THE DRILL SERGEANT: Victorian gold explorer Navarre Minerals has confirmed strike extension of three lines of quartz reef structures at its Tandarra prospect, located 40 kilometres north of Bendigo in Victoria. Navarre recently completed an 18 hole air‐core drilling program at its Bendigo North gold project, which returned a 90 per cent hit rate targeting […]
JETT RINK: Australian oil & gas exploration play Jupiter Energy has announced that it the acquisition of 3D seismic has commenced for the recent extension to its Block 31 acreage, located in the Mangistau Basin in Kazakhstan. The Block 31 permit has a 10 year exploration licence (initial 6 years + two possible extensions of […]
JETT RINK: Queensland-based energy company Carbon Energy is continuing to move forward at its Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) project at Bloodwood Creek, near Dalby in Queensland. Carbon Energy laid claim to an Australian first in power generation earlier this month by producing electricity from syngas using its unique process of UCG, which has been developed […]
JETT RINK: Oil and Gas exploration and development company, Beach Energy has secured two rigs, an Ensign#65 and Ensign#16, for its unconventional shale gas appraisal program in the Nappamerri Trough of the Cooper Basin for 2012. The drilling program that will utilise the two rigs will consist of both horizontal and vertical wells across the […]
JETT RINK: ADX Energy, as operator, announced that the Sidi Dhaher-1 well in the Chorbane licence, onshore Tunisia, has spudded. Sidi Dhaher-1 has a planned total depth of 2,168 metres and is expected to take about 33 days to drill. Additional time will be required in the event of formation testing. The Sidi Dhaher prospect […]
OUT AND ABOUT: Opening the Africa Down Under conference in Perth, Special Minister for State Gary Gray told the audience Africa was destined to be the continent of the twenty-first century. “The Africa of today is a vastly different continent from even ten years ago,” Gray told delegates that had gathered from around the globe. […]
OUT AND ABOUT: The clean energy sector has come to prominence through the Federal Government’s Clean Energy Initiative. It may seem as if it is a new sector but the reality is that it has been around a lot longer than what many of us may realise. Mention the clean energy sector to most people […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: The regular game of musical chairs continues within the boardrooms across the resources industry. The Whisperer pokes his head down the corridors of power to take a quick look at some of the chairs to have recently been vacated and to find out which ones have been filled: Director appointment Venturex Resources […]
Kalgoorlie Mining Company has confirmed delivery of 10,507 dry tonnes of ore from its Bullant gold mine with recovered gold of 1,241 ounces from what is the company’s first shipment of ore to Kanowna Belle. This represents an average grade of 3.95 grams per tonne for the development ore at a provisional recovery of 93%, […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Ampella Mining has struck high-grade gold mineralisation from first pass deep drilling program at its Batie West project in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Ampella said the deep drilling program at Konkera North has potential to add a substantial increase to the current 2.2 million ounce JORC Code Compliant Konkera gold Resource (Indicated […]
