THE DRILL SERGEANT: Barton Gold Holdings (ASX: BGD) reported drilling results achieved from the Area 51 gold zone at the company’s Tunkillia gold project in South Australia. Barton Gold Holdings carried out this round of drilling in late 2023 following prior programs in 2022 and early 2023 that had resulted in updating the projects Mineral […]
COMMODITY CAPERS: It’s been a sad start to the year for the Australian nickel sector after a slump in prices through 2023. By Kristie Batten Since the start of January, administrators of collapsed junior producer Panoramic Resources have shut down the Savannah mine in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Andrew Forrest’s Wyloo Metals has […]
Burley Minerals Intercepts Additional Spodumene Bearing Dykes at Chubb THE DRILL SERGEANT: Burley Minerals (ASX: BUR) will be up for a chat at the RIU Explorers Conference next week after receiving new assay data from drilling at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Chubb lithium project in Quebec, Canada. Prior to receiving the assay results, […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Antipa Minerals (ASX: AZY) reported assay results for follow-up drilling at the GEO-01 gold discovery the company’s 100 per cent-owned Minyari Dome gold-copper project in the Paterson Province of Western Australia. Antipa Minerals drilled two Western Australian Government Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS) co-funded diamond core drill holes that intersected near-surface high-grade gold […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: The market for junior explorers may have been a touch gloomy so far in 2024 but if there’s one thing the sector has demonstrated time and time again, it’s resilience. By Kristie Batten In the final months of 2023, gains in the junior sector were driven by frenzied interest in the lithium […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Future Battery Minerals (ASX: FBM) was keen to release results achieved from a maiden metallurgical testwork program carried out for the company’s 100 per cent-owned Kangaroo Hills lithium project (KHLP) in Western Australia. Test work included X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), test results from which confirmed spodumene is the predominant lithium mineral (comprising ~90% […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Gateway Mining (ASX: GML) has declared a new exploration opportunity for magmatic copper-nickel-PGE mineralisation within the company’s 100 per cent-owned Montague gold project in the Murchison Region of Western Australia. Gateway Mining explained the discovery follows a series of project-wide strategic data compilation and targeting exercises, which are being progressed as part […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: New World Resources (ASX: NWC) reported delineation of a coincident IP chargeability/magnetic anomaly directly along strike from the company’s Antler copper deposit in Arizona, USA. New World Resources identified the Bullhorn target via a drone magnetic survey and a ground Induced Polarisation (IP) survey over its 2023 acquisition of 1,000 acres of […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Carnaby Resources (ASX: CNB) announced new exploration results from the company’s Greater Duchess copper gold project in Mt Isa, Queensland. Carnaby Resources declared a new high-grade discovery at Duchess based on a single RC drill hole targeting an off hole conductor from a previous downhole EM survey in the area. The company […]
COMMODITY CAPERS: After years in the doldrums, uranium was surprisingly the best performer of 2023 and has already outperformed so far in the new year. By Kristie Batten The uranium price started 2023 as it has started most years in the past decade – languishing at below US$50 a pound but reached $90/lb by the […]
