DIGGERS AND DEALERS: In During a short cab ride The Roadhouse discovered not all the deals at Diggers & Dealers are done under the big marquee. Half way to my destination my driver opened the centre console, pulled out a small black box and said, “Have a look at that.” He had handed me, with […]
DIGGERS AND DEALERS: Diggers & Dealers wouldn’t be Diggers & Dealers without a juicy rumour doing the rounds so The Roadhouse thought it might as well start one. Our inspiration stemmed from the opening day’s announcement of the takeover of Integra Mining by Silver Lake Resources. It got us thinking. Who would be the next […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Latin Resources has increased the total JORC compliant Inferred Resources at the company’s Guadalupito iron and Heavy Mineral Sands project in Peru. The resource has increased 160 per cent from 119 million tonnes at 5.7 per cent Heavy Mineral in situ for 6.8Mt of contained heavy mineral to 393Mt at 4.5 per […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Blackham Resources is conducting a review of nickel potential at the company’s wholly-owned Fraser Range project following the recent discovery of the Nova deposit by Sirius Resources. Blackham’s Fraser Range project lies approximately 20 kilometres from Nova, east of Norseman in Western Australia. Blackham conducted drilling at Zanthus in January 2011 […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Bligh Resources has entered into a Joint Venture Deed of Agreement with Chinese company Jiaocheng Yiwang Ferroalloy over the company’s 100 per cent-owned Grenfell project in central New South Wales. Yiwang is one of China’s largest producers and exporters of manganese alloys. “We are very pleased to have agreed terms with one […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Southern Gold has signed a Letter of Intent with Trafford Resources that will result in the latter purchasing the former’s 51 per cent interest in the Western Gawler Craton JV with Dominion Gold Operations (a 100 per cent owned subsidiary of Kingsgate Consolidated) and its 100 per cent-owned Challenger West tenement. “Trafford […]
DIGGERS AND DEALERS 2012: Before Diggers & Dealers officially kicked off, The Roadhouse visited the Kalgoorlie-based operations of gold producer Silver Lake Resources. We were treated a quick tour around the company’s Lakewood processing facility. What we weren’t treated to, however, was any insight or inclination into what the company was set to announce at […]
DIGGERS AND DEALERS 2012: Like Christmas the Kalgoorlie-based mining conference, Diggers and Dealers rolls around on an annual basis with forum chairman Barry Eldridge greeting delegates and opening the week’s festivities. However, unlike Christmas, Eldridge never disappoints. This year he again loaded up his slingshot full of rocks representing all commodities mined in the region […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: West African Resources has intercepted primary sulphide mineralisation at depth at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Sartenga copper-gold prospect, situated within the Boulsa project in Burkina Faso. Results include: – 45.5 metres at 1.1 grams per tonne gold equivalent (0.5g/t gold, 0.3 per cent copper, 315 parts per million molybdenum), including 15.5 […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Exterra Resources has increased the high-grade Second Fortune lode Resource at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Linden gold project. The increase follows the recent completion of a nine hole diamond drilling program. The combined Indicated and Inferred Resource for the Second Fortune Main lode and associated hangingwall and footwall lodes at a […]
