Perth, Western Australia - Thursday December 9, 2021 |
Thai lithium hits continue to roll in for Pan Asia
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Lithium explorer, Pan Asia Metals continues to deliver solid lithium hits at its Reung Kiet prospect in southern Thailand in anticipation of a maiden resource estimate for its broader Reung Kiet project tabled for early in the new year. Latest hits from four holes at the prospect include an impressive 26.35m going 0.84 per cent lithium oxide and add to other significant lithium strikes recently reported. |
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Horizon onto ounce plus dirt near Kalgoorlie
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Horizon Minerals has received a slew of high-grade gold assays from 31 holes of a 42 drill hole RC program to the north of the historic Golden Ridge mine and 4 kilometres south of its Boorara project in near Kalgoorlie. Significant drill intersections include a 4 metre section grading at a stellar 46.7 grams per tonne gold from 80m downhole. |
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Kalamazoo floods sample labs as WA lithium hunt heats up
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Kalamazoo Resources has flooded West Australian sample labs with nearly 9000 soil samples from two of its projects that are within the heartland of WA’s lithium discoveries. Work currently underway at the company’s Marble Bar project follows a large soil sampling campaign recently completed at the nearby DOM’s Hill lithium project that identified 30 prospective areas through preliminary portable XRF analysis. |
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Lithium green light for Aldoro after heritage survey
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Aldoro Resources is days away from firing up the rig to drill over 60 holes across its Niobe East, Niobe Southeast and Breakaway pegmatites in WA after completing a heritage site avoidance survey at its planned drill sites. The program follows a recently completed exploration campaign that saw Aldoro bag up close to 50 rock chip samples with elevated lithium pathfinder minerals. |
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White Cliff onto WA lithium and rare earth quest
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White Cliff Minerals has launched a first-pass lithium and rare earths exploration venture at its Yinnetharra project that sits some 100 kilometres northeast of the Gascoyne Junction in Western Australia. The helicopter-supported field trip is part of the company’s plan to aggressively advance its recently swelled battery metal portfolio that could grow to include almost a dozen projects. |
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Newfield recovers 5 carat diamond from Sierra Leone |
Newfield Resources continues to hit paydirt at its Tongo diamond concessions in eastern Sierra Leone. The Perth-based budding diamond producer has unearthed more “gem-quality” diamonds in the Peyima kimberlite located only 5km southeast of the current mine development on the Kundu and Lando kimberlites where production is slated to commence in the early months of 2022. |
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Mineral Commodities beefs up African mineral sands resource
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Mineral Commodities has beefed up its mineral resource estimate at the company’s Western Strandline deposit in South Africa to a hearty 193 million tonnes grading 9.5 per cent total heavy minerals. A maiden mineral resource has also been carved out for the adjacent Eastern Strandline deposit that has been estimated at 19.5 million tonnes going 3.3 per cent total heavy minerals. |
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Gold hunt resumes for Godolphin in NSW
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Godolphin Resources has fired up the RC drill rig at its Gundagai gold project in NSW, after a patch of unseasonal rough weather delayed the interrogation of its high-grade ground. The reignited campaign will see the gold explorer plunge 12 holes totalling 1,975 metres. To date, the company has completed five holes and intends to launch another half a dozen or so. |
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High-grade WA gold hits continue to flow for Alto
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Gold explorer, Alto Metals continues to deliver the goods from a regional gold hunt at its multi-deposit Sandstone gold project in WA’s East Murchison region. Latest drilling has returned multiple gold strikes outside the project’s 331,000 ounce resource base, including a 24 metre hit going 3.5 grams per tonne gold at the Vanguard Camp prospect. |
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Auroch confirms lithium find in WA nickel search
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Regional sampling of pegmatite veins by mineral exploration company, Auroch Minerals has unearthed lithium mineralisation grading up to 1.05 per cent lithium at its 80 per cent owned Nepean project in Western Australia. The company’s nickel sulphide search at the project is also set to intensify with regional drilling of several prospects along 10km of strike now on the cards. |
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Shallow gold in all directions for KalGold
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Kalgoorlie Gold Mining, or KalGold has spotted a near surface open pit mining opportunity at its La Mascotte gold system near Kalgoorlie after reviewing a grab bag of historical bonanza near surface gold hits. Notable results identified include 7 metres grading 14.87 grams per tonne gold from surface and 2m grading a bonanza 141.15g/t gold or over 4 ounces to the tonne from 8m downhole. |
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Kaiser probes Victorian gold ground
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Kaiser Reef has dusted off the diamond drill rig to kick start a fresh drilling campaign at its historic Nuggety Reef gold mine at the northern end of the Maldon gold mine in Victoria. According to the company, the Nuggety Reef gold mine was one of Australia’s highest-grade gold mines and previously churned out over 300,000 ounces grading 187 grams per tonne of recovered gold. |
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Great Southern identifies WA nickel conductor targets
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Great Southern Mining has identified multiple bedrock anomalies considered prospective for nickel mineralisation in its recent electromagnetic survey at its East Laverton Nickel project in WA. One identified anomaly spanned a massive 2km by 1km and lined up with the edge of a regional gravity anomaly that Great Southern says provides further evidence of a potential blind nickel sulphide discovery. |
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Calidus steaming ahead toward first Pilbara gold pour
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Calidus Resources continues to tick off the check list of the required development works for its planned Warrawoona gold mine in the Pilbara region of WA. It says construction of the processing plant is now 85 per cent complete, with overall progress importantly running on time and on budget. Warrawoona is projected to churn out up to 105,000 ounces of gold annually with production forecast to commence in the first half of 2022. |
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