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Kin lifts Cardinia Gold Mineral Resource Estimate to 1.15Moz

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Kin Mining NL (ASX: KIN) has announced a 22% increase in its updated Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for its Cardinia Gold Project (CGP), located near Leonora in Western Australia. The interim MRE of 28.2Mt @ 1.27g/t Au for 1.15Moz of contained gold includes the re-optimisation of all existing mineralisation models (with the exception of Hobby) […]

Pensana confirms high-grade rare earths at Coola

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Pensana Rare Earths Plc (ASX: PM8) has identified high-grade rare earths in soils from the first sampling programmes completed at its 7,500 square kilometre Coola Project located 16 km north of its flagship Longonjo project in Angola. Assay results received from soil sampling over the Coola carbonatite have identifed a high tenor soil anomaly up […]

Trigg drills into wide Palaeovalley at Lake Throssell SOP

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Trigg Mining Limited (ASX: TMG) has confirmed a broad palaeovalley at least 1km wide and possibly up to 3-4km wide in places in its inaugural air-core drilling programme at the high-grade Lake Throssell Sulphate of Potash (SOP) Project, located 170km east of Laverton in Western Australia. The air-core programme, which commenced in late November, was […]

Queensland workwear designer teams up with BHP to redefine women’s high visibility maternity wear

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A redesign of women’s hi vis maternity wear between industry stalwarts BHP, Blackwoods and Co Gear has redefined industry standards of inclusion and diversity, at a time when industrial and trade businesses across Australia endeavour to increase the number of women taking on industrial and trade roles across a variety of industries. Despite a heavily […]

MinEx CRC successfully completes two drilling campaigns in the NT

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MinEx CRC has successfully completed its first National Drilling Initiative (NDI) campaigns, including a 1750m drill hole (known as NDI Carrara 1) at a location near the Northern Territory/Queensland border, approximately 250km north-west of Mount Isa. The NDI Carrara 1 hole was designed to capture geological and stratigraphic information from a previously unknown sedimentary basin, […]

Gateway opens door to resource growth potential with high-grade discovery at Montague

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Gateway Mining Limited (ASX: GML) has intersected multiple new stacked zones of high-grade gold mineralisation immediately beneath the existing 120,000oz Montague-Boulder Inferred Mineral Resource, within its 1,000 sq. km Gidgee Gold Project in Western Australia. The results are part of a Resource in-fill and extensional Reverse Circulation (RC) programme completed at this cornerstone deposit by […]

Perseus brings Yaouré Gold Mine into production five weeks ahead of schedule

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Perseus Mining Limited (ASX: PRU) has successfully completed the first pour of gold at its Yaouré Gold Mine in Côte d’Ivoire – nearly five weeks ahead of schedule. With construction of the Yaouré processing plant and associated infrastructure largely complete, Perseus will now focus on satisfying continuous performance tests and positioning to declare Commercial Production. […]

Encounter comes across emerging copper-gold system at Lamil Project

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Encounter Resources Ltd (ASX:ENR) has expanded the copper-gold footprint with results of 17 hole (3,200m) RC drill programme at the 100% owned Lamil Copper-Gold Project in the Paterson Province of Western Australia. Managing Director, Will Robinson, said a potentially significant copper-gold mineral system is emerging with multiple stacked copper-gold lodes and copper grades strengthening to […]

IDC MarketScape Names Zebra Technologies a Leader in Rugged Mobile Devices

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Company recognised in 2020 IDC MarketScape vendor assessment report Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the front line of business with solutions and partners that deliver a performance edge, has announced that it has been recognised as a Leader in the 2020 IDC MarketScape report for Rugged Mobile Devices*. The company was recognised […]

Red Mountain completes airborne radiometric survey at Mt Mansbridge

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Red Mountain Mining Limited (ASX:RMX) has successfully conducted a fixed wing airborne radiometric survey at its 100% owned Mt Mansbridge Heavy Rare Earth Project in Western Australia. Notwithstanding the current season, the circa 800km line survey was carried out under good weather conditions with constant elevation and an average altitude of circa 100 feet which […]

Castle reigns with successful expansion of Wanganui high-grade gold mineralisation

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Castle Minerals Limited (ASX: CDT) has extended Main Lode shallow high-grade mineralisation further south at the company’s Wanganui project in the Meekatharra gold mining district of Western Australia through recently completed 3172m, 48-hole multi-target RC programme. Drilling to test a magnetic low anomaly immediately south of the Main Lode South Pit returned 4m at 8.33g/t […]

