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Ardea identifies multiple nickel sulphide targets within its WA tenements

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Ardea Resources Limited (ASX:ARL) has identified high priority nickel sulphide targets at its Emu Lake Prospect, along with several nickel-copper sulphide and PGE targets elsewhere in its extensive Eastern Goldfields ground holding. The Emu Lake Project, located 70km north-east of Kalgoorlie has been the subject of a recent detailed review by Newexco Exploration Consultants who […]

Bentley Systems Announces Finalists in the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards Program

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Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, have announced the finalists in the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards program. The annual awards program honours the extraordinary work of Bentley software users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the […]

Suvo receives access for White Knight Kaolin Project drilling campaign

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Suvo Strategic Minerals Limited (ASX:SUV) has executed a mining access agreement to obtain access to the tenement that contains its White Knight Kaolin Project in Gabbin, Western Australia. The agreement will allow Suvo to commence a new drilling campaign at the 100%-owned project which has a maiden Inferred JORC Resource of 31.5mt of bright white […]

Emu eyes off suite of WA mineral opportunities

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Former Chilean mining specialist Emu NL (ASX: EMU) has transitioned into a WA-focused precious/base metals explorer and aspiring gold producer with a number of project acquisitions. Emu has acquired the: The historic Gnows Nest Gold Project near Yalgoo. The prospective nickel-copper -platinum group element Sunfire Project near Bridgetown. The Ni-Cu -PGE prospective Graceland Project near […]

FEL hires experienced iron ore executive to lead new iron play

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Fe Limited (ASX: FEL) has secured the services of experienced iron ore executive Jeremy Sinclair as Projects Director to drive the company’s recently announced iron ore asset acquisitions forward into production. Mr Sinclair is a mining engineer, with 25 years experience across a variety of commodities, including more than 10 years at Atlas Iron during […]

Piedmont signs spodumene concentrate supply deal with Tesla

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Piedmont Lithium (ASX: PLL) has signed a binding sales agreement to supply electric vehicle and energy storage specialist Tesla with its proposed spodumene concentrate product from its North Carolina project. The deal is initially for five years on a fixed-price basis and can be extended a further five years by mutual agreement. Piedmont President and […]

De Grey achieves strong Brolga infill and extension results at Hemi

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De Grey Mining Limited (ASX: DEG) has recorded remarkable consistency and a strong continuity of mineralisation between holes in its latest drilling campaign at the exciting Hemi Gold Discovery, near Port Hedland in Western Australia. The recent resource definition drilling has targeted initial infill to 40m along the existing 80m spaced sections to better define […]

Encounter with BHP In Northern Territory copper hunt

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Encounter Resources Ltd (ASX:ENR) has entered into an Option Agreement with global resources heavyweight BHP in relation to its Elliott prospect in Australia’s Northern Territory. The Option Agreement provides BHP with the right to enter an earn-in and joint venture agreement covering Elliott following the completion a jointly designed and funded validation programme. Encounter has […]

Focus on target with 60% increase to Karridale Gold resource to 1.19Moz

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West Australian gold explorer Focus Minerals (ASX: FML) has announced a significant Mineral Resource increase for the Karridale Gold Deposit to support the Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) into a Stage 1 mining operation at the Laverton Gold Project. CEO, Zhaoya Wang, said Karridale is a core asset of the company’s 100%-owned Laverton Gold Project, where Focus […]

Apollo building the big picture at Lake Rebecca Gold Project

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Recent resource definition and exploration activities at Apollo Consolidated Limited’s (ASX: AOP) Lake Rebecca Gold Projecteast of Kalgoorlie has provided the company with growing confidence in the existing 80,000ozInferred Mineral Resourceestimation for the Duke deposit. Step out diamond drilling exploration results have also have also extended the Laura structure more than 250m down dip and […]

Black Cat purring with high-grade gold hits at Fingals

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Black Cat Syndicate Limited (ASX:BC8) has hit a number of high-grade gold intersections in its ongoing RC drilling activities at the Majestic and Fingals Fortune prospects, both part of the Fingals Gold Project in Western Australia. The company said results from the first three holes at Imperial/Majestic deposits are encouraging with multiple gold zones in […]

