THE DRILL SERGEANT: Centaurus Metals (ASX: CTM) has received results from a recent trenching program carried out at its 100 per cent-owned Candonga iron ore project, a satellite deposit of the company’s Jambreiro iron ore project in south‐east Brazil. The company claims the results have strengthened the project’s potential to become a small‐scale direct shipping […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Tawana Resources (ASX: TAW) has encountered a number of high-grade, coarse itabirite intersections over the Zaway prospect at the company’s Mofe Creek iron ore project in Liberia. Tawana recently completed a program of 32 reverse circulation (RC) hole at the Zaway prospect. Results from intersections over two kilometre strike, up to 200 […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Hot Chili (ASX: HCH) has enjoyed continued exploration success at the company’s Productora copper project in Chile, claiming the discovery of another zone of copper-gold mineralisation. Hot Chili reported that its latest drilling results from Productora have outlined a new copper-gold zone, known as Rocoto, located immediately below the planned central pit […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: An impressive field of nine small to mid-cap miners has been announced as nominees for the 2014 Craig Oliver Award. The award is presented each year at the RIU Explorers Conference in Fremantle to recognise the achievements of a small to mid-cap Australian mining company, which has excelled in several areas of […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: What are the elements that make a significant mineral discovery? On the day before the Explorers Conference kicks off in Fremantle, the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) is conducting a one-day seminar, which will provide participants with real-world case studies of world class discoveries within Australia and internationally. The CET is a […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Each week any number of junior exploration plays set out to drill their ground. Here’s a small selection of what’s been happening this week. Latin Resources ready to drill at Ilo Norte Latin Resources Limited (ASX: LRS) announced two drill drill rigs have been mobilised rigs to the company’s Ilo Norte project […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Cradle Resources (ASX: CXX) has received the results from a recently-completed Scoping Study on the company’s Panda Hill niobium project, located in south western Tanzania. According to Cradle the Scoping Study results have indicated potential for a highly economic project generating substantial cash flow at current niobium prices for a relatively low […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Doray Minerals (ASX: DRM) has extended the recently identified Suzie Zone at the company’s Andy Well gold mine outside Meekatharra in Western Australia. Doray has completed an underground diamond drill hole testing the footwall sequence to the Wilber Lode, which has intersected high-grade gold mineralisation from the interpreted northern extension of the […]
THE INSIDE STORY: South Australian uranium and South American copper form the basis of Alliance Resources’ current focus. The flagship project of Alliance Resources (ASX: AGS) is its 25 per cent interest in the Four Mile uranium project located 550 kilometres north of Adelaide in South Australia. Quasar Resources has a 75 per cent interest […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Octagonal Resources (ASX: ORS) has intersected a swathe of high-grade gold while carrying out mine development on the 1100 level of the Alliance South deposit at the company’s Maldon gold project in Victoria. Underground mine development work being undertaken by Octagonal has intersected high-grade gold in the Eaglehawk Reef at the Alliance […]
