Entries by Wally Graham

Blackstone Minerals Maintains Nickel Strike Form at Ta Khao Project

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Blackstone Minerals (ASX: BSX) has drilled further value at the company’s Ta Khoa nickel-copper-PGE project in Northern Vietnam. Blackstone Minerals reported assay results from a maiden drilling program carried out at the Ban Khoa Disseminated Sulphide (DSS) prospect at the Ta Khoa project. Blackstone considers Ban Khoa to be a bulk tonnage […]

Golden Mile Resources to Reassess Quicksilver Metallurgy

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Golden Mile Resources (ASX: G88) has committed to a second phase of metallurgical testing on the company’s 100 per cent-owned Quicksilver nickel-cobalt project, located just outside Perth, in the Wheatbelt Region of Western Australia. The decision follows a desk top review recently completed by leading nickel laterite processing engineers Wood Mining and […]

Kin Mining Eyes Mount Flora as Potential Large Mineralised System

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Kin Mining (ASX: KIN) reported on follow up air-core (AC) drilling undertaken at the Mount Flora prospect, located 20 kilometres from the company’s 100 per cent-owned 1.23 million ounces Cardinia gold project (CGP) near Leonora in Western Australia. Kin Mining reported the drilling had intersected zones of shallow, high-grade, gold mineralisation, returning […]

Foreign Minister Acknowledges Australian/African Cooperation

THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Western Australia is probably the most difficult state to enter at present, especially so for international travellers. This meant this year’s Africa Downunder Conference in Perth became a televisual feast as government officials from around the resource-rich continent were required to send pre-recorded video presentations. The hard state border meant the Federal […]

Miramar Resources Identifies New EM Targets

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Miramar Resources (ASX: M2R) informed the market of a review of historical data, from which it has identified multiple electro-magnetic (EM) conductors. Miramar Resources has identified the EM conductors within the Dooley Downs tenement application (aka E09/2484) within the company’s Bangemall nickel-copper-PGE project in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. E09/2484 is […]

Aurumin Encounters High-Gold-Grades at Mt Dimer

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Aurumin (ASX: AUN) reported assay results from recent Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling undertaken at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Mt Dimer project, north-east of Southern Cross in Western Australia. Aurumin conducted the RC drilling at seven deposits and prospects across the Mt Dimer project. Mt Dimer is a historical high-grade production centre […]

Auroch Minerals Commences Nepean and Saints Scoping Studies

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Auroch Minerals (ASX: AOU) announced commencement of scoping studies at both its Nepean (Auroch Minerals 80%) and Saints nickel projects in Western Australia. Auroch Minerals is conducting the studies to evaluate the economic viability of several mining scenarios at Nepean, including an initial open-pit mine of the known shallow high-grade nickel sulphide […]

Alchemy Resources Lays Karonie Foundation with Maiden Resource Estimation

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Alchemy Resources (ASX: ALY) reported the maiden JORC 2012 Mineral Resource Estimate for the Taupo, KZ5 and Parmelia deposits at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Karonie gold project, located east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The deposit combination has been estimated for Karonie to currently contain 2.96 million tonnes at 1.2 grams […]

Cazaly Resources Confirms Mount Angelo Copper-Zinc Mineralisation

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Cazaly Resources (ASX: CAZ) received assay results from a recent drilling campaign carried out at the Mount Angelo North copper-zinc project located within the company’s Halls Creek copper project in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Cazaly Resources completed seven RC drillholes at Mount Angelo North in June to test the continuity […]