Perth, Western Australia - Wednesday March 23, 2022 |
Aruma onto high-grade WA gold discovery with 224 g/t hit |
Aruma Resources has tabled another lovely set of high-grade drill results including a one metre section grading a whopping 224 grams per tonne gold from just 44 metres downhole in maiden drilling at its Salmon Gums greenfields gold project 200 kilometres south of Kalgoorlie in WA. Other notable drill results include a 5m intersection going 50.2 g/t gold from 42m downhole with a 3m internal parcel coming in at 83 g/t gold. |
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Surefire books rig for Yidby gold project step-outs |
Buoyed by initial drilling results, Surefire Resources has booked a rig for April to drill out anomalies 400 metres northwest of its Yidby gold project in WA that returned 16m of gold at 1.39 grams per tonne from 16m. The company said the figures suggest a new discovery area hosting a northwest trending structure with wide downhole gold results. |
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Frontier onto high-grade rare earth rock chips in WA |
Frontier Resources has scooped up a suite of high-grade rare earths from a 134-piece rock chip sampling program at its Gascoyne rare earths project in Western Australia, with the best result coming in at over 8 per cent total rare earth oxides. The campaign was aimed at testing a number of compelling targets hosted within a geological terrain that boasts multiple world-class discoveries. |
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Latin kicks off trial mining at WA halloysite-kaolin deposit |
Latin Resources is pushing ahead with a resource upgrade at its 100 per cent owned Cloud Nine halloysite-kaolin deposit after kicking off a geotechnical diamond drilling campaign around 300km east of Perth in Western Australia. According to the company, cores from the program will be used to complete bulk density test work and provide samples for large scale laboratory analysis. |
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Aldoro strikes nickel-copper at WA prospect |
Aldoro Resources has tabled the assay results for a pair of diamond drillholes prospective for nickel and copper at its V1 prospect, part of the larger Narndee project about 90 kilometres from Mount Magnet in Western Australia. The company says the program has confirmed the presence of the en vogue minerals in both drill holes. |
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KalGold commences maiden diamond drilling program |
Kalgoorlie Gold Mining or KalGold has launched a diamond drill program to further characterise gold mineralisation and to inform future JORC 2012 resource estimates. The move follows a string of successes at its La Mascotte prospect within the company’s flagship Bulong Taurus project near Kalgoorlie. An RC rig is also set to join the party in late April or early May to keep the campaign going. |
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Ardea wields major project status for nickel cobalt play |
The Australian Federal Government has rolled out the red carpet for Ardea Resources by stamping major project status on its Kalgoorlie nickel and cobalt operation. The decision could help the developer haul its hefty bag of battery metals to market. It plans to produce 35,000 tonnes of nickel metal-equivalent per annum from 2026 onwards, contributing to the 825,000t of new supply predicted to be needed by 2030. |
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Macarthur supercharges iron reserves in new PFS findings |
Macarthur Minerals has unleashed a gigantic maiden mineral reserve estimate from feasibility study findings that confirms the economic viability of its Lake Giles project under long-term iron ore price forecasts. The project sits 250km northwest of Kalgoorlie and houses a massive 237 million tonnes at beneficiated grades of 66.1 per cent iron and has an enviable 25 year calculated mine life. |
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Askari spins auger drill in search of Wheatbelt gold
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Multi-element explorer Askari Metals is now spinning an auger drill in search of gold in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region. It plans to sink and sample 328 holes across a four-kilometre strike distance at its Burracoppin gold project. The latest campaign aims to build upon a recent pass of soil sampling that yielded results of up to 2 grams per tonne gold. |
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Calidus etches out more Pilbara gold targets |
Calidus Resources has etched out a plethora of promising new gold targets at its Blue Spec project in the heart of the Pilbara. Stream sediment sampling has lit up three prospective targets returning values up to 326 parts per billion gold along strike from the high-grade Blue Spec project where the company is set to deliver the results of a definitive feasibility study in the coming months. |
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Aurumin takes reins at Sandstone gold project |
Junior gold explorer Aurumin Limited has taken control of a 784,000 ounce gold resource through the acquisition of the Sandstone gold project from Middle Island Resources near the town of Sandstone in WA. The asset acquisition will add to Aurumin’s existing and nearby 65,000-ounce gold mineral resource base at its Johnson Range project in addition to providing a new prospective hunting ground for further discoveries. |
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Gravity surveys light up more potash for Trigg |
Trigg Mining has revealed significant growth potential using gravity surveys at its Laverton sulphate of potash projects in the eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. With two pivotal gravity surveys now complete, Trigg is now preparing for a maiden drill-program in the second half of the year. |
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Godolphin to offload gold and base metals to fund NSW rare earths |
Godolphin Resources has entered into a binding term sheet with ASX-listed Orange Minerals to offload its Ophir and Wiseman’s Creek projects in New South Wales for a total consideration of $550,000. The projects are prospective for gold and base metals and according to the company, the sale will provide a cash injection that will be funnelled to its nearby Narraburra rare earths project. |
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Conico, Greenstone see boost through cobalt nickel price surge |
Battery metal explorer Conico and its joint venture partner ASX-listed Greenstone Resources are relishing today’s high prices for cobalt and nickel that are turbocharging the economics of the 50-50 Mt Thirsty project in Western Australia. The project aims to produce a mixed sulphide product to be consumed by the burgeoning lithium-ion battery industry. |
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Kula nears drilling completion of WA kaolin prospect |
Perth-based explorer Kula Gold is closing in on the finish line of a diamond drilling campaign at its Boomerang kaolin prospect, part of the larger Marvel Loch – Airfield project near Southern Cross in Western Australia. According to the company, the campaign marks its final stage of fieldwork for resource studies and says its metallurgical test work is nearing a conclusion. |
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