THE CONFERENCE CALLER: ABC Refinery global head institutional markets Nicholas Frappell held delegates’ attention at the 2023 RIU Explorers Conference as he provided a positive but tempered gold outlook. By Ngaire McDiarmid “Predicting market direction is always a chance to get things wildly wrong,” he cautioned. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will continue to reverberate through […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: De Grey Mining (ASX: DEG) maintained its RIU Explorers Conference pace by reporting the latest resource extension and infill drilling results from the Diucon deposit at the company’s Hemi gold discovery in Western Australia. According to De Grey the new results at Diucon, which is located in the west of Hemi, have […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: High-grade gold results at the former Oroya mine indicate the further potential at Alto Metals’ (ASX: AME) Sandstone gold project, managing director Matthew Bowles told Resources Roadhouse on the sidelines of the 2023 RIU Explorers Conference. A day earlier, Alto had announced the results, including 1m at 37.1 grams per tonne gold, […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Encounter Resources (ASX: ENR) is onto an “encouraging start” for critical minerals at its Junction lithium project in the Northern Territory, managing director Will Robinson said on the sidelines of the 2023 RIU Explorers Conference. By Ngaire McDiarmid On the eve of the event, Encounter reported that rock chip assays had confirmed […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) managing director Tony Rovira says the first lithium drill result from the polymetallic Andover project this week is very significant. The company reported a mineralised pegmatite intersection, on the eve of the 2023 RIU Explorers Conference, of 7.2 metres at 1.51 per cent lithium oxide (Li2O), including a […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Caspin Resources (ASX: CPN) has described a “two for one deal” at its Mount Squires project, to Resources Roadhouse on the sidelines of the 2023 RIU Explorers Conference. By Ngaire McDiarmid Caspin announced on Monday it had identified more gold targets including a 2km long gold in soil anomaly on the Handpump […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Dreadnought Resources’ (ASX: DRE) rare earths exploration target announced this week is conservative, managing director Dean Tuck told Resources Roadhouse on the sidelines of the 2023 RIU Explorers Conference. By Ngaire McDiarmid Dreadnought recently unveiled an exploration target of 50-100 million tonnes at 0.9-1.3 per cent total rare earth oxide (TREO) for […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: De Grey Mining (ASX: DEG) announced drilling results on the eve of the RIU Explorers Conference from the company’s 10.6 million ounce Mallina gold project in the Pilbara of Western Australia. By Ngaire McDiarmid The results included drilling undertaken at the Withnell South target of 20 metres at 1.62 grams per tonne […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Although costs are rising, Australia remains the cheapest place to build a gold mine, according to data Canaccord Genuity senior mining analyst Paul Howard showed the RIU Explorers Conference. By Ngaire McDiarmid Speaking to a standing room only crowd on the opening day of the conference, Howard put this down to efficiencies […]
THE CONFERENCE CALLER: Mid-tier miner and takeover target OZ Minerals (ASX: OZL) impressed the judges to win the 2023 Craig Oliver Award at the RIU Explorers Conference. By Ngaire McDiarmid The annual award is presented in memory of industry stalwart Craig Oliver, who died in June 2010 when the Sundance Resources plane tragically crashed in […]
