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Celsius hotting up with commencement of MCB copper gold project drilling in Philippines

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Celsius Resources Limited’s (ASX: CLA) Philippine subsidiary Makilala Mining has commenced drilling operations at the Maalinao- Caigutan-Biyog (MCB) copper-gold project on the main island of Luzon. The project is located in the Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines, approximately 320 km north of Manila, and holds a large, high-grade copper gold porphyry deposit. A maiden […]

Podium continues to extend Parks Reef with PGM and copper hits

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Podium Minerals Limited (ASX:POD) continues to extend Mineral Resources along the full 15km strike length of the company’s 100% owned Parks Reef PGM Project near Meekatharra in Western Australia. New drilling results from the eastern sector of Parks Reef, completed prior to the end of 2020, include platinum, palladium and gold assays from drill holes […]

Anova set to turn up the drill pressure at Big Springs following successful campaign

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Anova Metals Limited (ASX: AWV) is planning to undertake an aggressive drilling campaign at its 100%-owned Big Springs Gold Project in Nevada following the successful completion of its latest programme there. Managing Director, Dr Mingyan (Joe) Wang, said the receipt of assay results for the residual six diamond holes from the 2020 drilling programme at […]

Galileo turns its focus on Lantern East drilling at Fraser Range

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Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX: GAL) has commenced a key diamond core drilling campaign at the company’s Lantern East prospect within the Fraser Range Nickel Belt in Western Australia. Managing Director, Brad Underwood, said Lantern East represents a compelling nickel target with an EM anomaly occurring on the margin of a large intrusive rock unit. Modelling […]

Latin confirms high-grade halloysite and ultra-bright kaolin at Noombenberry

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Latin Resources Limited (ASX: LRS) has received high quality results from the initial batch of samples from air-core drilling at the company’s 100% owned Noombenberry Project near Merredin in Western Australia have been returned from the laboratory. Results from the first 100 samples submitted for test work have confirmed the project contains very- high grade […]

Miramar gets green light to kick-off exploration at Glandore in WA

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Newly listed Miramar Resources Limited (ASX:M2R*)* has received heritage approval for its 100% owned Glandore Project approximately 40km east of Kalgoorlie in the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. The approval allows Miramar to conduct its first exploration programmes on the Project since listing on the ASX. The proposed work programmes will include a gravity […]

Helix takes off with Cobar airborne geophysical survey

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A cashed up Helix Resources Limited (ASX:HLX) has commenced a regional scale, detailed airborne electromagnetic (EM) on its Cobar copper projects in NSW. A total programme of approximately 2,000 line-kilometres utilising the VTEM MAX system is being flown by UTS Geophysics (GeoTech) to cover the remaining 75% of Helix’s prospective copper corridors with no coverage. […]

Mamba prepares to strike at Darling Range with large VTEM survey

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Newly listed Mamba Exploration Limited (ASX:M24) has secured an Electro Magnetic (EM) survey crew to undertake the airborne geophysical survey over the Darling Range Project in Western Australia in mid-March. The Darling Range Project is located between Chalice Mining’s Julimar Discovery, east of Perth, and the recent strong EM conductor detected by Pursuit Minerals. The […]

North Stawell makes shallow, high-grade gold discovery at Wildwood in Victoria

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Victorian gold explorer North Stawell Minerals Ltd (ASX:NSM) has confirmed the discover of shallow, high-grade gold from preliminary drill results from its Wildwood drill programme north of Stawell. Drill hole RC007 returned 10m @ 3.51g/t from 30m including 1m @ 16.65g/tAu from 30mwithin a broader interval of 4m @ 6.88g/t from 30m CEO, Steven Tambanis, […]

QPM to double size of TECH Project on back of strong battery market interest

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Queensland Pacific Metals Ltd (ASX:QPM) has formally committed to increase the scale of the TECH Project by at least two times from what was originally contemplated in the Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) after receiving significant nickel and cobalt off take interest. Initial consideration of increasing the scale of the TECH Project from the PFS size (0.6M […]

NTM intersects exceptional grades in Hub Infill campaign

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NTM Gold Ltd (ASX: NTM) has intersected excellent grades and widths from its latest RC drilling campaign at the Hub and Gully areas, within the Redcliffe Gold Project located near Leonora, Western Australia. The 2020 RC programme concentrated on shallow infill drilling at Hub. The programme was designed to improve mineralisation definition ahead of a […]

