THE DRILL SERGEANT: Horseshoe Metals has finished a third drilling program at the Rinaldi prospect situated on the company’s Kumarina copper project in Western Australia. Rinaldi prospect drill hole location plan. Source: Company announcement Seven diamond drill holes were completed last week for a total of 1,134 metres of drilling, with the holes […]
THE DRILL SREGEANT: Blackthorn Resources has extended its run of good news with the reporting of further high-grade copper intersections from a Phase 5 drilling program being conducted at the company’s Mumbwa copper-gold project in Zambia. The latest highlights from the drilling program have come from drill hole S36-038 and include: 223 metres at 4.67 […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Rex Minerals has continued positive news flow of high-grade copper results from infill and extension drilling underway at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Hillside copper project in South Australia. The company said the recent results have broadened its mine development options with assay results from the latest drill holes at Hillside demonstrating […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: South Boulder Mines has announced an updated JORC Code / NI43-101-compliant Mineral Resource Estimate for the company’s Colluli potash project in the African nation of Eritrea. The resource at the Colluli project now stands at 1.08 billion tonnes at 18 per cent potassium oxide for 194 million tonnes of contained potash. The […]
ONE OFF THE WOOD: Rox Resources managing director Ian Mulholland popped into the front bar this week to fill us in on the company’s exciting exploration portfolio. The company is currently working away of the Mt Fisher gold project in Western Australia; and the Myrtle zinc / lead Marqua phosphate projects in the Northern Territory. […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: A maiden drilling program conducted by Talisman Mining at the company’s Halloween project in Western Australia has quickly delivered a series of encouraging gold intercepts. Results from the 2,158 metre RC drilling program include: – 10 metres at 3.56 grams per tonne gold from 84 metres, including 2 metres at 4.9 grams […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Engineering, property services and asset management and maintenance provider UGL Limited has been awarded approximately $370 million in new projects across Australia. The company said that more than $270 million of the new contracts are focused within the resources sector. UGL has been given the task of constructing the new Solomon mine […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Victorian gold exploration play Navarre Minerals has announced further high-grade gold results from a Reverse Circulation (“RC”) drill program currently underway at the Tandarra prospect, part of the company’s Bendigo North project, located 40 kilometres north of Bendigo. Highlights from the current drilling campaign include: – 4 metres at 9.2 grams per […]
OUT AND ABOUT: Wikipedia describes the iron ore hub of Port Hedland as, “the highest tonnage port in Australia”. It also claims it to be the, largest town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Anybody, who upon reading the second of these descriptions decided to visit Port Hedland would probably understand why Wikipedia is […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Adelaide Resources has claimed confirmation of a copper / gold discovery at the Paskeville prospect situated within the Moonta project, located on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia. Recent drilling undertaken at Paskeville returned an un-bottomed intersection of 42 metres at 1.10 per cent copper and 0.11 grams per tonne gold, including […]
