Entries by Wally Graham

ASX extended hours suits big end of town

PETER HAYES: As we approach the end of what can only be described as a fairly disappointing financial year, I can only hope that the powers that be in that venerable institution, the Australian Securities Exchange, desist with their fanciful notion of extending the opening hours of the Exchange. My prediction is that if they […]

Quarter Time Wrap

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: The Roadhouse’s inbox was inundated with quarterly reports this season so we thought we’d take a random selection and see what the companies had to say. Ventnor Resources During the quarter base metals exploration play Ventnor Resources commenced a fourth phase of drilling at the company’s Thaduna and Green Dragon copper project. […]

Monax draws on graphite results from Waddikee

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Monax Mining has received encouraging coarse graphite flake results from geochemical assays conducted on samples collected at the Argent and Stanley prospects on the company’s Waddikee project, located on the central Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.   Location of the Waddikee project, central Eyre Peninsula, highlighting other graphite and iron projects within […]

Bruce Franzen – Riedel Resources

ONE OFF THE WOOD: A portfolio encompassing prospective tenements in Western Australia and Burkina Faso gives Riedel Resources executive director Bruce Franzen plenty to talk about and he perched on a stool in the front bar this week to do just that. Riedel has a portfolio consisting of projects in Western Australia and Burkina Faso. […]

Exterra reports early high-grade drilling results

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Gold-focused exploration and development company, Exterra Resources has received some impressive high-grade assay results from the first two holes of an eight hole program of diamond drilling being carried out at the Second Fortune mine situated within the company’s Linden gold project in Western Australia. Exterra has completed three holes so far […]

Endeavour expands drill program at Nzema

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Endeavour Mining has expanded the sulphide drilling program currently underway at the company’s 90 per cent-owned Nzema gold mine in south-western Ghana. The expansion to the drilling program follows a review of drilling results the company has received to date, the delivery of the Conceptual Trade-off Study by AMEC Minproc and initial […]

Trafford kicks off WA exploration

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Trafford Resources has commenced exploration activities at the company’s Twin Peaks iron ore project, which covers over 20 kilometres of, what the company considers to be, a highly prospective, north-south striking, Banded Iron Formation (BIF) belt approximately 200km northeast of Geraldton in Western Australia. Trafford may earn up to 80 per cent […]

West African extends Moktedu by 10km

THE DRILL SERGEANT: West African Resources has received all results from a program of auger drilling conducted on the Zam Sud, Sondo and Sondo Sud permits situated on the company’s 100 per cent-owned gold projects in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The company has interpreted the results to have has extended its Moktedu prospect by 3.2 […]

Gascoyne widens high-grade gold at Zone 126

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Gascoyne Resources has received assay results from a further 4 diamond core holes targeting extensions to high-grade mineralisation at the Zone 126 deposit, situated within the company’s 100 per cent-owned Glenburgh gold project in Western Australia. Gascoyne said the drilling has continued to extend the mineralisation both along strike, down plunge and […]

White Cliffs identifies more Lake Johnston targets

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: White Cliff Minerals has identified a number of new Maggie Hays style nickel sulphide targets at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Lake Johnston project in Western Australia. The targets were identified by a geophysical survey White Cliff recently conducted at the Mount Gordon prospect, located 20 kilometres south of Norilsk’s operating nickel […]