Metalicity snaps up large strategic tenure near Kookynie Gold Project

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Metalicity Limited (ASX: MCT) has secured a strategic and significant new tenement (E40/401), two km north of the historic Desdemona Mining Camp in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, strengthening its land holding at the Kookynie Gold Project. Managing Director, Jason Livingstone, said that through continued strategic observations of tenement activity and in conjunction with […]

Bellevue Gold Stage 1 Feasibility Study rates mine in the top tier

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A Stage One Feasibility Study (FS) completed over Bellevue Gold Ltd (ASX:BGL) namesake gold project in Western Australia has projected it will be ranked amongst Australia’s Top-25 gold mines based upon annual production. The study also forecast Bellevue Gold will be one of the most profitable gold companies in Australia based on a Life of […]

Vulcan and DuPont agree to advance zero carbon lithium

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Vulcan Energy Resources (ASX:VUL) has reached an agreement to collaborate with global giant DuPont to test and scale up Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) solutions for Vulcan’s world-first Zero Carbon Lithium extraction process. DuPont’s Water Solutions business will leverage its portfolio of proprietary Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) products to assist Vulcan with input and test-work during […]

Megado commences maiden gold drilling programme in Ethiopia

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Ethiopian-focused gold explorer Megado Gold (ASX:MEG) had kicked-off a maiden, 10,000m, 15 hole drilling programme at its Chakata Gold Project. Chakata is located in the Adola Gold Belt in southern Ethiopia, only five kilometres south along strike from the country’s largest producing gold mines, Lega Dembi and Sakaro (+3Moz). The structure that hosts the Lega […]

Genesis intersects visible gold at Orient Well

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Genesis Minerals Limited (ASX: GMD) has obtained “exceptional” new results from in-fill and extensional resource drilling at the Orient Well deposit, one of the cornerstone deposits at its 100%- owned Ulysses Gold Project near Leonora in Western Australia. Drilling has intersected a significant zone of relatively shallow, high-grade gold mineralisation south of the Orient Well […]

Titan targeting a golden Dynasty n Ecuador

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Titan Minerals Limited (ASX: TTM) has further confirmed the potential of its Dynasty Gold Project in the Loja Province of southern Ecuador. Managing Director, Laurie Marsland, said the latest drilling assay results have validated diamond drilling completed in the 2019-20 field season within the Cerro Verde prospect following the completion of a re-sampling campaign. The […]

Drilling underway to define Vital mine plan at Nechalacho

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Vital Metals Limited (ASX: VML) has commenced a 30 hole, 1800m drilling programme at Nechalacho REE project in North West Territories, Canada aimed at defining a preliminary mine plan. The company has entered into a drilling contract, through its subsidiary Cheetah Resources Corp, with NorthTech Ltd, a Yellowknife based drilling company, with the aim of […]

Alto praying for drilling success in Lords Corridor with second rig now in action

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Alto Metals Limited (ASX: AME) has brought a a second reverse circulation (RC) rig to accelerate drilling priority targets at the Lords Corridor as part of its 2021 exploration programme at its Sandstone Gold Project in Western Australia. Managing Director, Matthew Bowles, said the second rig will help accelerate drilling activity with approximately 24,000m o […]

Maximus gets maximum result with expansion of Redback Gold Deposit

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Maximus Resources Limited (ASX:MXR) has successfully extended the known high-grade area with initial diamond drilling results from an ongoing Diamond Drill programme at the Redback Gold Deposit within the company’s Spargoville tenements near Kambalda in Western Australia. The early results from the first three holes, of an ~11-hole diamond drill programme, testing internal high-grade shoots […]

Calidus extends mineralisation 250m below Warrawoona resource

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Calidus Resources (ASX: CAI) has extended the known mineralisation at its Warrawoona Gold Project in the Pilbara by 250m below the existing Resource through some positive deep drilling results. Managing Director, Dave Reeves, said the results are highly significant because they show the potential for additional underground mining at Warrawoona, which in turn adds to […]

Liontown roars with significant new Moora gold-copper assays

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Liontown Resources Limited (ASX: LTR) has received further significant assay results from a partially completed maiden air-core drilling programme at its 100%-owned Moora Project in Western Australia. The 467 sq. km Moora Project is located 150km NNE of Perth, in the same geological terrain as Chalice Mines Limited’s world-class Julimar PGE-nickel-copper-gold discovery. The company recently […]