Silver Lake gives Deflector South West go-aheads

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The Board of Silver Lake Resources Limited (SSX:SLR) has approved Deflector South West access, development and production, underpinning a longer life, higher margin operation and further enhancing the returns from the Deflector processing plant CIP upgrade in Western Australia. The Deflector South West lodes are located adjacent to the existing underground mine and have a […]

Hawkstone swoops on Idaho gold claims following positive sampling programme

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US-focused gold explorer Hawkstone Mining Limited (ASX:HWK) has moved quickly to expand its land holding in Idaho following recent promising exploration results. The 233% increase to its Idaho portfolio following the initial results from reconnaissance ground sampling at the Lone Pine and King Solomon Projects. The company has gone from 75 claims to 250 claims […]

Wiluna hits further high-grade gold as mining footprint continues to grow

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Wiluna Mining Corporation Limited (ASX:WMX) (formerly Blackham Resources) has reported continuing high-grade results from a further 41 holes and 9,925m of resource development infill drilling at the Wiluna Mining Centre in Western Australia. Executive Chairman, Milan Jerkovic, said these latest results span each of the high-priority development targets of Calvert, Essex, East Lode and Bulletin. […]

Titan Minerals increases its South American gold footprint

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Titan Minerals (ASX: TTM) announced this morning that it has been reinstated by the Ecuadorian Ministry of Mines as owner of the of the Jerusalén Concession (Jerusalem Gold Project).   The Jerusalem project is an excellent addition to TTM’s existing resource base. The new Project has an existing foreign resource estimation of 1.28Moz gold averaging […]

Sampling provides significant upside potential at Alta Zinc’s Gorno project

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Alta Zinc Limited (ASX: AZI) has significantly expanded the exploration footprint at the greater Gorno project in Italy with the results of sampling from new mineralised areas. Managing Director, Geraint Harris, said the results include recent sampling that was undertaken at Arera and extensions at Fontanone and the Zorzone resource areas, which have confirmed the […]

NTM continues to take Redcliffe Gold Project deeper

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NTM Gold Ltd’s (ASX: NTM) ongoing drilling campaign has further extended the Redcliffe Gold Project near Leonora in Western Australia. The latest diamond drill hole testing the mineralisation down plunge at the Hub deposit has increased the vertical continuity of the high-grade material, returning: 7.5m @ 8.1 g/t Au from 405.6m, including 4.4m @ 12.2 […]

Carawine and Fortescue add Eider licence to Paterson area JV agreement

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Carawine Resources Limited  (ASX:CWX) has entered and FMG Resources have into an amended agreement to include Carawine’s “Eider” tenement in the Coolbro JV in Western Australia. Eider is 35km southwest of Newcrest’s Telfer gold operations and 35km southeast of Metals X’s Nifty copper operations in the highly prospective Paterson province. Carawine Managing Director David Boyd […]

Venus on target with high-grade gold hits at Sovereign discovery

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Venus Metals Corporation Limited (ASX: VMX) and Joint Venture partner Rox Resources Limited (ASX: RXL) have achieved further positive results from their recent reverse circulation (RC) drilling at Sovereign Prospect in Western Australia. RC drilling followed up on previous AC and RC results and has extended the high‐grade gold mineralisation down dip. Best results include:8m […]

CRC ORE start-up hub joins Curtin’s Kalgoorlie campus

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A Western Australian start-up hub focused on mining research and innovation has officially become part of one of the world’s premier mining schools. The Kalgoorlie-Boulder Mining Innovation Hub, an initiative of the Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction (CRC ORE), this week transitioned to be part of Curtin University’s Western Australian School of Mines […]

World first MinEx scientific drilling programme set to reveal Australia’s mineral riches

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MinEx CRC has launched a world-first scientific drilling programme, the National Drilling Initiative (NDI), which will sample rocks from vast undercover and unexplored regions of Australia. The NDI will help the nation to understand the evolution of the continent, provide clues about where to search for new mineral deposits and bring forward the next generation […]

Ground Probe lands Australian Engineering Excellence Award for open pit monitoring system

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GroundProbe has taken out Queensland’s top award at the Australian Engineering Excellence Awards (AEEA), hosted by peak industry body Engineers Australia. The company received the award for its cutting-edge SSR-Omni technology. The SSR-Omni is the world’s leading Slope Stability Radar (SSR) technology for monitoring and detecting movement and potential collapses across open-cut mines and tailings […]

