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Alto identifies significant gold target within the Lords Corridor

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Alto Metals Limited (ASX: AME) has defined a number of significant IP anomalies in the Lords Corridor target at the Sandstone Gold Project in Western Australia. These new IP targets, defined from the results of a recently completed three-dimensional induced polarisation (3D IP) survey, are based on high chargeability zones, correlate with Alto’s geological targeting […]

Matrix lands technology development contract with Newcrest

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Matrix Composites & Engineering Ltd (ASX:MCE) has secured a contract with Newcrest Mining to develop a high-tech solution for its Cadia gold mine in New South Wales. Under the scope of the works, Matrix will utilise its expertise in advanced materials technology to develop a composite replacement for steel componentry within their block caving operations […]

Estrella goes deep with nickel sulphide success at Carr Boyd

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Estrella Resources Limited (ASX: ESR) has achieved instant success with the first diamond drill hole of the new year at the T5 target at its Carr Boyd nickel project in Western Australia. Hole CBDD0042A intersected a broad zone of nickel, copper and PGE mineralisation on the basal contact of the T5 target area, 300m below […]

2020 ends with a strong improvement in geoscientist employment

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Australia’s geoscientists benefitted from a sharp increase in employment opportunities in the final quarter of 2020 according to the latest AIG Australian geoscientist employment survey. Unemployment amongst professional geoscientists (geologists, geophysicists and allied Earth scientists) recommenced a downward trend after improvement in employment prospects stalled throughout the previous three quarters of the year. AIG President, […]

Musgrave off to a hot start at White Heat

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Musgrave Minerals Ltd (ASX: MGV) has intersected high-grade gold in the first four RC holes drilled at the newly discovered White Heat prospect on its 100% owned ground at its flagship Cue Gold Project in Western Australia’s Murchison district. Highlight intercepts include: 6m @ 15.3g/t Au from 38m; including 3m @ 28.8g/t Au from 38m […]

Matador has the bull by the horns with high grade hits at Cape Ray

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Matador Mining Limited (ASX: MZZ) has intersected impressive gold grades and widths in resource drilling at the Isle aux Morts prospect within in Cape Ray Gold Project located in Newfoundland, Canada. Cape Ray comprises 120 kilometres of continuous strike in the proven, yet under-explored multi-million ounce Cape Ray Shear gold corridor. Matador is the largest […]

RMIT signs MOU to help accelerate mining innovation

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The mining sector can now test and develop its innovation and technology at Australian university, RMIT. RMIT University has signed an agreement with Amira Global that will see it join an international network of forward-thinking organisations working collectively to solve major mining industry challenges. The Memorandum of Understanding between Amira Global and RMIT paves the […]

Hemi the gift that keeps on giving for DeGrey with two new discoveries drilled

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De Grey Mining Limited (ASX: DEG) has found two new mineralised intrusions at the world-class Hemi gold discovery, located approximately 60km south of Port Hedland in Western Australia. The new discoveries, Diucon and Eagle, are located immediately west of the Crow intrusion along the SW-NE trending structural corridor running from the Scooby to Antwerp discoveries. […]

Tungsten Mining’s Mt Mulgine PFS confirms commercial potential

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Tungsten Mining NL (ASX: TGN) has confirmed the technical and financial viability of its world class Mt Mulgine Tungsten Project in Western Australia with the release of Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) results and a maiden reserve. CEO, Craig Ferrier, said the PFS confirms large scale, long life, low-cost tungsten concentrate production in the Murchison region of […]

Saturn increases Apollo Hill gold resource to 944,000oz

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Saturn Metals Limited (ASX:STN) has completed an updated Mineral Resource estimate of 36 Mt at 0.8 g/t Au for 944,000 ounces for the Apollo Hill gold deposit at its 100%- owned Apollo Hill Gold Project near Leonora in the Western Australian Goldfields. Managing Director, Ian Bamborough, said this significant increase in contained ounces from the […]

Red River ramps up production at Hillgrove Gold Mine

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Red River Resources Limited (ASX: RVR) is ramping up activities at its Hillgrove Gold Mine in New South Wales after recommencing gold production at the site in December 2020. The company commenced processing operations at Hillgrove on December 28, 2020, with more than 7,000 tonnes of ore from the Bakers Creek Stockpile processed to date. […]

Ecograf’s WA battery graphite facility advancing to development

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EcoGraf Limited (ASX: EGR) has reported encouraging development progress across its vertically integrated ‘HF free’ graphite businesses. During the recent quarter the company submitted detailed development reports and engineering study information to Export Finance Australia as part of securing a US$35m (A$45m) project debt facility to underpin the new 20,000 tonnes per annum EcoGraf Battery […]

