Diggers & Dealers chief calls on Industry to make Innovation noise ROADHOUSE GUEST: Diggers & Dealers chairman Nick Giorgetta ponders why there is too little discussion regarding innovation and technology associated with the resources industry. Governments and communities are happy to promote an association with the resources industry when commodities prices are high and taxes […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Intermin Resources (ASX: IRC) has announced updated Mineral Resources for the company’s 100 per cent-owned Menzies gold project near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Intermin has completed an extensive drilling project at the project including recent infill, extensional and validation programs totalling 54 Reverse Circulation (RC) holes completed during 2014 and 2015. All […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Toro Energy (ASX: TOE) has reported early results from geological modelling and mine planning studies currently underway at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Wiluna uranium project in Western Australia. According to Toro the early signs are that Wiluna could deliver an improved mining grade at lower unit mining costs. This would translate […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) sent the fourth estate into a whirl with news it had signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Brazilian multinational diversified metals and mining company Vale S.A. FMG didn’t really let much slip about the MoU, except to say the two companies have agreed to pursue long […]
CONFERENCE CALLER: Metals X (ASX: MLX) CEO and executive director Peter Cook was probably the only person to be truly surprised that his company’s name had been read out. Picking up the Craig Oliver Award at the RIU Explorers Conference in Fremantle, Cook said Metals X was very pleased and honoured to be handed the […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Patersons Securities resource analyst Jason Chesters was given an unexpected, and rare opportunity when he was asked to provide a market update on the opening day of the RIU Explorers Conference in Fremantle. Fortunately for Chesters, and for all the explorers sitting in the packed auditorium, for the first time in some […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Musgrave Minerals (ASX: MGV) provided delegates on Day Two at the RIU Explorers Conference in Fremantle plenty to talk about around the coffee machine. The company announced it had encountered some eight metres of massive to semi-massive sulphide at the Mt Eelya prospect on the Cue project, located in the Murchison region […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Adelaide Resources (ASX” AND) anticipates tripling its holdings of gold prospective ground with the submission of two new tenement applications in the Drummond Basin in Queensland. The company hopes the new applications will secure an additional 564 square kilometres of ground, to complement the total area of 838 square kilometres it currently […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Saracen Mineral Holdings (ASX: SAR) has received results from drilling at the company’s Carosue Dam project in Western Australia. Saracen said the results point to increases in the project’s current five-year mine life. “These results will form part of the Resource-Reserve upgrade planned for the June Quarter,” the company explained it its […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Australian Vanadium (ASX: AVL) has signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) with GILDEMEISTER energy storage GmbH for the purpose of collaborating on future Vanadium Redox Flow Battery (VRFB) installations and electrolyte production in Australia. GILDEMEISTER manufactures the CellCube vanadium flow energy storage system, of which it has installed more than 100 systems […]