Galileo looking to light up Lantern nickel prospects in early 2021

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Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX: GAL) is preparing to undertake RC drilling on priority nickel targets at the Lantern East and Lantern South prospects at its exciting Fraser Range project in Western Australia. Approximately 1,200 metres of RC drilling is planned to begin in February 2012 to test EM conductors at Lantern East and for deeper […]

Great Northern in a hurry at Big Rush with DD success

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Assays from Great Northern Minerals Limited’s (ASX: GNM) diamond drilling programme at the Big Rush Gold Project in Northern Queensland have confirmed gold mineralisation to a vertical depth of at least 200 metres. Managing Director, Cameron McLean, said the total recent diamond drilling at Big Rush comprised four HQ diamond holes for 1039.8 metres spread […]

WA introduces new rules to fast-track mine construction

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The Western Australian Government has introduced new rules aimed at fast-tracking mining projects to production.   Many large mining projects rely on infrastructure corridors to connect their mine to other processing sites or essential services. These corridors can stretch up to hundreds of kilometres, and are used to build haul roads, power lines, pipelines and conveyor […]

Regis gives go-ahead for Garden Well South underground mine development

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The Regis Resources Ltd (ASX:RRL) Board has approved development of a new underground mine under the current Garden Well open pit based on a recently completed positive Feasibility Study (FS) on the Garden Well South (GWS) underground gold (Au) Project in Western Australia. Managing Director, Jim Beyer, said the decision follows a positive Feasibility Study […]

QX identifies distinct gold anomaly at Ibis Prospect

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QX Resources Limited (ASX: QXR) has identified a 600m diameter gold in soil anomaly through a phase soil orientation survey at the Ibis prospect on its Mazeppa Extended tenement in the Clermont Goldfield of central Queensland. The company has completed infill soil sampling at the Ibis prospect, with a final 140 sample points adding to […]

Azure confirms high-grade nickel and copper at Andove

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Azure Minerals Limited (ASX: AZS) has intersected high-grade zones of nickel and copper sulphide mineralisation within massive sulphides at the Andover Ni-Cu Project in Western Australia. Managing Director, Tony Rovira, said the broad envelope of nickel-copper sulphide mineralisation returned an overall intersection of 41.9m @ 1.10% nickel and 0.57% copper, confirming the potential of this […]

Thor hits on significant magnetic targets at Ragged Range

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Dual-listed Thor Mining Plc (ASX/AIM:THR) has identified a number of significant magnetic targets following the interpretation, of the Airborne magnetics survey flown in October 2020, at the 100% owned Ragged Range Project in Western Australia. Priority targets to follow-up include: Sterling Prospect, identified as the principle initial target, is approximately five kilometres long and between […]

Musgrave encounters high-grade, near surface gold at Cue’s Target 17

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Musgrave Minerals Ltd (ASX:MGV) has fast-tracked follow-up drilling of a new high-grade, shallow find at its 100%-owned ground at its flagship Cue Gold Project in Western Australia’s Murchison district. Managing Director, Rob Waugh, said the high-grade intercept at Target 18 was amongst assay results for a further 97 aircore drill holes from the current regional […]

Genesis flying high with promising gold hits at Butterfly

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Genesis Minerals Limited (ASX: GMD) reports that ongoing Resource drilling at its Ulysses Gold Project in Western Australia is continuing to deliver outstanding results, confirming the strong potential to expand and upgrade existing Resources within the recently acquired Kookynie group of tenements. Managing Director, Michael Fowler, said the company has received further highly-encouraging results from […]

Krakatoa explodes into WA REE exploration with Mt Clere EL grant

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Krakatoa Resources Limited (ASX: KTA), best known as a gold explorer, has received granted tenure over the first of several previous exploration licence applications it has lodged over ground in Western Australia that it has identified as having Rare Earth Element (REE) potential. Chief Executive Officer, Mark Major, said the granting of the newly awarded […]

Suvo looking to build on world-class potential of White Knight Kaolin Project

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West Australian kaolin and silica sand exploration company, Suvo Strategic Minerals Limited (ASX:SUV) has commenced a stepped-out air-core drilling programme at its 100% owned White Knight Kaolin project 210km east of Perth. The drilling aims to increase the size of its maiden inferred JORC resource of 31.5mt of bright white kaolinised granite. The company’s resource […]

*Gascoyne hits high-grades in the shadow of Dalgaranga Gold processing facility *

