THE DRILL SERGEANT: Renaissance Minerals (ASX: RNS) has reported high-grade rock chip sample results from Okvau North-West prospect, part of the company’s Okvau gold project in Cambodia. The Okvau North-West prospect is a new target area located less than two kilometres from Renaissance’s 100 per cent-owned 1.2 million ounces of gold Okvau deposit. The company’s […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: With the APPEA Conference visiting Perth this week our JV update has a bit of an Oil & Gas feel about it. Farm-in to onshore New Zealand oil discovery MEO Australia Limited (ASX: MEO), through its wholly-owned subsidiary, MEO New Zealand Pty Limited, has executed a binding agreement with AIM-listed Kea Petroleum […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) has commenced a 9,000 metre diamond drilling program at the company’s Yeneena base metals project in Western Australia. BM2 zinc prospect (100 per cent Encounter) Encounter has kicked off its 2014 diamond drill program at the BM2 zinc prospect at Yeneena. The company said the initial hole in […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Ironbark Zinc (ASX: IBG) has entered into a new non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. (NFC). The MoU follows the completion of a Feasibility Study on the company’s Citronen base metal project in Greenland and following due diligence and site visits by […]
THE ROADHOUSE PHARMACY: Regenerative medicine company Avita Medical (ASX: AVH) has developed and released to market a new version of ReCell® ‘Spray‐on Skin®’ that no longer requires refrigeration. The company claims this greatly improves the commercial and practical benefits to clinicians. The new version of ReCell has been cleared for use and is starting to […]
THE ROADHOUSE PHARMACY: Starpharma Holdings (ASX: SPL) has signed a second, expanded agreement with AstraZeneca in the field of cancer medicine using Starpharma’s proprietary DEP™ dendrimer drug delivery technology. The agreement follows on from an evaluation by AstraZeneca which began in September 2012 of Starpharma’s delivery technology. The new agreement will see the application of […]
THE ROADHOUSE PHARMACY: Antisense Therapeutics (ASX: ANP) has been informed the US Patent Office has allowed US Patent 61/132973 entitled ‘Methods for treating multiple sclerosis (MS) using antisense oligonucleotides’. Antisense said this covers the use of the ATL1102 compound to reduce brain lesions in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS), and progressive forms of MS including secondary […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) has identified additional EM (electromagnetic) conductors at the Stella Range ultramafic belt in Western Australia. The EM anomalies were detected by a MLEM survey carried out at the company’s 100 per cent-owned East Laverton Property. Dragon 1is a new conductor at the Desert Dragon nickel prospect. Windsor […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Kin Mining (ASX: KIN) is poised to acquire the Leonora gold project having executed a binding term sheet with the administrator of Navigator Resources (ASX: NAV). The Leonora gold project comes as a ready-made package for Kin consisting the Mertondale, Cardinia, Raeside, and Gamber Loss project areas, which host a combined JORC-compliant […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Base Resources (ASX: BSE) has moved the first shipments of rutile and zircon from the company’s Kwale mineral sands operations, located just south of Mombasa in Kenya. Base’s first 7,000 tonne bulk shipment of rutile set sail from the Likoni Port Facility as the company’s first containers of zircon departed via the […]