Diatreme eyes further silica sand resource expansion

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Emerging mineral and silica sands developer and explorer, Diatreme Resources Limited (ASX:DRX) is planning to explore two high priority silica sand areas near Cape Flattery, with the potential for further resource identification at the company’s Galalar Silica Project in North Queensland. Diatreme has identified large silica sand dune systems in the Cape Flattery area of […]

Chalice continues to grow exiting Julimar find

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Chalice Mining Limited (ASX: CHN) has reported significant new results from ongoing exploration activities which continue to expand its high-profile Julimar Nickel-Copper- Platinum Group Element (PGE) Project, located ~70km north-east of Perth in Western Australia. Six rigs (three Reverse Circulation (RC) and three diamond) are continuing the ~160,000m step-out and resource definition drill programme at […]

Maximus identifies priority drill target at Wattle Dam East

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Maximus Resources Limited (ASX:MXR) has confirmed a late-time conductor in prospective stratigraphic position though 14.5 line-km of Fixed Loop Electromagnetic (FLEM) Surveys at the Wattle Dam East Nickel target. Wattle Dam East is located within the company’s Spargoville tenements and located 25km from BHP’s Kambalda Nickel Concentrator in Western Australia. The significant conductor in the […]

Black Cat having plenty of luck at Rowe’s Find gold deposit

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Black Cat Syndicate Limited (ASX:BC8) has received further high-grade assay results from drilling activities at Rowe’s Find, part of the Kal East Gold Project in Western Australia. The first drilling at Rowe’s Find since 2012 was completed in December 2020 and all results have been returned. Most holes in the programme were extensional and outside […]

Predictive accelerating Bankan Gold drilling in Guinea

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Predictive Discovery Limited(ASX: PDI) is accelerating its drilling campaign at the Bankan Gold Project in Guinea with three RC- DD drill rigs active across the project area and a second Diamond Drill (DD) rig now in operation at the NE Bankan gold discovery. All three rigs are operating on double shift, targeting a maiden JORC […]

Good news continues to flow for Anova at Big Springs gold project

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Anova Metals Limited (ASX: AWV) has reported further outstanding assay results from the 2020 diamond drilling programme at its 100%-owned Big Springs Gold Project in Nevada, USA. Highlights from the latest holes includes 10.85m @ 3.96g/t from 87.33m, including 3.05m @ 6.16.5g/t from hoe ZBF-001. Managing Director, Dr Mingyan (Joe) Wang, said this high-grade interval […]

Hammer looking for further hits at Trafalgar copper-gold discovery

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Hammer Metals Ltd (ASX:HMX) has elected to fast-track follow-up drilling at its recent Trafalgar gold discovery within the Mount Isa East JOGMEC Joint Venture in Queensland. To take advantage of rig availability, the Joint Venture has approved an extension to the current drilling programme with additional holes to follow up the copper and gold discovery […]

Titan defines powerful targets at Copper Duke

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Titan Minerals Limited (ASX: TTM) has identified a range of exciting new targets from the results of surface geochemistry sampling and initial results for the aerial geophysical survey at the Copper Duke Project located in southern Ecuador, and 18km east of the company’s flagship Dynasty Gold Project. The new surface geochemistry reports from Copper Duke […]

Artemis on target at Carlow Castle with further outstanding drill results

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Artemis Resources Limited (ASX:ARV) has discovered an exciting new zone of mineralisation in its drill programmes currently underway at its 100%-owned Carlow Castle Gold Copper Cobalt Project in the west Pilbara region of Western Australia. Executive Director, Alastair Clayton, said the results continue to paint a promising picture at Carlow Castle. As evidenced by yet […]

Venture secures $10m in funding to finalise Riley Iron Ore Mine development

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Venture Minerals Limited (ASX:VMS*) *has received firm commitments from sophisticated, professional, and institutional investors to raise $10 million to fully funds development at the Riley Iron Ore Mine in northwest Tasmania. The new capital injection will allow the company to complete the final stages of the Wet Screening Plant construction and commissioning paving the way for […]

Eagle Mountain flying high at Oracle Ridge

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Eagle Mountain Mining Limited (ASX:EM2) has received high-grade copper assay results from its ongoing drilling programme at the company’s 80% owned Oracle Ridge Mine Project in Arizona, USA. Highlight hole WT-20-15 intersected 6.1m at 4.24% Cu, 36.16g/t Ag and 0.36g/t Au from 188.0m. Other significant assay results include: 2.0m at 2.45% Cu, 14.9g/t Ag and […]

