COMMODITY CAPERS: Mining giant BHP has opened its doors to aspiring exploration companies, especially those in the hunt for copper, nickel and other critical minerals. The major’s new BHP Xplor initiative is a simple way for the company to outsource grassroots exploration by financing juniors with a good tale to tell, but nobody to listen. […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Medallion Metals reported a new initial JORC 2012-compliant Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) at the Gift deposit within the Kundip Mining Centre (KMC) that is part of the company’s Ravensthorpe Gold Project (RGP) in Western Australia. The Gift MRE has come in at 1.26 million tonnes at 1.4 grams per tonne gold for […]
THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Ioneer (ASX: INR) has received Conditional Commitment from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for a proposed loan of up to US$700 million to develop the company’s Rhyolite Ridge lithium boron project. The Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron project is the most advanced undeveloped lithium project in the United States, which the company has […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Galan Lithium announced completion of the company’s 2022 brine pumping test campaign at the HMW Project in Catamarca Province, Argentina. A total of three production pumping wells were completed during the second half of 2022 – two at Pata Pila (PPB-01-21 and PPB-02-22) and one at Rana de Sal (PBRS-01-21) The results […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Black Cat Syndicate (ASX: BC8) provided an updated JORC 2012 Mineral Resource at Coyote Central, part of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Coyote Gold Operation in Western Australia Black Cat has completed the first combined Resource over Coyote Central since 2008 that has increased the total Resources at the Coyote Gold Operation […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Auroch Minerals (ASX: AOU) reported assay results from pegmatite rock chip samples taken at the company’s 80 per cent-owned Kangaroo Hills Lithium Project (KHLP) in Western Australia (Lodestar Minerals 20%). Auroch Minerals said the results achieved had exceeded its expectations, returning 2.37 per cent lithium oxide (Li2O) and 0.17 per cent Li2O. […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Caspin Resources (ASX: CPN) reported on recent activity at the West Musgrave nickel-copper extension at the company’s Mount Squires project in the West Musgrave region of Western Australia. Caspin Resources declared the discovery of surface copper mineralisation along an 8km copper geochemical anomaly in November – now known as the Sienna prospect […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Metal Hawk (ASX: MHK) has a program of diamond drilling underway at the company’s Berehaven nickel project on the outskirts of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Metal Hawk has been carrying out systematic exploration at Berehaven since its discovery of high-grade nickel sulphide in September 2021 at the Commodore prospect, located five kilometres […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Charger Metals (ASX: CHR) has commenced drilling at the company’s Lake Johnston lithium project in Western Australia. Charger Metals reported commencement of a program of up to 40 reverse circulation drill holes testing the Medcalf spodumene prospect where previous fieldwork had identified a spodumene-pegmatite swarm, comprising about 20 anastomosing pegmatite dykes that […]
THE DRILL SERGEANT: Greenstone Resources (ASX: GSR) reported a big gold hit from the company’s Burbanks gold project outside Coolgardie in Western Australia. Greenstone Resources declared a Phase-1 drill campaign it has underway had already returned multiple high-grade drill intersections at Burbanks, including: BBRC371D 7 metres at 57.84 grams per tonne gold from 90m, including […]
