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Silver Lake makes copper discovery
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Silver Lake Resources has claimed a high-grade copper discovery has been made at its Hollandaire project, situated within the Eelya Complex, part of the company’s Murchison project located 600 kilometres North of Perth. Silver Lake has received assay results for seven holes of a recently completed nine drill hole program, which demonstrated […]
Iron Ore for Dummies
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamIron is the fourth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust and is usually found in ore deposits as an oxide. There are many iron minerals, but the only ones of worldwide importance are hematite (Fe2O3), magnetite (Fe3O4) and limonite (FeOOH). Other ores such as chamosite or pyrite are no longer important for iron production. […]
Guiding deeper exploration
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamAlthough mining companies operating in Australia are sometimes accused of not pumping enough money into greenfields exploration, Mark Fraser finds they are not exactly sitting on their hands when it comes to promoting the search for new ore bodies in frontier terrains. Through the Deep Exploration Technologies Co-operative Research Centre (DET CRC), a number of […]
Jonathan Downes – Ironbark Zink
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamONE OFF THE WOOD: The Roadhouse sat down with Ironbark Zinc managing director Jonathan Downes this week to catch up on all the company news from the northern hemisphere. You have released some good news recently regarding a $50 million facility from Glencore. The Glencore facility is an interesting new model for the company where […]
Poseidon submits mining proposal
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Poseidon Nickel has submitted a detailed Mining Proposal for the Mount Windarra Mine to the Department of State Development of the Western Australian Government. The proposal is seeking approval to both restart mining operations at Mount Windarra and to build a processing plant on the site. The proposal includes mining up to […]
Haranga acquires more of Mongolian project
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Perth-based Mongolia-focused iron ore exploration play Haranga Resources has acquired a further 20 per cent interest in the Joint Venture company that holds the five exploration licences comprising the Selenge iron ore project. Haranga Resources now holds an 80 per cent interest in the Selenge iron ore project in Mongolia where significant […]
Coventry recalculates Cameron Resource
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Coventry Resources has completed a recalculation of the mineral resource estimate for its Cameron gold deposit in Canada. The recalculation is the result of additional 29,170 metres of new drilling data being integrated with 84,541 metres of historic drilling data. Location of Coventry’s Cameron and Rainy River Gold Projects in NW […]
Emmerson hits Tennant Creek gold
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources has claimed to have discovered a new bonanza gold zone within the Tennant Creek Mineral Field. New diamond drilling carried out by the company on the eight kilometre long Gecko structural corridor at Tennant Creek has hit high‐grade gold mineralisation with bonanza gold grades of up to 93.7 grams of […]
Dragon Mountain sells off Chinese assets
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Dragon Mountain Gold has announced that its majority owned subsidiary, Warrior Advance Pty Ltd has entered into a conditional agreement to sell 100 per cent of the issued shares in its subsidiary that holds the Lixian gold project in China. The project is to be sold to ZiJin Mining Group Co Ltd […]
Minotaur to trial new geophysical survey
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Minotaur Exploration has received a grant of $62,500 under the South Australian Government’s PACE 2020 Initiative. The company will use the funding from the grant to undertake an innovative 3-dimensional magnetotelluric (MT) survey at its Aphrodite iron oxide copper-gold target in South Australia. The Aphrodite target is located 34 kilometres southeast of […]