THE DRILL SERGEANT: Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) has continued it run of intersecting high-grade massive sulphide nickel-copper-PGE at Ban Chang, part of the company’s Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGE project in Vietnam. The first four holes of Blackstone Minerals’ maiden drilling program at Ban Chang have all encountered sulphide mineralisation. The latest of these, BC20-04, returned: 21.5 […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO), publicly at least, has its tail between its legs in regards to the destruction of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site in Juukan Gorge. The company blew up the Juukan Gorge rock shelters in the Hamersley Range in the Pilbara of Western Australia in May to expand its Brockman […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Middle Island Resources (ASX: MDI) declared its latest drilling results from the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sandstone gold project in Western Australia as being “bonanza gold grade intercepts”. Middle Island’s latest gold results emerge from the recent Phase 2 reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign at the Sandstone gold project at the new […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) has commenced first stage exploration and geophysical works on the company’s recently acquired Andover nickel-copper project in the West Pilbara region of Western Australia. Azure is purchasing – subject to shareholder approval – 60 per cent of the project with the remaining 40 per cent to be retained […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Ausgold Limited (ASX: AUC) is well and truly cashed-up for drilling planned at the company’s 100 per cent- owned Katanning gold project in Western Australia. Ausgold announced it had binding commitments from institutional and sophisticated investors for a share placement to raise just over $6.3 million to underpin an extensive exploration and […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Apollo Consolidated (ASX: AOP) continues to progress drilling underway at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Lake Rebecca gold project east of Kalgoorlie in the West Australian goldfields. Apollo Consolidated drilled 26 holes, 23 of which encountered reportable gold intercepts building on the company’s confidence around the existing 180,000-ounce gold Inferred Mineral Resource […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Few junior explorers can claim a list of heavyweight partners like Antipa Minerals (ASX: AZY). Antipa Minerals first lured a big name to join its hunt for giant deposits in Western Australia’s Paterson Province in 2015 when it struck a $60 million farm-in agreement with Rio Tinto on its Citadel project. Since […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Musgrave Minerals has been one of the standout performers among junior gold stocks in recent months due to its success with drilling at the Break of Day deposit, part of its Cue gold project in Western Australia’s Murchison district. Musgrave shares have soared from 10 cents at the start of April to […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Saturn Metals (ASX: STN) continued to release encouraging results from ongoing reverse circulation (RC) drilling at the Apollo Hill deposit within the company’s 100 per cent-owned Apollo Hill gold project in Western Australia. Saturn Metals is drilling at Apollo Hill as part of the company’s strategy to grow the Apollo Hill project’s […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Middle Island Resources (ASX: MDI) continued its run of positive results from a Phase 2 reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign underway at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sandstone gold project in the central goldfields of Western Australia. Middle Island’s recent results have come in the form of broad intervals of shallow dipping, […]
