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Mining 2012 opens with a distinct whiff of optimism
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE CONFERENCE CALLER: The Mining 2012 conference in Brisbane was opened with a note of optimism by Patersons Securities research analyst Matthew Trivett. Addressing the first day audience, Trivett said there were many indicators pointing to positivity and of action on the buy side of the market, especially in the small resource stocks area. […]
MRRT puts government folly on display
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamThe MRRT stuff-up has highlighted the ongoing government ignorance of the mining sector. As former Prime Minister John Howard once described us, we’re pretty much ‘relaxed and comfortable.’ For the most part this reference seems fairly innocuous, but politically there is a problem. In terms of the left side of politics the ‘relaxed and comfortable’ […]
Red Mountain acquires Mindoro’s Philippines copper-gold tenements
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Red Mountain Mining (ASX: RMX) has acquired a suite of advanced gold projects and copper gold tenements in the Philippines from Mindoro Resources (ASX: MDO). The acquisition covers a 100 per cent direct and indirect interest in the Batangas gold project and 75 per cent direct and indirect interest in the Tapian […]
Ventnor announces maiden Resource at Thaduna-Green Dragon
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Australian base metals company Ventnor Resources (ASX: VRX) has announced a maiden JORC-compliant Resource estimate for the company’s Thaduna/Green Dragon copper project, located 170 kilometres north of Meekatharra, Western Australia, in the Doolgunna district. The Thaduna/Green Dragon copper project is situated 40km east of Sandfire Resources’ (ASX: SFR) DeGrussa project. A total […]
Rex PFS defines Hillside as largest undeveloped copper project in Australia
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Rex Minerals (ASX: Rex) has announced the results of a recently completed Pre-feasibility Study conducted on the company’s 100 per cent-owned Hillside project in South Australia. Rex said the PFS results have confirmed the potential for the project to hold a production profile 70,000 tonnes per annum copper for a period of […]
Echo identifies large gold anomaly at Yandal
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Reconnaissance soil sampling conducted by Echo Resources (ASX: EAR) at the company’s Yandal project has identified a 5.5 kilometre long gold-in-soil anomaly at the Marvin prospect. The Marvin prospect is located 85km south of Echo’s Julius gold discovery, and 3km west of open-cut workings at the Mt McClure-Bronzewing gold mine, in central […]
Corazon to acquire WA copper –gold project
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Corazon Mining (ASX: CZN) has secured an option to earn up to 75 per cent of Border Exploration, which owns 100 per cent of the Top Up Rise (TUR) project in the Gibson Desert region of north-eastern Western Australia. Announcing the deal Corazon described the project to be prospective for large gold-copper […]
Northern Minerals confirms HRE discoveries at Browns Range
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Northern Minerals (ASX: NTU) has received results from a recent drilling program carried out at the company’s Browns Range project in northern Western Australia. According to the company the drilling has produced some sizeable heavy rare earths (HRE) intersections at new mineralised zones. The exploration program included first pass drilling across a […]
Monteray due to commence drilling Triple 3 project
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Monteray Mining Group (ASX: MRY) has received Program of Works approval to commence an RC drilling program on the company’s Triple 3 project located near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The objective of the 13 hole campaign is to follow up a previous discovery hole drilled in 2004 of 6 metres at 12.75 […]
Renaissance receives multiple high-grade results from Okvau drilling
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Renaissance Minerals (ASX: RNS) has released further drill results from the diamond drilling program at the company’s Okvau gold deposit in Cambodia. The drilling program was primarily focused on step out drilling targeting additional gold mineralisation to increase the existing Okvau gold resource estimate. Okvau gold deposit drill hole collar locations. […]