Siren making a noise with gold hits in New Zealand

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Siren Gold Limited (ASX: SNG) has intercepted six metres of quartz reef grading 5.1 g/t Au with visible gold at its Big River target on New Zealand’s South Island. The company is currently drilling at Alexander River and Big River, completing 36 holes for 3,120m by the end of January. Recent results include the 6m […]

Verizon Business, Deloitte bring 5G to retail, transforming customer experiences

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Verizon Business and Deloitte today unveiled a 5G and mobile edge computing (MEC) retail industry digital platform that is designed to give retailers the ability to gain significant efficiencies in their retail operations and transform customer experiences. This innovative platform can unlock retail in-store data with near real-time analytics to improve customer engagement, inventory efficiency, […]

Predictive continues to forecast promising future for Bankan Gold Project

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Predictive Discovery Limited (ASX: PDI) has extended gold mineralisation by at least 160m north along strike with results from three additional Diamond Drill (DD) holes from the Bankan Gold Project, located in Guinea. Managing Director, Paul Roberts, said the new drilling re-affirms potential for a significant gold mineralised body at Bankan Creek which could add […]

FYI and Alcoa obtain “outstanding” results from joint HPA pilot trial

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FYI Resources Ltd (ASX: FYI) has received analytical results indicating more than 99.998% Al2O3 purity was consistently achieved from the recently completed high purity alumina (HPA) pilot plant trial conducted in collaboration with Alcoa of Australia Limited. FYI Managing Director, Roland Hill, said the result represents an outstanding outcome and is further validation of FYI’s […]

BlackEarth in deal with world leading graphite supply group

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BlackEarth Minerals (ASX:BEM) has signed an agreement with leading international graphite procurement, supply and marketing specialist Luxcarbon GmbH of Germany. Under the terms of the Agreement, Luxcarbon will source and supply to BlackEarth up to the amount of 25,000mt pa of high-grade concentrate, with the graphite supplied from world class operations known to the BEM […]

Boss to take charge with Honeymoon plans

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Boss Energy Limited (ASX: BOE) is planning to step up development activity at its Honeymoon uranium project in South Australia after a review of its historical database has highlighted significant potential to grow the inventory. During the past year, Boss’s geology team completed a comprehensive desktop review of all historical geoscientific information acquired since exploration […]

Eclipse identifies multiple geophysical anomalies in Greenland

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Eclipse Metals Ltd (ASX: EPM) has identified a number of follow-up targets following a recently completed re-interpretation of geophysical data over the Gronnedal-lka area within the Ivittuut Project tenement, MEL2007/45, in Greenland. The aim of the programme was to identify new magnetic/EM anomalies that shared similar geophysical signatures with known mineralisation in other major mineral […]

Lefroy unveils new gold system at Havelock BIF Trend

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Lefroy Exploration Limited (ASX: LEX) has identified a new 1000m strike length bedrock gold anomaly within BIF trends in the Lucky Strike exploration hub that within the company’s flagship Lefroy Gold Project (LGP) in Western Australia. The new find was identified through the results of a recently completed 127-hole aircore (AC) drilling programme completed along […]

Ora Banda brings Davyhurst plant back to life with new gold pour

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Ora Banda Mining Limited (ASX:OBM) has successfully recommissioned and poured first gold poured at the Davyhurst Gold Process Plant, located 120km north west of Kalgoorlie in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. All supporting infrastructure required to sustain ongoing processing activities at the Davyhurst gold processing plant’s rated capacity of 1.2 Mtpa is now in […]

Alto builds on Sandstone position

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Alto Metals Limited (ASX: AME) has entered into a binding agreement with ASX-listed Gateway Mining Limited to acquire granted exploration tenement E57/1108, which is contiguous with the company’s Sandstone Gold Project tenements in Western Australia. Tenement E57/1108 (115 sq. km) is located immediately east of Alto’s 100% owned the Sandstone Gold Project and hosts over […]

Galileo identifies significant new Fraser Range nickel targets

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Galileo Mining Ltd (ASX: GAL) has identified a number of promising new drill targets through a successful EM survey over the Delta Blues Prospect in the Fraser Range region of Western Australia. Three large and strong conductors have been modelled from the EM data at shallow depths between 95 and 170 metres below surface. Infill […]

