THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Before handing out the gongs for Queensland Explorer and Miner of the Year 2012, Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Andrew Cripps outlined the recently-elected state government’s dedication to the local resources industry. He told the Brisbane Mining 2012 conference the Newman LNP government was committed to putting Queensland at the […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Aphrodite Gold (ASX: AQQ) has kicked off the next phase of Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling at the company’s Aphrodite gold project located 65 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The company currently has a Pre-Feasibility Study (PFS) for development of the project in progress having completed a positive Scoping Study earlier this […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Fertiliser development company Aguia Resources (ASX: AGR) has received encouraging drilling results from the company’s Três Estradas phosphate project located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. The company completed a program of drilling in October consisting 21 holes of diamond drilling totalling 4,016 metres and 105 reverse […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Winmar Resources (ASX: WFE) has completed its earn-in requirements under the Farm-in and Joint Venture Agreement with Cazaly Iron, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cazaly Resources (ASX: CAZ), for the Hamersley iron project. Winmar has informed its JV partner Cazaly that it is of the view it has now earned its […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: YTC Resources (ASX: YTC) has reached an agreement with Straits Resources (ASX: SRQ) to acquire 100 per cent of the Doradilla project in north-western New South Wales. Prior to the Agreement, YTC had been earning an initial 70 per cent in the Doradilla project from Straits Resources through sole funding exploration expenditure […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Reconnaissance soil sampling conducted by Echo Resources (ASX: EAR) at the company’s Yandal project has identified a 5.5 kilometre long gold-in-soil anomaly at the Marvin prospect. The Marvin prospect is located 85km south of Echo’s Julius gold discovery, and 3km west of open-cut workings at the Mt McClure-Bronzewing gold mine, in central […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Rex Minerals (ASX: Rex) has announced the results of a recently completed Pre-feasibility Study conducted on the company’s 100 per cent-owned Hillside project in South Australia. Rex said the PFS results have confirmed the potential for the project to hold a production profile 70,000 tonnes per annum copper for a period of […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Australian base metals company Ventnor Resources (ASX: VRX) has announced a maiden JORC-compliant Resource estimate for the company’s Thaduna/Green Dragon copper project, located 170 kilometres north of Meekatharra, Western Australia, in the Doolgunna district. The Thaduna/Green Dragon copper project is situated 40km east of Sandfire Resources’ (ASX: SFR) DeGrussa project. A total […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Red Mountain Mining (ASX: RMX) has acquired a suite of advanced gold projects and copper gold tenements in the Philippines from Mindoro Resources (ASX: MDO). The acquisition covers a 100 per cent direct and indirect interest in the Batangas gold project and 75 per cent direct and indirect interest in the Tapian […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Corazon Mining (ASX: CZN) has secured an option to earn up to 75 per cent of Border Exploration, which owns 100 per cent of the Top Up Rise (TUR) project in the Gibson Desert region of north-eastern Western Australia. Announcing the deal Corazon described the project to be prospective for large gold-copper […]