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Gascoyne Resources Limited (ASX:GCY) has drilled a number of significant high-grade intersections in its resource extension activities at the Dalgaranga Gold Project in Western Australia. The company has received the first assay results from an approximately 4,000m RC drilling programme at Dalgaranga which commenced last month. Highlights include: Sly Fox 11m @ 15.7 g/t Au […]

Black Cat continues its good “Fortune” at Fingals

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Drilling results continue to build Black Cat Syndicate Limited’s (SXX:BC8) confidence in the open pit development potential of the Fingals Fortune prospect within its Kal East Gold Project in Western Australia. Black Cat is currently undertaking a large extensional and infill drilling program at Fingals Fortune to expand and upgrade JORC 2012 Mineral Resources. Managing […]

Calidus builds on Warrawoona production hub plans with strategic farm-in

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Calidus Resources Limited (ASX: CAI) has entered into a Farm-in Agreement with Gondwana Resources which gives Calidus the right to earn up to 75% of a highly promising exploration tenement (E46/1026) located 75km from its Warrawoona gold project in WA’s Pilbara Region. Calidus Managing Director, Dave Reeves, said the tenement is also located immediately along […]

Calidus extends known mineralisation at Coronation deposit

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Calidus Resources (ASX:CAI) has outlined over 800m of strike length of the known mineralisation at its Coronation deposit in the Pilbara region. Calidus Managing Director Dave Reeves said strong drilling results from the Coronation drilling campaign was part of the company’s two-pronged strategy of creating value through exploration at the same time as developing its […]

Musgrave hits high-grade Cue gold with scout drilling

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Musgrave Minerals Ltd’s (ASX: MGV) confidence it is on to a sizeable gold play has been boosted by results from a recent regional scout aircore drilling programme at the company’s flagship Cue Gold Project in Western Australia. Managing Director, Rob Waugh, said the results from the Lake Austin Joint Venture with Evolution Mining have strengthened […]

Rafaella unveils robust Santa Comba Tungsten and Tin Project PFS

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Rafaella Resources Limited (ASX:RFR) has received promising results in a detailed pre-feasibility study (PFS) for the Santa Comba Tungsten and Tin Project in Spain. Conducted in-house with the support of industry leading consultants, the PFS follows the recent drilling campaign that resulted in an upgraded Mineral Resource Estimate announced in July and the results of […]

Emmerson begins hunt for “bonanza” gold at Tennant Creek

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Emerson Resources (ASX: ERM) has commenced a drilling programme to follow up “bonanza” grades discovered at the Mauretania prospect located within the Northern Project Area (NPA) of the company’s Tennant Creek project in the Northern Territory. The first diamond drill hole of the approximate 1,300m programme is aimed at testing the grade and continuity of […]

Leading Australian Ski Resort Improves Guest Experience with Zebra Technologies

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Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the front line of business with solutions and partners that deliver a performance edge, has announced Mt Buller Ski Resort’s deployment of Zebra’s XSLATE B10 rugged tablets to improve the efficiency and accuracy of its ticketing validation process. Mt Buller is one of Australia’s most popular and […]

Sunstone hits “bonanza” silver grades in Ecuador

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Sunstone Metals Ltd (ASX: STM) has discovered a significant polymetallic silver- gold-zinc-lead epithermal system at the Espiritu target within its Bramaderos project in southern Ecuador. Assay results from the first five diamond drill holes at Espiritu contain bonanza silver grades within multiple silver-gold-zinc-lead vein and breccia intervals. Highlight intervals include 1.1m at 1069g/t silver, 0.2g/t […]

Navarre accelerates testing of Adventure Lode gold discovery in Victoria

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Navarre Minerals Limited’s (ASX: NML) has stepped up its exploration activities at its 100% owned Irvine Gold Project in Victoria’s rich central goldfields with the arrival of a third diamond drilling rig. The rig has commenced drilling at Adventure Lode, approximately four kilometres south of Resolution Lode where two diamond core rigs are actively deployed […]

Premium ASX Trading Platform Powers Investors

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A new ASX trading platform from Marketech Focus has been launched to put the tools used by institutional investors, such as real-time pricing data and low-fee trading, in the hands of everyday shareholders. The Marketech platform, which was born out of frustration at the current technologies available for retail traders, is positioned to offer significantly […]

