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Voyager discovers more at KM project
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Voyager Resources has claimed a further discovery at its KM copper porphyry project in the South Gobi region of southern Mongolia. Initial drilling on the Gaans prospect at KM has intersected: – 46 metres at 1.1 per cent copper and 14.1 grams per tonne silver from 16 metres; and – 38m at […]
Black Range completes inaugural drilling campaign
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Black Range Minerals has completed its maiden drilling program at the Hansen and Picnic Tree uranium deposits in Colorado, USA. Black Range completed a total of eight diamond core holes at the Hansen deposit for 1,741 metres while a further three diamond core holes for 170 metres were completed at the Picnic […]
ActivEX forms new JV with Coppermoly
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: ActivEX has entered into a new Joint Venture in the Esk Trough area having signed a letter agreement with Coppermoly Limited for it to farm-in to ActivEX’s Esk Trough project. The Esk Trough project is a group of five EPMs located 80 kilometres west of Gympie in South East Queensland. The project […]
Geologists support JORC Code “principles” over “prescription”
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: The Australian Securities Exchange has flagged changes to the way mining companies report Resources to the market. The national body of Australia’s geologists, The Australian Institute of Geoscientists, has said it would prefer to see the ASX adopt a “principles” approach rather than a “prescriptive” approach if there is to be any […]
Newera encouraged by Giant drilling
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Newera Resources said it has been encouraged by the first batch of assay results it has received from to samples taken during a recently conducted aircore (AC) drilling program at the company’s Giant prospect. The Giant prospect is located within the Jailor Bore project in the Gascoyne Region, 250 kilometres northeast of […]
Monax begins drilling Punt Hill
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Monax Mining has commenced drilling at its flagship Punt Hill copper-gold project located within the Olympic iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) province in South Australia. The company has four holes, totalling 3200 metres, planned to test high-priority gravity targets. Three of the four holes will be drilled on the Yeltacowie target where the company […]
Emmerson completes Resource estimation
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Emmerson Resources has announced an Indicated and Inferred JORC Resource estimation at its Gecko and Orlando copper/gold deposits located within the Tennant Creek Mineral Field (TCMF) in the Northern Territory. The new Resource estimation has come in at of 50,800 tonnes of copper and 70,000 ounces of gold. The company said it […]
Terranova begins field work
/in The Bourse Whisperer /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Terranova Minerals has kicked off field based exploration at its Peninsula gold project, located in Norseman, Western Australia. The company said the initial focus for the campaign is to help it gain an understanding of the controls and extent of the gold mineralisation at Peninsula. The company will be utilising Mobile Metal […]
Goldminex sorts PNG drill targets
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Recent trenching work carried out by Goldminex Resources at its Unebu prospect in Papua New Guinea has produced encouraging rock chip copper and gold assays, the company said is typical of porphyry copper-gold deposits. Unebu is one of the company’s eight key prospects located within areas totalling 11 square kilometres that Goldminex […]
Breakaway drills Sandy Creek
/in The Drill Sergeant /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Follow-up drilling conducted by Breakaway Resources at the company’s Sandy Creek copper-gold prospect in North Queensland has returned encouraging copper-gold intersections. The company said it considered the results confirm the continuity of the mineralisation and highlight potential for extensions both along strike and down-dip. Breakaway has received assay results for the first […]