OUT AND ABOUT: There was plenty of action around the booth of copper exploration play Altona Mining today following its announcement of further decent drilling results from its100% owned Roseby copper project near Mt Isa in Queensland. The results came from an ongoing RC drilling program at Roseby and come on the heels of a […]
OUT AND ABOUT: What is akin to making sure your name tag is sewn into your underpants the new Personal Property Securities Act (PPSA) is looming as a danger to resources companies that are unprepared for its introduction. If the mining industry didn’t have enough to worry about with the Minerals Resource Rent Tax and […]
OUT AND ABOUT: There were canapés and Caronas flying between the booths of Southern Cross Goldfields and Western Areas when it was announced that the latter would be acquiring 70 per cent of the former’s nickel rights across much of its tenement portfolio in the Marda and Southern Cross regions of Western Australia. Western Areas […]
OUT AND ABOUT: Not all the news at Diggers & Dealers comes from the companies presenting their power points in the main auditorium. Gold aspirant Panoramic Resources is telling everybody it bumps into at the conference that it plans to bring its recently-acquired Gidgee gold project back into production within three years with a forecasted […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: The Central Bore project of Gold Road Resources continues to act contrarily to its name by continuing to produce exciting results from an ongoing RC and RAB drilling program. Central Bore, along with the Justinian and Hann gold projects, is located on the company’s Yamarna Belt in Western Australia. Gold Road said […]
Diggers & Dealers opens in Kalgoorlie OUT AND ABOUT: From a spectator’s point of view it was something of an anti-climax when Diggers & Dealers forum chairman Barry Eldridge opened this year’s conference. Opening the 2010 conference Eldridge reminded delegates that in its entire history Diggers & Dealers had maintained an arm’s length from federal […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Goldfields producer Saracen Mineral Holdings is set to study high-grade underground mine potential at its Whirling Dervish deposit located adjacent to the Carosue Dam project. Saracen said it has been encouraged by assay results from a recently completed drilling program at Whirling Dervish. The company considers the results suggest significant resource potential […]
OUT AND ABOUT: Gold producer Silver Lake Resources is proudly showing off the fruits of its labours at this year’s Diggers & Dealers conference in Kalgoorlie. The company has commissioned a statue by award winning sculptor William Eicholtz. Silver Lake Resources managing director told The Roadhouse the statue is, “A tribute to the prospectors who […]
The US debt stand-off continues and depending on which expert you listen to, the seriousness of the issue varies. Some claim it’s not such a big deal and that there’s a fair amount of brinkmanship going on. Their belief is that a deal will get done – sometime soon – and things will return to […]
A number of mining industry-related companies are getting behind Bicycles for Humanity. Bicycles for Humanity, or B4H in modern technology speak, describes itself as, “A world-wide, grass roots, volunteer run organisation focused on simple, sustainable empowerment in the developing world”. It does this in the most elementary and practical way – by sending used donated bikes […]
