Entries by Wally Graham

The Producers

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Seems like some companies have been busy to the point where some have beaten their production forecasts. Atlas ships record 10.9 million tonnes for FY2014 Atlas Iron (ASX: AGO) has beaten its full-year production guidance after shipping 3.1 million tonnes in the June 2014 quarter. The result took shipments to a record […]

Gold, Gruyere and Toto

THE INSIDE STORY: For those unfamiliar with the journey of emerging gold miner Gold Road Resources (ASX: GOR) it is worth taking a quick look back at how the company has reached its current value. Gold Road owns a healthy percentage of the Yamarna greenstone Belt, covering approximately 5,000 square kilometres of the Yilgarn Craton, […]

Ord River kicks off Trident DFS

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Ord River Resources (ASX: ORD) has commenced a Definitive Feasibility Study on the Trident deposit in the Plutonic Dome gold project. The Plutonic Dome gold project is a Farm In/Joint Venture with Dampier Gold (ASX: DAU). The Trident deposit is located 30 kilometres from Northern Star’s (ASX: NST) Plutonic gold mine and […]

Northern Star beats production guidance

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Northern Star Resources (ASX: NST) boasted that it has beaten its June Quarter production guidance thanks to strong results at all its operations. The company announced production, as measured by gold sold, from the Paulsens, Plutonic, Kundana and Kanowna Belle projects totalled 115,819 ounces in the three months to 30 June 2014. […]

Montezuma identifies Yamarna Belt gold targets

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Montezuma Mining Company (ASX: MZM) is has completed a review of historic exploration data for the Mallee project (tenement ELA 38/2889), located on the Yamarna Greenstone Belt in Western Australia. Montezuma claims the review has identified a large area of gold anomalism in surface soil sample data from work completed by Western […]

Altona sells Finnish assets for US$95M

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Altona Mining (ASX: AOH) has entered into an agreement for the sale of all of its Finnish operations and most of its exploration assets in Finland. The buyer is Boliden Mineral AB), a Swedish base metal miner and smelter, which currently buys all of Altona’s concentrate products. Boliden will pay US$95 million […]

Sheffield identifies large conductor at Red Bull

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Sheffield Resources (ASX:SFX) has received results from high-powered Moving and Fixed Loop Transient Electromagnetic (MLTEM& FLTEM) ground geophysical surveys at the company’s Red Bull nickel-copper project, located within 20 kilometres of Sirius Resources’ (ASX: SIR) Nova nickel-copper deposit, in the Fraser Range Nickel Province of Western Australia. The MLTEM survey was completed […]

Toro encounters record uranium at Millipede

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Toro Energy (ASX: TOE) has received initial drilling results from the company’s largest ever drilling campaign to be conducted at its approved Wiluna uranium project in Western Australia. The drilling has intersected the highest ever recorded grades of uranium mineralisation at Millipede deposit, which Toro said represents a major improvement in previously […]

Orinoco hits bonanza grades in Cascavel decline

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Orinoco Gold (ASX: OGX) has received impressive first assay results from contiguous panel sampling taken form the exploration decline at the company’s Cascavel gold project in central Brazil. Orinoco said the results – when combined with previous drilling, underground bulk and channel sampling – provide further evidence of the potential for structurally […]

Trafford confirms Weednanna tin discovery

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Trafford Resources (ASX: TRF) has announced the results of a recently completed reassay program carried out at the Weednanna tin prospect, located within the company’s 100per cent-owned Wilcherry Hill tenements in South Australia. The company said the widespread nature of tin at Wilcherry Hill has been confirmed by the number of tin […]