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Encounter hits new copper target
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Encounter Resources has identified a new large scale copper oxide position to the south of the BM1 prospect. Broad spaced aircore drilling completed in October at the BM7 prospect has identified broad zones of copper/cobalt anomalism with a number of holes ending in mineralisation. The BM1 and BM7 prospects are two of […]
Alan Hopkins – Pan Asia Corporation
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamONE OFF THE WOOD: Pan Asia Corporation chief executive officer Alan Hopkins dropped in recently to tell the Roadhouse how his company is going about developing a coal project in Indonesia. As a coal play located in Indonesia you seem to be off the market radar a bit at the moment. Can you tell […]
Monax sweeps up Chilean iron sands
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Monax Mining has signed an option agreement over an iron sands project in Chile, South America. Under the terms of the agreement, Monax will have 90 days to carry out due diligence on the Huentelauquen iron sand project. Location of Huentelauquen iron sand project, Chile. Source: Company announcement During this period, […]
Potash West increases domestic portfolio
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Potash West has entered into an agreement with Ochre Resources, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Heron Resources. The agreement will allow Potash West to earn a 70 per cent interest in the Langley project, which the company describes as, “A large, potentially glauconite rich, project in Western Australia’s north west”. Langey project […]
Western Desert rings Bing Bong bell
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Western Desert Resources has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Xstrata Zinc to investigate the feasibility of gaining access to the latter’s McArthur River mine loading facility at Bing Bong on the Gulf of Carpentaria. The ability to access the Bing Bong facility would accelerate Western Desert’s plans to ship iron ore […]
Santa delivers early for Integra
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Integra Mining said that recent RC drilling has provided further confirmation of the Santa trend’s potential for an open pit as well as underground production for the Randalls gold project in Western Australia. Additional diamond drilling undertaken at the Cock-eyed Bob prospect has also maintained its delivery of strong results. Results from […]
MRRT gets over the line
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamSo the mining tax, the MRRT, the Mineral Resources Rent Tax, has finally made its way past the finishing post of the chamber of the House of Representatives. The handicappers hadn’t been friendly to MRRT initially, which began the season a long way behind opening price favourite RSPT. RSPT, having been uprooted from the Henry […]
Hastings releases scoping study results
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Hastings Rare Metals has received the results of a recently completed scoping study on its 100 per cent-owned Hastings heavy rare earth project located near Halls Creek in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. The company said that the study results highlight the project’s potential to deliver excellent returns on the back […]
Northern Minerals confirms Browns Range HREE
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Northern Minerals has received final assay results from a Heavy Rare Earth Element (HREE) drilling program carried out at Browns Range, located in northern Western Australia. The company said besides confirming HREE mineralisation at the first four targets at Browns Range, the drilling has returned the highest grades of HREE received to […]
Robust drilling develops Batu Hitam understanding
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Robust Resources has received a string of positive assay results from 21 diamond drill holes from its Batu Hitam prospect area, where the company claims over 90 per cent of holes intersected potentially economic mineralised rock. The company said the exploration drilling program has been useful in expanding its knowledge of the […]