THE BOURSE WHISPERER: West Africa-focused Tawana Resources has acquired, what it described to be, “a highly prospective land package” located in Sinoe County, south-eastern Liberia. Called the Sinoe project, the acquisition is considered by Tawana to be an opportunity for the company to explore prospective Birimian geology in Liberia along strike to an emerging gold […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Bulk minerals explorer Sheffield Resources has announced a maiden Resource estimate for its Yandanooka heavy mineral sand (HMS) project located in the Mid West region of Western Australia. The estimate has come in at 1.84 million tonnes of contained heavy mineral (71.75 million tonne at 2.6 per cent heavy mineral in Indicated […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Recent drilling carried out by Ark Mines has provided the New South Wales-focused polymetallic exploration play with encouragement. The drilling was undertaken on the company’s 100% owned Mt. Dijou project at Bald Hills and has returned gold intercepts at shallow depths. The 500 metre Reverse Circulation program was designed to test shallow […]
The understanding of the Liquefied Natural Gas industry by Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett came under scrutiny this week. Barnett told ABC Radio’s AM program there were two ways LNG could be transported around the country. “You can pipe it – that’s possible but probably the more expensive option,” he said. “What Australia could well […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Pioneer Resources has announced a maiden JORC compliant in-situ Mineral Resource estimate for its Mt Jewell project, located 55 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The Resource estimate is for 3.78 million tonnes at a grade of 1.53 grams per tonne gold for 185,600 ounces of gold. Of this total, 131,600 […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Brazil-focused iron ore exploration play Centaurus Metals has locked-in an exclusive option over a manganese project in the State of Minas Gerais, located in the south-east of the Latin-American country. Centaurus said the deal places it in the position to further expand the company’s regional manganese exploration portfolio and to also develop […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: The commodity focus of Phosphate Australia has shifted following the company’s acquisition of 100% of the historic Tuckanarra gold project in the gold producing Murchison district of Western Australia. Under the terms of the acquisition agreement with vendor Gold and Mineral Resources, Phosphate Australia will pay consideration for 100% of the Tuckanarra […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Minerals exploration company Helix Resources has received the results from the maiden reverse circulation drill program on its Olary project in northeast South Australia. Helix said the results from the eleven hole program have given it confidence that a large iron ore system is present at Olary. Better results from the drilling […]
While on tour at Diggers & Dealers, The Roadhouse was the guest of Gold Road Resources to visit its Yamarna Belt project, located 140 kilometres east of Laverton on the eastern edge of the Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia. The company’s executive chairman Ian Murray called into The Roadhouse on his way home for a quick […]
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: Resignation of Independent Directors […]