Mimecast Announces Endorsement Under Information Security Registered Assessors Program 

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Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME),  a leading security and cyber resilience company has announced its attestation under the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP), which provides the framework to endorse organisations from the private and public sectors to provide Commonwealth entities access to high-quality information and communications technology assessment services. “Mimecast has invested significant time and resources to deliver […]

Technology Metals delivers a 32% increase inGabanintha Vanadium Project’s Ore Reserves

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Technology Metals Australia Limited (ASX: TMT) has announced a significant update of the Gabanintha Vanadium Project in Western Australia’s Proven and Probable Ore Reserve estimate and increased the estimated Life of Mine to 22.5 years. Managing Director, Ian Prentice, saidthe 32% increase includes numbers from the recently upgraded Southern Tenement Mineral Resource estimate (MRE) of […]

Bryah commences 5,500m AC drilling programme

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Bryah Resources Limited (ASX: BYH) has kicked off a 5,500 metre aircore (AC) drilling programme at various prospects within the company’s Bryah Basin Project, located in central Western Australia. The programme, which is expected to take 2-3 weeks to complete, is aiming to: complete testing a large soil geochemical anomaly located at Windalah East, and […]

Avid Resources boosts management ranks

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Multi-disciplinary engineering and construction business Avid Resources has boosted its management ranks as it seeks to take advantage of an improving resources sector. The Perth-based company, which has more than 175 staff and is a member of AvidSys Group, has recently made two strategic hires and an international promotion. Highly experienced mining engineer Deependra Bhardwaj […]

Cardinal directors accept Shandong Gold takeover offer

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The directors of West African gold‐focused exploration and development company Cardinal Resources Limited (ASX/TSX: CDV) have agreed to accept the takeover offer of China’s Shandong Gold Mining (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. The Cardinal directors, who collectively hold approximately 6.07% of the company’s ordinary shares have each instructed their broker / controlling participant to initiate acceptance […]

Carawine looking to make a Big Bang in Fraser Range

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Carawine Resources Limited (ASX:CWX) has identified several new nickel and gold targets at its 100%-owned Big Bang tenement (E28/2759) in the Fraser Range region of Western Australia. Big Bang is located in the highly prospective Central Fraser Zone, bordering tenements with recent gold and nickel-copper discoveries by IGO Ltd and Galileo Mining Ltd respectively, and […]

ASM scores magnet rare earth metal breakthrough

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Australian Strategic Materials (ASX: ASM) and partner Ziron Technology Corporation have successfully produced high purity dysprosium (Dy) permanent magnet rare earth metal in the Ziron Tech facility in South Korea. Managing Director, David Woodall said this work using the ASM metallisation process has confirmed the company’s ability to produce the key permanent magnet metals (dysprosium, […]

Castillo Copper identifies gold and high-grade copper mineralisation at Big One

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Castillo Copper Limited (ASX: CCZ) has verified high-grade copper and sited gold following detailed field analysis at site and on the 24 rock-chip samples collected from historic workings at the Big One Deposit, within the Mt Oxide Project in Queensland. Managing Director, Simon Paull, said the company’s geology team performed detailed field analysis on the […]

Los Cerros rockets on high grade gold intercept

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The richly gold-copper endowed Mid-Cauca porphyry belt in Colombia hosts numerous multi-million-ounce gold discoveries and attracted the world’s three largest gold producers — Newmont Gold Corp., Barrick Gold Corp., and AngloGold Ashanti. Also drawn to the richly gold-copper endowed region is ASX-listed junior Los Cerros (ASX: LCL) which has a dominant position within the belt’s […]

MRC kicks of new mining phase at Tormin in South Africa

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Mineral Commodities Ltd (ASX:MRC) and its empowerment partner have commenced Total Heavy Mineralsmining at the Western Strandline, adjacent to their existing Tormin mining operations in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Executive Chairman, Mark Causo, said conventional open pit mining is now underway, accessing mineralisation from near surface with excavators and articulated dump trucks, […]