Anax confirms promising drilling results at Whim Creek

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Anax Metals Limited (ASX: ANX) has confirmed the visible evidence of its metallurgical diamond drilling completed in November 2020 at the Whim Creek Copper-Zinc Project, located south of Port Hedland in the West Pilbara region of Western Australia. Anax recently completed its 80% Earn-In Interest in the project from VentureX Resources Ltd. In late November […]

Exchange-Traded Funds Vs Managed Funds

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Investing your money in order to generate a regular income can be very useful, especially if you’re looking for ways to fund your retirement. But when you’re searching for the most suitable income investment plan, there are a number of different options available. Two of the most common investment structures are called exchange-traded funds (ETFs) […]

How Telehealth Could Become Mainstream In Australia

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What is the future of telehealth in Australia? Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the healthcare industry has seen a rise in telehealth. Telehealth can be a game-changer for clinicians seeking new ways to serve patients, and for patients seeking new ways to get medical help. Although telehealth has yet to become mainstream in Australia’s health […]

Celsius wraps up Philippine copper-gold purchase

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Celsius Resources (ASX: CLA) has now successfully settled the acquisition of a suite of copper-gold projects in the Philippines, including the flagship Maalinao-Caigutan-Biyog (MCB) Project. MCB and the other Philippine-based projects were owned by private UK company Anleck Limited with Celsius having now acquired all the issued capital of Anleck. With settlement, Martin Buckingham has […]

Marmota returns over 165 g/t from Aurora Tank assays

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Marmota (ASX:MEU) has received its best ever one metre intersection of 165 g/t gold from detailed assay results from an RC drilling programme completed in September 2020 at its Aurora Tank project in South Australia. To ensure that the outstanding assay of 165g/t gold was not the result of a ‘nugget effect’, Marmota collected five […]

RareX signs MoU with leading Chinese rare earths producer

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RareX Limited (ASX: REE) has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the leading global rare earths producer, Shenghe Resources Holdings Co. The terms of the MoU provide a framework for Shenghe and RareX to establish an alliance via the formation of a jointly owned Rare Earths Trading Company (RET Co) to source […]

Metals Australia unveils robust Lac Rainy Graphite Scoping Study

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Metals Australia Limited (ASX:MLS) has released a positive Scoping Study on the company’s 100% owned Lac Rainy Graphite Project located in Quebec, Canada. Director, Gino D’Anna, said the Project economics and technical viability are highly encouraging, highlighting its potential to become a low cost flake graphite producer, in a growing Electric Vehicle (EV) market. Mr […]

Titan adds to promising Iguanna Vein story in Ecuador

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Titan Minerals Limited (ASX: TTM) reports that the latest assay results for the Iguana Prospect support the interpreted widths and extent of the Iguana vein corridor at its Dynasty Gold Project in southern Ecuador. Managing Director, Laurie Marsland, said the results have confirmed that Iguana hosts approximately 375,000 ounces of the existing 2.1Moz gold foreign […]

Luxembourg green energy fund leads backing for European Metals’ A$7.1 million raising

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European Metals Holdings Limited (ASX:EMH) has successfully received firm commitments, including the backing of a major European green energy fund, for a placement to raise A$7.1 million to assist in the further development of the Cinovec Lithium Project, the largest hard rock lithium resource in Europe. Executive Chairman, Keith Coughlan, said the Placement was very […]

BMG feeling Invincible with multiple high impact targets identified

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BMG Resources Limited (ASX: BMG) has identified multiple exploration targets at its 100% owned Invincible Gold Project – located in the central Pilbara of Western Australia through new aeromagnetic and radiometric geophysical survey data. Managing Director, Bruce McCracken, said Invincible is one of BMG’s three highly prospective, 100%-owned gold exploration projects in the Tier 1 […]

Ausmex uncovers shallow, high-grade gold opportunity at historic Comstock mine

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Ausmex Mining Group Ltd (ASX:AMG) has confirmed that high-grade gold ore near the surface remains unmined at the historical Comstock gold mine in Queensland, with plan to bring the project quickly into production. Assays from the first hole in a three-hole infill Diamond Drilling programme at Comstock, show that the company intersected five metres of […]

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, […]

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