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Uranium: more supply shut-downs inevitable
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamGAVIN WENDT: Despite the hit that the uranium business initially took with respect to sentiment in the wake of the Fukushima earthquake back in 2011, the conundrum remains the same: the world has few alternatives in terms of substantial, reliable base-load power generation. Realistically, in a world with burgeoning populations in emerging countries and an […]
Core Exploration takes control at Albarta
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Core Exploration (ASX: CXO) has completed tenement acquisitions moving the company to 100 per cent ownership of exploration interests at the Albarta project, located in the IOCG Aileron Province, northeast of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. “Given the outstanding exploration results received to date across our Albarta tenements, management decided it […]
Azure Minerals hits further encouragement at Cascada
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Azure Minerals (ASX: AZS) has received more good news from recent drilling conducted at the company’s Promontorio copper-gold-silver project in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. The drilling has returned high-grade copper extensions to the Cascada deposit while gold was encountered from drilling near the Cascada copper-gold-silver deposit. Cascada drill hole location […]
Sheffield Resources identifies Fraser Range Ni-Cu-Co
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Sheffield Resources (ASX: SFX) has received results from a second phase of aircore drilling completed in December 2013 at the company’s Red Bull nickel-copper project in the Fraser Range Nickel Province of Western Australia. Sheffield carried out the Phase 2 aircore drilling program to follow-up its Phase 1 program, which identified the […]
Ord River updates Plutonic Resource
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Ord River Resources (ASX: ORD) has completed a review of the existing K2 resource model at the company’s Plutonic gold project in Western Australia. The review involved remodelling the mineralisation envelopes at a higher cut-off grade in order to more accurately reflect a selective, underground, mining scenario. According to the company the […]
Renaissance confirms shallow growth potential at Okvau
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Renaissance Minerals (ASX: RNS) has received the first results from a recently commenced drilling program conducted at the company’s Okvau gold project in Cambodia. The drilling was undertaken to test for north-east strike extensions beyond the project’s current 1.2 million ounce Okvau resource estimate. The recent program consisted six holes (four RC […]
Talga Resources review confirms Swedish copper
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Talga Resources (ASX: TLG) has completed a review of historic drill data from one of the company’s Swedish mineral projects. Talga claims the review has confirmed the existence of a new copper-gold play in close proximity to Europe’s largest operating copper-gold mine, the 2,760 million tonnes at 0.17 per cent copper, 0.1 […]
Resource IPOs lose their shine
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Although not entirely extinct, it would appear the small resource company Initial Public Offering (IPO) could soon be included on the endangered species list. A recent investigation into the 2013 IPO activity on the boards of the Australian Securities Exchange has concluded there was a definite shift towards larger IPOs last year. […]
Carpentaria Exploration increases Advene potential
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Carpentaria Exploration (ASX: CAP) has received results from a recently-completed geochemical soil survey covering the greater Josephine Moulder (JM) prospect area at the company’s 100 per cent-owned Advene project northwest of Wagga Wagga in central New South Wales. Carpentaria claims to have identified a new gold anomaly at the western edge […]
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it’s off to work we go
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Each week any number of junior exploration plays set out to begin exploration on their ground. Here’s a small selection of what’s been happening this week. Monax commences Millers Creek gravity survey Monax Mining (ASX: MOX) has commenced a detailed ground gravity survey at the Millers Creek designated project (DP). The Millers […]