Galileo returns to Fraser Range with exciting exploration programmes

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Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX: GAL) has commenced its 2021 exploration field programmes at the company’s Fraser Range nickel project in Western Australia. Managing Director, Brad Underwood, said geophysical survey teams are now undertaking electro-magnetic (EM) programmes aiming to define conductive anomalies associated with nickel sulphide mineralisation for drill testing. We are very pleased to be […]

MRC builds on strong Norwegian graphite position

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Mineral Commodities Ltd (ASX:MRC) has entered into a landowner agreement through its 90% owned subsidiary, Skaland Graphite AS to explore the Hesten and Vardfjellet graphite prospects, located on the island of Senja, Norway. The prospects are situated about four km west of the Bukken exploration prospect, for which Skaland was granted exploration rights in mid […]

GWR on target for imminent maiden C4 project iron ore shipment

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GWR Group Limited (ASX:GWR) is on target for its first iron ore shipment from its 100% owned flagship C4 Iron Ore deposit in Wiluna to head overseas by the end of the month Chairman Gary Lyons said high-grade lump and fines product from the C4 project are currently being stockpiled at the Port of Geraldton. […]

New World on top of the world with thick high-grade hits at Antler copper deposit

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New World Resources Limited (ASX: NWC) has achieved significant new high-grade drilling results from its flagship Antler Copper Projectin Arizona, USA. Managing Director, Michael Haynes, said the latest drilling success comes at a time when the company is continuing to ramp-up exploration and development activities at Antler. It’s exciting to start 2021 with some excellent […]

Venus hits high-grade gold at Range View prospect

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Venus Metals Corporation Limited (ASX:VMC) has confirmed the presence of high-grade gold at the Sandstone Gold Project in Western Australia with the results of a recent drilling programme. The drilling tested structurally controlled mineralisation at the Range View and Western Ridge Prospects where the best results included: 11m @ 4.69 g/t Aufrom 12m, Including 5m […]

Ausmex extends high-grade gold zone at Mt Freda

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Ausmex Mining Group (ASX:AMG) has received promising infill drilling results from its resource upgrade programme at the Mt Freda Project in Queensland. Mt Freda was a producing gold mine until 1990 and ceased operations when the gold price went below $380 in the late 1980’s. The mine is located approximately 60 km by road from […]

Calidus confident Klondyke infill success will lead to strong production

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Calidus Resources (ASX: CAI) has received robust assay results from infill drilling at the Klondyke deposit within its Warrawoona Gold Project in Western Australia. Managing Director, Dave Reeves, said drilling continues to intersect wide high- grade zones within the planned open pit. These results from the shallow lodes are well above the current Reserve grade […]

Kin defines strong zones of mineralisation at Axford prospect

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Kin Mining NL (ASX: KIN) has received significant new assay results from recent air- core (AC) drilling at the Axford prospect within the Iron King project in Western Australia. Iron King, located 45km north of Leonora, is a separate but potential satellite project to the company’s flagship 100%-owned Cardinia Gold Project (CGP). The drilling, together […]

RPM achieves maiden Strategic Design Optimiser (SDO) sale

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RPMGlobal Holdings Limited (ASX: RUL) has concluded the first sale of its new parametric design product following successful beta testing. RPM originally announced its intention to develop and release its new intelligent design solution to the market in March 2019 and at the conclusion of a long partnership with a Canadian mining customer, RPM’s beta […]

Titan Minerals returns to Ecuador to add to Dynasty Gold picture

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Titan Minerals Limited (ASX: TTM) has resumed drilling in the Papayal Prospect area as part of its major assessment of the Dynasty Gold Project in Ecuador. The company told shareholders that the two-week hiatus during the end of year holiday period has afforded the opportunity for teams to catch-up on a back log of work […]

Frontier identifies significant gold extensions in PNG

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Frontier Resources Limited (ASX:FNT) has significantly extended known gold mineralisation through a sampling and mapping programme at the Kimono and Kimono South prospects near the Tolukuma Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea. A total of 102 soil, 102 rock chip (51 float and 51 outcrop) and 205 chip‐channel trench samples were collected. The geological mapping, […]

Lux Research names Top 5 technologies disrupting the energy industry

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The rise of renewable energy and electric vehicles will lead to significant changes the energy system has not seen in more than a century – bringing both new challenges and new opportunities. Lux Research, a leading provider of tech-enabled research and advisory services, has released its annual report, “Foresight 2021: Top Emerging Technologies to Watch.”  […]

