ONE OFF THE WOOD: The Roadhouse sat down with Ironbark Zinc managing director Jonathan Downes this week to catch up on all the company news from the northern hemisphere. You have released some good news recently regarding a $50 million facility from Glencore. The Glencore facility is an interesting new model for the company where […]
Although mining companies operating in Australia are sometimes accused of not pumping enough money into greenfields exploration, Mark Fraser finds they are not exactly sitting on their hands when it comes to promoting the search for new ore bodies in frontier terrains. Through the Deep Exploration Technologies Co-operative Research Centre (DET CRC), a number of […]
Iron is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and is usually found in ore deposits as an oxide. There are many iron minerals, but the only ones of worldwide importance are hematite (Fe2O3), magnetite (Fe3O4) and limonite (FeOOH). Other ores such as chamosite or pyrite are no longer important for iron production. […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Silver Lake Resources has claimed a high-grade copper discovery has been made at its Hollandaire project, situated within the Eelya Complex, part of the company’s Murchison project located 600 kilometres North of Perth. Silver Lake has received assay results for seven holes of a recently completed nine drill hole program, which demonstrated […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Jameson Resources has entered into a sale and option agreement with Saturn Minerals to acquire an initial 10 per cent interest, with an option to earn up to a further 50 per cent interest, in the Red Earth coal project located in eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. The Acquisition is being carried out through […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Southern Crown Resources has completed a JORC compliant resource estimate on the soil target at its Xiluvo Rare Earth Element (REE) project in Mozambique. The company has estimated an Indicated category Mineral Resource of 1.1 million tonnes at 2.05 per cent total rare earth oxides (TREO) has been estimated at a cut-off […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Burkina Faso-focused gold exploration play Ampella Mining has announced an independently verified upgrade to its gold resource estimate for the Konkera prospect, located within the company’s Batie West gold project. The company said the Mineral Resource has been prepared in accordance with the JORC Code and is an estimation of gold for […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources has claimed to have discovered a new bonanza gold zone within the Tennant Creek Mineral Field. New diamond drilling carried out by the company on the eight kilometre long Gecko structural corridor at Tennant Creek has hit high‐grade gold mineralisation with bonanza gold grades of up to 93.7 grams of […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Coventry Resources has completed a recalculation of the mineral resource estimate for its Cameron gold deposit in Canada. The recalculation is the result of additional 29,170 metres of new drilling data being integrated with 84,541 metres of historic drilling data. Location of Coventry’s Cameron and Rainy River Gold Projects in NW […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Perth-based Mongolia-focused iron ore exploration play Haranga Resources has acquired a further 20 per cent interest in the Joint Venture company that holds the five exploration licences comprising the Selenge iron ore project. Haranga Resources now holds an 80 per cent interest in the Selenge iron ore project in Mongolia where significant […]
