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Elvis has left the building Sept 8
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: The regular game of musical chairs continues within the boardrooms across the resources industry. The Whisperer pokes his head down the corridors of power to take a quick look at some of the chairs to have recently been vacated and to find out which ones have been filled: Company secretary appointment […]
Graphene – the next big commodity?
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamIn my job I tend to spend a bit of time in traffic. I can’t remember where I was, but I clearly remember first hearing about graphene. It was when I was listening to the raido while driving my car. This is not graphite, which was discovered in the early 1500’s in the Cumberland Mountains […]
Gascoyne intersects 35.7g/t gold
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Recent drilling by gold and base metal hopeful Gascoyne Resources has discovered a high-grade quartz vein gold system. The ongoing RC drilling campaign is being undertaken on the South West target area at the company’s 100% owned Glenburgh gold project in Western Australia. The first three RC holes Gascoyne drilled into a […]
Canyon hits shallow gold at Tonbody
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Burkina Faso-focused gold exploration play Canyon Resources has had more good news from its Tonbody project. Canyion has received shallow high-grade gold results a 7,005m reverse circulation (RC) drilling program that was completed in July 2011. Canyon said the most significant aspect of the results is the wide gold intercepts returned from […]
Cortona gets green light for Dargues Reef
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Emerging gold miner Cortona Resources has been given the go-ahead by the NSW Planning Assessment Commission to develop its Dargues Reef gold mine. Not only will Dargues Reef be Australia’s newest gold mine its location, 60 kilometres east of Canberra, makes it the first significant new gold mine to be permitted in […]
Think tank questions industry claims
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamIs the mining industry as important as it thinks it is? A new report doesn’t seem to think so. A new survey, conducted by independent think tank The Australia Institute has found public perceptions regarding the size and significance of the mining industry to the Australian economy to be inaccurate. The survey was conducted as part […]
TNG banks upfront $2M payment
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Australian resources company TNG Limited has received an initial funding injection of $2 million under the terms of a binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with Jiangsu Eastern China Non-Ferrous Metals Investment Holding Company (ECE). The $2 million injection has been paid to TNG through a loan facility by a private company […]
Scandinavian offshoot signs agreement
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE BOURSE WHISPERER: Kiruna Iron AB, the wholly owned subsidiary of ASX-listed Scandinavian Resources, has entered into a cooperation agreement with Boliden Mineral AB. The agreement covers the Lannavaara Permits located approximately 70 kilometres north-east of Kiruna, in the Norrbotten Region of northern Sweden. Boliden is a leading European metals company focused mainly on zinc […]
Heavy REE from Browns Range
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Drilling at the Browns Range project of Northern Minerals in northern Western Australia has delivered positive Heavy Rare Earth Element (HREE) results, which have confirmed and extended HREE mineralisation. Results from the drilling have indicated several Total Rare Earth Oxide (TREO) intersections in excess of one per cent. The assays are from […]
Drilling results encourage Venturex
/in Uncategorized /by Wally GrahamTHE DRILL SERGEANT: Venturex Resources has received encouraging results from exploration drilling currently underway at its Whim Creek copper mine project in Western Australia. The drilling is being conducted approximately one kilometre to the west of the company’s existing Mons Cupri copper-zinc deposit, which has a JORC Resource of 4.94 million tonnes at 1.6 per […]