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Pioneer encouraged by Acra drilling
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Pioneer Resources (ASX: PIO) has been encouraged by recent drilling activities at the company’s 100 per cent-held Acra gold project, located north east of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The company has received results from the Carmelia South Prospect where a program of 22 shallow aircore holes tested for gold mineralisation. Cross […]
Browns Range given environmental thumbs-up
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Northern Minerals (ASX: NTU) has been granted environmental approval by the Western Australian Government for the proposed mine and ore processing facility at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Browns Range heavy rare earths project. The company said the granting of environmental approval paves the way for the development of the project, which […]
Flinders increases Blackjack deposit Mineral Resource
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Flinders Mines (ASX: FMS) has announced an update to the Mineral Resource at the Blackjack deposit at the company’s wholly-owned Pilbara Iron Ore Project (PIOP) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The update has resulted from a program of infill drilling program undertaken by Flinders at the PIOP this year, which […]
Core hits more silver at Inkheart
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Core Exploration (ASX: CXO) has been impressed by the initial silver and lead results it has received from the first batch of assays from a recent reverse circulation (RC) drilling campaign at the company’s Inkheart prospect in the Northern Territory. Core said the drilling has encountered silver and lead intersections with values […]
Triton claims world’s largest graphite-vanadium deposit
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Triton Minerals (ASX: TON) has released the maiden JORC 2012-compliant Mineral Resource estimate for the Nicanda Hill graphite deposit at the company’s Balama North project in Mozambique. The Nicanda Hill maiden Mineral Resource has come in at 1.457 billion tonnes at 10.7 per cent total grapitic carbon (TGC) and 0.27 per cent […]
PharmAust human drug trial advancing to second patient
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE ROADHOUSE PHARMACY: PharmAust Limited (ASX: PAA) is moving towards the treatment of the second patient in its ‘First in Man’ trial with the company’s anti-cancer drug PPL-1. Following the approval of the study by the Royal Adelaide Hospital Research Ethics Committee in April, PharmAust commenced recruitment and treatment of the first patient with PPL-1. […]
Talisman Mining to acquire nickel project
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Talisman Mining (ASX: TLM) has reached a binding agreement with Xstrata Nickel Australasia Operations Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Glencore, to acquire the Sinclair nickel project in Western Australia. Talisman will pay $8 million plus a deferred $2 million payment contingent upon a recommencement of mine production at Sinclair, which was placed […]
Tiger finalises 100% acquisition of Kipoi copper project
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Tiger Resources (ASX: TGS) has completed the acquisition of the remaining 40 per cent shareholding in Société d’Exploitation de Kipoi SA (SEK). SEK is the owner of the Kipoi copper project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The acquisition follows the drawdown of US$50 million against a finance facility the company […]
Elemental drills encouragement at Dougou-Yangala
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Elemental Minerals (ASX: ELM) has received results from its Phase 1B drilling program recently carried out in the Dougou-Yangala area (part of the company’s Sintoukola potash project) in the Republic of Congo (RoC). At the Yangala sylvinite prospect drilling of hole ED_03 returned Hangingwall Seam sylvinite of: 59.48 per cent potassium chloride […]
Rox scores bonza copper results at Bonya
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Rox Resources (ASX: RXL) has reported promising assay results from recent reverse circulation (RC) drilling undertaken at the Bonya copper project, located east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. According to Rox it has encountered a massive copper sulphide mineralised body in three drill holes at the Bonya Mine prospect from […]