Estrella commences Carr Boyd nickel drilling campaign

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Estrella Resources Limited (ASX: ESR) has re-commenced diamond drilling activities at the Carr Boyd Nickel Project (CBNP), north-east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The programme will test at depth and along strike of the T5 nickel-copper discovery. CEO Chris Daws said the company plans to firstly commence diamond core hole CBDD042 located approximately 150m south […]

Legend says latest hole the best to date at Mawson

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Legend Mining Limited (ASX:LEG) reports that assay results from hole RKDD034 confirm it is the best hole to date at the Mawson Nickel-Copper-Cobalt Discovery within the Rockford project, Fraser Range Western Australia. Managing Director, Mark Wilson, said the combination of the widths and grades of the massive sulphides in this hole supportthe company’s conviction that […]

Tesoro continues to make its mark at El Zorro

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New assay results continue to expand the known gold mineralisation at the Ternera prospect at Tesoro Resources Limited’s (ASX:TSO) El Zorro Gold Project in Chile. Managing Director, Zeff Reeves, said all holes from the recently completed drilling programme at Ternera returned positive gold intercepts with hole ZDDH00075 confirming the continuity and scale of a new […]

PolarX moving to acquire Humboldt Range gold-silver project in Nevada

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PolarX Limited (ASX: PXX) has secured an option to acquire a Mining Lease Agreement over the highly prospective Humboldt Range Gold-Silver Project in Nevada, USA, which comprises 177 lode mining claims. The option gives PolarX a 120-day exclusive period to finalise technical and legal due diligence on the project. Humboldt Range is situated between two […]

Venture Minerals confirms significant gold system at Kulin

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Venture Minerals Limited (ASX:VMS) has received significant results from a recently completed trenching programme over some of the high order gold in soil anomalies at its Kulin project in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region. Trenching has delivered substantial mineralised intervals of 41 @ 0.8 g/t gold Au (including 31m at 1.0g/t Au) and 20m @ 0.6g/t […]

E2 Metals resumes drilling at Conserrat in Argentina

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E2 Metals (ASX:E2M) has resumed drilling at the Conserrat project following the Christmas and New Year break. Conserrat is located in the Santa Cruz Province of Argentina and is host to a new greenfields gold and silver discovery centred 25km along trend from AngloGold Ashanti’s Cerro Vanguardia mine (historical and current reserves 8.9Moz Au, 137Moz […]

New Australian Travel Planning Platform Set to Take Off!

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A unique, user-friendly new Australian travel planning website is being launched this month – that occurring to its founder “transcends all other travel sites and apps” – allowing the consumer to be in control and create personalised itineraries that replicate the quality of a travel agent – all for FREE! Traveloris – the new Australian […]

Elementos gathering momentum at Oropesa Tin Project

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Elementos Limited’s (ASX:ELT) is on target with its campaign to convert existing Inferred Resources into Indicated Resources at its flagship Oropesa Tin Project in Spain following confirmation that significant zones of mineralisation have been intersected at the project in early drilling. The company started 5000m of diamond drilling across 47 holes at Oropesa in early […]

European Metals powers up board with addition of high profile American Ambassador

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European Metals Holdings Limited (ASX:EMH) has boosted its global team with the appointment of American Ambassador Lincoln Palmer Bloomfield, Jr as a Non-Executive Director of the company. Ambassador Bloomfield is based in Washington, DC, and brings governance and regulatory experience, years of international diplomacy and security expertise to the EMH Board, along with a North […]

Bryah hits high-grade manganese at Horseshoe South

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Bryah Resources Limited (ASX:BYH) has intersected high-grade (>30% Mn) manganesein shallow drilling at the historic Horseshoe South Manganese Mine in Western Australia. The high-grade hits featured in the company’s final set of results from its latest reverse circulation (RC) drilling programme at its Bryah Basin Manganese Joint Venture project (70% Bryah/30% OM (Manganese) Limited, located […]

AVZ signs first lithium offtake agreement for Manono

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AVZ Minerals Limited (ASX:AVZ) has secured a strategic, long-term offtake partner with GFL International Co. Limited (GFL), a subsidiary of China’s largest lithium compounds producer, Ganfeng Lithium Co Ltd. AVZ’s Managing Director, Nigel Ferguson, said the company and GFL have signed an offtake agreement for an initial five year term and with an option to […]

Lucapa receives 113 carat Angolan diamond

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Lucapa Diamond Company Limited (ASX: LOM) and its partners Empresa Nacional de Diamantes E.P.and Rosas & Petalas have recovered the 17th 100 carat plus white diamond by Sociedade Mineria Do Lulo (SML) from its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. The 113 carat gem-quality white stone is the 1st 100 plus carat diamond recovered from Mining Block 46, […]

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