Rox and Venus hit high-grade gold in Youanmi Project JV area

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Rox Resources Limited (ASX: RXL) and Joint Venture partner Venus Metals Corporation Limited (ASX: VMC) have intersected high‐grade gold mineralisation in recent reverse circulation (RC) and aircore (AC) drilling at Taylor’s Reef Prospect, part of the Youanmi Project JV in Western Australia. The Taylor’s Reef Prospect is a new unworked zone within the Currans Find […]

Suvo expands White Knight Kaolin Project by 37,863 hectares

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West Australian kaolin and silica sand exploration company, Suvo Strategic Minerals Limited (ASX:SUV) has significantly extended its exploration tenure at its flagship White Knight Kaolin Project located 210km northeast of Perth. The company has been notified today by the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) of the granting of exploration licences E70/5332 and […]

Great Northern hits high-grade gold at Camel Creek

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Great Northern Minerals Limited (ASX:GNM) has confirmed gold was intersected in every hole in its maiden Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling programme at the Camel Creek Gold Project in Northern Queensland.   Managing Director, Cameron McLean, saidfinal one metre sample results from the 18 hole RC programme has established strike continuity over 700 metres at Camel […]

Galileo hits significant nickel copper sulphide mineralisation in Fraser Range

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Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX: GAL) has intersected significant sulphide mineralisation in diamond drill holes LARC008D and LARC013D at the company’s Lantern Prospect in the Fraser Range Nickel Belt of Western Australia. Managing Director, Brad Underwood, said the occurrence of pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite-pentlandite sulphides within prospective ultramafic and gabbronorite host rocks demonstrates the presence of the mineralising processes […]

Pacifico kicks of Sorby Hills DFS drilling campaign

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Pacifico Minerals Limited (ASX: PMY) has commenced a new drilling campaign at its 75% owned Sorby Hills Lead-Silver-Zinc Project in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Managing Director, Simon Noon, said the current drilling programme supports the advancement of the Project toward a Definitive Feasibility Study (DFS) while simultaneously exploring opportunities to expand the Resource. […]

FYI signs High Purity Alumina Development MoU with Alcoa

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FYI Resources Ltd (ASX: FYI) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with leading alumina producer, Alcoa of Australia Limited, for the potential strategic development of FYI’s high purity alumina (HPA) refining technologies. The MoU will explore the possibility of the joint development of FYI’s innovative and fully integrated HPA refining project for commercialisation, as […]

Gateway opens the door at Kashmir with significant shallow high-grade gold hits

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Gateway Mining Limited (ASX: GML) has intersected significant high-grade gold mineralisation at shallow depths in its maiden Reverse Circulation (RC) drill programme at the Kashmir prospect, part of its 100%-owned Gidgee Gold Project in Western Australia. Managing Director, Peter Langworthy, said grades of up to 8.8g/t Au have been returned, providing an outstanding target for […]

Ardiden takes to the air with new survey at Pickle Lake Gold Project

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Ardiden Limited (ASX: ADV) has commenced an Airborne Geophysical Survey at the Pickle Lake Gold Project in Canada. The company has engaged geophysics specialist, TerraQuest, to conduct a detail High-Resolution Aeromagnetic survey over the company’s New Patricia Gold Property – an exciting Brownfields opportunity directly along strike of the Golden Patricia Gold Mine. Managing Director, […]

Fenix gives FID thumbs up on high-grade Iron Ridge development

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Fenix Resources Limited (ASX: FEX) has made a positive Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Iron Ridge high-grade iron ore project located near Cue, Western Australia. Managing Director, Rob Brierley, said that following the positive FID decision and settlement of the first tranche of $10 million of the company’s proposed $15 million capital raising, Fenix […]

Classic identifies significant gold anomaly at Kat Gap

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Auger drilling at Classic Minerals Limited’s (ASX. CLZ) Kat Gap project has delivered a substantial gold anomaly within the company’s its Forrestania Gold Project (FGP) in Western Australia. The company completed a total of 310 auger holes at the Kat Gap project with the new anomaly located in the granite west of the main granite- […]

FYI ultra-high purity alumina trial a real success

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FYI Resourced Ltd (ASX:FYI) has achieved ultra-high purity alumina of >99.99% from continuous calcination in its latest pilot plant trials in the USA. The recently completed Stage Two continuous trial production of high purity alumina (HPA) from the company’s pilot plant met FYI’s target grade expectations. Managing Director, Roland Hill, said that following the successful […]

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