EDITION #345
Perth, Western Australia - Wednesday February 07, 2024 |
Castle kicks off new year with major graphite milestone |
Castle Minerals has achieved purification levels of 99.97 per cent total graphitic carbon from ore at its Kambale project in Ghana, exceeding the benchmark required to produce lithium-ion battery anodes. |
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ChemX secures HPA process patent as pilot plant looms |
ChemX Materials has been granted a vital patent in Australia for its 100 per cent-owned proprietary disruptive “HiPurA” high-purity alumina process as the company eyes commercialisation options. |
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Dart set to drill-test historic Victorian gold workings |
With a solid lithium project sitting in the incubator until prices improve and a gold project that is littered with historic targets, Dart Mining has the best of both worlds. |
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Former BHP and Orica executive takes Arafura reins |
Former BHP and Orica executive Darryl Cuzzubbo has taken the reins at Arafura Rare Earths and will have the responsibility of driving the company’s Nolans rare earths project in the NT to completion. |
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Altech powering towards “salt” battery pack production |
Altech Batteries is getting closer to producing its Cerenergy solid-state battery pack that uses ordinary table-variety salt following an upgrade that has transformed its previously small trial batteries. |
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Future Battery to go hybrid on lithium concentrate flowsheet |
Future Battery Minerals says a hybrid flowsheet using heavy liquid separation and froth flotation could simplify spodumene processing and deliver high rates of recovery from its Kangaroo Hills project in WA. |
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Western Mines eyes 2 billion tonnes for Mulga Tank nickel |
Western Mines Group has estimated that potential exists for a globally-significant 350 million to 2.2 billion tonnes grading between 0.24 and 0.35 per cent nickel in its Mulga Tank project near Kalgoorlie. |
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Infini fieldwork pinpoints host of Canadian lithium targets |
Infini Resources has defined a host of new lithium targets at its Paterson Lake project in the Canadian province of Ontario after completing surveys, sampling, geological studies and a historical data review. |
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Sand King looms as second Ora Banda underground gold mine |
Ora Banda Mining’s Sand King deposit near Kalgoorlie is firming as the preferred site for its second underground gold mine following significant high-grade results from its first-phase drill campaign. |
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Millrose lookalike: Strickland unpicks Marwari geology |
The complex mineralisation at Strickland Metals’ Marwari trend is unravelling to reveal a 2.6km-long corridor with similar gold enrichment style to that seen at Millrose, which the company sold for $61 million. |
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Kalamazoo set to net $33m from Ashburton project sale |
Kalamazoo Resources has signed an agreement with the renowned De Grey Mining operation for a potential $33 million future sale of its Ashburton gold project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. |
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Venus hunts more WA lithium at Youanmi project |
Venus Metals has kicked off its maiden reverse-circulation drill campaign at the highly-compelling Deep South lithium prospect at its Youanmi project, where lithium-bearing pegmatites were recently discovered. |
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Phoenix flow test imminent for 88 Energy in Alaska |
88 Energy is eyeing up contingent resources in Alaska as it prepares to flow test two reservoir intervals in its Hickory-1 well, both of which showed strong hydrocarbon indicators during drilling. |
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Second Kimberley hole hits more high-grade nickel for Buxton |
Buxton Resources says a second diamond drillhole into the Dogleg prospect it shares with IGO in WA’s West Kimberley has thrown up a 2.89m hit going 4.17 per cent nickel and 0.83 per cent copper from 233.63m. |
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Viridis rakes in $4.5m to keep Brazilian drill bit spinning |
Viridis Mining & Minerals’ share price has gone on a solid run today after completing a “heavily oversubscribed” $4.5 million placement to supercharge its hunt for rare earths at its Colossus project in Brazil. |
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