearby exploration licence that, if granted, will expand the overall Reedy South project area to 272sqkm.

TSX-V-listed aspiring Pilbara gold producer, Novo Resources, has unearthed a new gold-bearing conglomerate reef discovery at its developing Beatons Creek gold project adjacent to Nullagine in the East Pilbara following a mapping and surface rock chip sampling program. The Vancouver-based company says the Skyfall prospect is situated about 2km south-west of the existing 900,000-ounce Beatons Creek conglomerate-hosted gold resource.

Barton Gold is planning a rapid return to drilling at Tarcoola in South Australia with recent exploration delivering a bounty of high-grade intercepts begging to be followed up. The company’s ongoing drilling program has begun to delineate the western extensions of the Perseverance orebody, whilst drilling below the open pit has been returning intervals grading at more than an ounce per tonne gold.

ASX-listed Canada-focused gold explorer, Ardiden, has sniffed out encouraging high-grade gold hits from a diamond drill program designed to probe deeper into the Kasagiminnis deposit at its Pickle Lake gold project in north-west Ontario. According to the Perth-based company, drilling results continue to demonstrate extensions to gold mineralisation and gold grades strengthening at depth.

ASX-listed Australian Bauxite has taken a significant step towards the eventual shipping of “metallurgical-grade” bauxite having lodged a mining lease application for its Sunrise bauxite project 115km south-west of the Port of Bundaberg in Queensland. The application covers the proposed $15 million development of Sunrise that incorporates the high-quality gibbsite-rich trihydrate Binjour bauxite deposit.

Wiluna Mining Corporation has posted a bumper resource upgrade with the company’s ongoing drilling campaign having now defined a colossal global resource of more than 8 million ounces of gold. This wealth of mineralisation extends over the entire Wiluna field, from the Matilda deposits in the south through to Galaxy in the north and also hosts a higher-grade core of mineralisation that tips the scales at an impressive 4.24 million ounces, averaging 4.89 g/t gold.

Terrain Minerals has the ball rolling again with a rig on the ground drilling at its Wild-viper project in Western Australia. The company has locked in plans for more than 2,500m of aircore at the gold project, which is designed to follow up on results from its August 2020 drilling program and to test several new zones of mineralisation.

Oakdale Resources has revealed some tantalising results from its maiden drill program in Nevada with the first diamond drill hole at its Lambarson Canyon gold project intersecting primary epithermal gold mineralisation below 243.54m down-hole.

Barton Gold has upped the ante in South Australia as it charges towards a listing on the ASX, this week appointing both brokers and advisors to oversee its Initial Public Offering. The company is also moving its gold focused exploration program across the Gawler Craton into high gear, working across its three project areas in SA and expanding its resource inventory as it tightens up development plans for 2021.

King River Resources is vectoring in on high-grade gold prospects in the Northern Territory after uncovering buried ironstone host bodies in two drill holes on its ground. The holding, east of Tennant Creek, has produced anomalous assay results pointing to iron oxide-copper-gold indicators. The discoveries are coincident with gravity and magnetic anomalies which typically signal copper-gold-rich mineralisation in the region.

Great Southern Mining is eyeing an RC drilling program next year over newly-applied-for tenements near Laverton in WA immediately adjacent to its Cox’s Find gold project. It says the 47.5sqkm tenement package covers more than 12km of “highly prospective” identifiable mineralised trends hosting both the Garden Well and Rosemont gold deposits currently owned and operated by gold producer Regis Resources.

Estrella Resources looks to have hit paydirt at the T5 nickel discovery near Carr Boyd Rocks in WA posting an assay intercept of 2.5m at an eye-catching 3.66 per cent nickel. This strike confirms the presence of high-grade nickel at the prospect and clears the way for an extended program across the emerging discovery north of Kalgoorlie.

Barton Gold has locked away a permit-wide heritage agreement allowing the company to chase after gold in its ‘game-changing’ channel prospect, covering a 3.5-kilometre strike length of the Tarcoola Ranges in SA. The mega-rich Gawler Craton mineral field contains numerous geological, geophysical and geochemical targets with multiple historical, high-grade gold workings including Barton’s own Perseverance open pit.

Neometals has successfully demonstrated its proprietary vanadium recovery flowsheet in a continuous mini-pilot test program, yielding exceptional product purity better than 99.5 per cent vanadium oxide and vanadium recoveries of more than 75 per cent. The company said its ‘leach residence’ times were 50 per cent below its scoping study design parameters, providing a positive future impact on capital costs.

Budding gold producer, ASX-listed Horizon Minerals, reported further high-grade gold hits at the Crake and Coote projects within its 100 per cent-owned Binduli project, located west of Kalgoorlie. The strikes included a shallow high-grade hit at Crake of 3m at 14.85 g/t gold from only 9m below surface, within a thick 12m interval going 6.68 g/t gold from just 6m.

ASX-listed Blue Star Helium continues to build out its strategic land bank in the USA that surrounds the historic Model Dome helium gas field which once produced helium at good rates with awesome yields. Blue Star has increased its net acreage holding to 120,000 acres, recently adding 12,557 net acres, mostly within its highly ranked Galileo prospect, due west of Model Dome.

Calidus Resources has stepped up its exploration program in the Pilbara, completing first pass drilling over the Otways copper prospect near Nullagine in WA. Reconnaissance drilling has confirmed the results of previous work, delineating wide intercepts of near-surface copper mineralisation including an impressive 40m at 0.70 per cent copper, hosting 10m at 1.64 per cent copper, from surface.

Primobius GnbH, a joint venture company owned by ASX-listed urban metals player Neometals and its 50 per cent partner, German industrial giant, SMS Group GmbH, has signed an MoU with European battery producer InoBat j.s.a. The intended JV plans to investigate the business case for sustainable recycling of lithium-ion batteries, InoBat production scrap and other, third-party feedstock in Central/Eastern Europe.

ASX-listed gold and base metals explorer, White Cliff Minerals, has completed an extensive geochemical soil sampling program at its Midas copper-gold project in the coveted Paterson Province of WA. Just over 500 samples were gathered across five of seven priority target areas previously identified by the Perth-based junior, with pending assay results expected to help form the basis of a maiden drilling program at the project.

ASX-listed medical technology company, Proteomics International Laboratories’ coffers have been further boosted by a $1.1 million research and development tax rebate following a recent successful capital raise of $6 million. The Perth-based company, known for its predictive diagnostic tests, now has approximately $8.5 million in cash reserves including the funds from the share placement and the rebate of $1.13 million from the Australian Taxation Office.

Victory Mines has completed the purchase of the Coogee gold project with the company expediting the terms of its farm-in agreement through a share purchase agreement. The company will issue the current holders of the project, Ramelius Resources, $1 million in shares to deliver full ownership to Victory Mines.

A potentially lucrative base metals joint venture project between Classic Minerals and Independence Group in the revered Fraser Range nickel province of WA has been quietly bubbling away at the same time as the ASX-listed junior explorer looks to develop its flagship Kat Gap gold project about 170km south of Southern Cross.

Gawler Craton stalwart and former managing director of neighbour, Marmota Limited, David Williams, has bolstered the Board of Indiana Resources. Williams joins as a non-executive director, just a month after Indiana locked away a deal for around 2,700 square kilometres of fresh gold ground in South Australia from private player, Patron Resources, also led by Williams.