THE DRILL SERGEANT: Breakaway Resources (ASX: BRW) has received results of a drilling program conducted by its Joint Venture partner Sandfire Resources (ASX: SFR) at the Broader Altia project, located south-east of Cloncurry in north-west Queensland. Breakaway / Sandfire JV area (in blue). Source: Company announcement Sandfire completed a maiden reconnaissance diamond drilling […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Rox Resources (ASX: RXL) has intersected massive to semi-massive and disseminated sulphides with the first diamond hole drilled at the company’s Fisher East nickel sulphide project, located north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The first diamond drill hole at the Camelwood prospect was drilled and intersected six metres of sulphide mineralisation comprising […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Drake Resources (ASX: DRK) has received laboratory analyses for a hole recently drilled at the company’s Granmuren copper-nickel discovery in central Sweden. The hole intersected massive and disseminated sulphide mineralisation down to 250 metres vertical depth with results demonstrating the presence of higher grade nickel-copper mineralisation down dip from previously intersected mineralisation. […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Global Strategic Metals (ASX: GSZ) has been granted a mining licence by the Austrian Mining Authority in respect to the company’s 80 per cent-owned Wolfsberg lithium project located in Carinthia, south of Vienna. The granting of the licence enables the company to comply with its obligation to carry out mining activities on […]
GUEST COMMENTARY: The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia (CME) has told both Federal and State Government’s they need to be careful about implementing recommendations from the Regional Australia Committee report into Fly In-Fly Out (FIFO), warning any changes could have unintended detrimental consequences to industry and communities in Australia. CME chief executive […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Due to retire at the upcoming state election, Norman Moore stopped by the RIU Explorers Conference to say farewell. Since he regained his job as Western Australian Minister for Mines and Petroleum following the election of the Barnett Government four years ago, Norman Moore has been a familiar, and much welcomed face […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: On day one of the RIU Explorers Conference Patersons Securities director of corporate finance Alex Passmore saw a good deal of light shining through from the far end of the tunnel. Passmore told the audience that the past 12 months had provided a number of indications that although resources have under-performed on […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Winner of this year’s Craig Oliver Award was hardly a surprise. The Craig Oliver Award for 2013 was presented at the RIU Explorers Conference to Sirius Resources. Siruis ran home from a select field including: Doray Minerals, Northern Star Resources, Papillion Resources, Phoenix Gold, Regis Resources, and Sandfire Resources. The award was […]
ONE OFF THE WOOD: Ramelius Resources (ASX: RMS) CEO Ian Gordon dropped by to explain that although the company’s logo features a horse it is definitely far from being a one trick pony. Ian, Ramelius Resources is both a gold producer and explorer, however it seems your attention is currently more focused on production […]
GAVIN WENDT: News that the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) had raised a meager $126 million in its first two quarters underlined the farcical nature of the prognostications surrounding the tax on behalf of Treasury and the Federal Government. Not only was it a drop in the ocean compared to the predicted $2 billion windfall […]