VDM delivers maiden CdB copper mineral resource estimate

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VDM Group Limited (ASX: VMG) has taken a further step towards its objective of developing a portfolio of high-quality mineral assets with the announcement of a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the 55.25% owned Cachoeiras do Binga (CdB) Copper Project in Angola. The MRE was undertaken by SRK Consulting China Ltd following a 5,691m […]

Hannans joins Fraser Range nickel party

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Hannans Ltd (ASX: HNR) has signed an agreement to earn a 70% interest in granted exploration license E63/1772 located 100km east of Norseman, in the highly sort after Fraser Range area of Western Australia. Access to the tenement is excellent, with Highway 1 passing through the tenement. Fraser Range Homestead is also located within the […]

Ardea kicks off Emu Lake nickel hunt

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Ardea Resources Limited (ASX:ARL) has commenced a drilling campaign to test high priority conductor nickel sulphide drill targets at the Emu Lake Prospect, 70km north-east of Kalgoorlie. The Prospect contains a sequence of ultramafic flows with proven, Silver Swan/Kambalda-style basal flow nickel sulphide potential. Previous drilling intersected several thin massive nickel- sulphide horizons over 400m […]

Lake’s high purity lithium carbonate ready for battery metals testing

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Lake Resources NL(ASX:LKE) has confirmed the dispatch of the first samples of Lake’s high purity 99.97% lithium carbonate for the production of NMC622- based lithium-ion battery test cells. Produced from Kachi brines, the lithium carbonate has been dispatched by Lake’s technical partner Hazen Research Inc. to Novonix Battery Technology Solutions in Nova Scotia, Canada. Novonix […]

Native Mineral receives significant results at Leanes Copper Prospect

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Copper and gold exploration company Native Mineral Resources Holdings Limited (ASX: NMR) has received excellent initial results from its phase 1 reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling programme currently underway at the Leane’s Copper Prospect in North Queensland. Managing Director, Blake Cannavo, said the first hole has intersected porphyry veins at a depth of 90m […]

Bryah unveils VMS copper-gold target at Windalah

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Bryah Resources Limited (ASX:BYH) has identified the presence of a broad, high-tenor down hole multi- element geochemical anomaly associated with copper and gold with A/C drilling at Windalah East in Western Australia. The company has now completed a total 67 holes for 5,999m of AC drilling over four prospect areas. Drilling at the Windalah East […]

Drone technology used to target illegal fossicking in the Torrington State Conservation Area

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The NSW Resources Regulator has teamed up with the National Parks and Wildlife Service to target illegal fossicking in the Torrington State Conservation Area. Resources Regulator’s Director of Compliance Steve Orr said signs have been installed in the conservation area encouraging reporting of illegal fossicking, and drone technology will be used to detect the practice […]

Comet shining bright with discovery of extensive surface copper mineralisation at Barraba

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Comet Resources Ltd’s (ASX:CRL) confidence in the Barraba Copper Project located in the New England area of NSW has been buoyed with the visual observation of widespread copper mineralisation. The company’s Consultant Geologist and Project Manager, Mart Rampe, has now completed the initial site investigation of the historical high grade Murchison Copper Mine and the […]

Pure Minerals signs nickel offtake with Samsung SDI

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Pure Minerals Limited (ASX:PM1) has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Samsung SDI Co., Ltd for the supply of nickel from the TECH Project, 100% owned by its wholly owned subsidiary, Queensland Pacific Metals Pty Ltd (QPM). Under the MOU, Samsung SDI is seeking to purchase up to 6,000t per annum of […]

Antipa and Rio hit further significant high-grade intersections at Calibre

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Antipa Minerals Limited (ASX: AZY) reports that joint venture partner Rio Tinto has intersected significant precious metals mineralisation in the Citadel Joint Venture Project 2020 Exploration Programme in Western Australia’s highly prospective Paterson Province. Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Limited is managing the drilling programme which has hit sizeable widths of gold-copper±silver mineralisation, including substantial high-grade […]

CSIRO supports SMEs with new tech to drive industry resilience

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New automation technology that can help robots map dangerous environments such as underground mining tunnels without the use of GPS has been made available to Australian SMEs as part of a new program launched today by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. Known as Wildcat, the technology can help boost safety and productivity for companies in […]

ABB and Talga sign agreement for battery anode project

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Talga Group Ltd (ASX:TLG) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global technology leader ABB to support the development and construction of Talga’s Vittangi Anode Project in northern Sweden. Talga is constructing a scalable battery anode production facility and integrated graphite mining operation in northern Sweden, using 100% renewable electricity to supply ultra-low emission […]

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