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Gold Road Resources Readies for Big Exploration Advance

THE INSIDE STORY: Seasoned market watchers would be aware of the 50:50 Gruyere Joint Venture (GJV) deal, Gold Road Resources (ASX: GOR) struck in 2016 with international gold producer Gold Fields Ltd. They would also know Gruyere as a 3.5 million ounce project forecast for average annualised production of 270,000 ounces of gold for 13 […]

St George upbeat about Mt Alexander Dragon

THE INSIDE STORY: There are three items that exploration companies like to tick off when they announce a new resource-grade discovery, infrastructure and sound economics. By Ron Berryman. These three factors have provided the impetus for St George Mining (ASX: SGQ) following the acquisition of two key tenements from BHP Nickel West in 2016. The […]

Aruma Resources Rebuilds on Slate Dam Potential

THE INSIDE STORY: The Invincible gold deposit, being mined by Goldfields at its St Ives operation, set a new discovery benchmark for gold explorers in the Western Australia goldfields. The possible discovery of such a deposit has reinvigorated industry stalwart Peter Schwann, managing director of Western Australia-focused gold explorer Aruma Resources (ASX: AAJ). The Invincible […]

Alliance Resources Fervently Exploring Zealous

THE INSIDE STORY: Alliance Resources (ASX: AGS) is manager of the Wilcherry project Joint Venture, located in the mineral rich Gawler Craton of South Australia with Tyranna Resources (ASX: TYX). Alliance (51%) and Tyranna (49%) struck the Wilcherry JV in 2016, when the latter wanted to concentrate on its Jumbuck project, but did not want […]

Musgrave Minerals Lines-up New Cue Resource

THE INSIDE STORY: Methodology may not be recognised as a science, however, Musgrave Minerals (ASX: MGV) is putting it to effective use at the Cue project, located in the Murchison Province of Western Australia. Musgrave Minerals is working towards an 80 per cent interest in the Cue project, from its current sixty per cent, as […]

Australian Potash Making Rapid Advancement at Lake Wells

THE INSIDE STORY: Australian Potash (ASX: APC) completed a Scoping Study on the company’s Lake Wells potash project, located approximately 500 kilometres northeast of Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia’s Eastern Goldfields earlier this year. The Lake Wells potash project consists of a 2000 square kilometre tenement package made up of 100 per cent-owned granted exploration licences, […]

Middle Island Resources Annexes Strategic Gold Project

THE INSIDE STORY: Middle Island Resources (ASX: MDI) clearly signalled its intentions with a recent land acquisition and an outstanding gold intercept. Middle Island Resources consolidated its grip on the 100 per cent-owned Sandstone gold operation, located between Mt Magnet and Leinster in the East Murchison Mineral Field of Western Australia with the strategic pick-up […]

Arafura Improves Nolans Process Design Following Project Review

THE INSIDE STORY: Arafura Resources (ASX: ARU) was recently awarded Major Project Facilitation (MPF) status with the Australian Government in recognition of the company’s 100 per cent-owned Nolans rare earths project in the Northern Territory.  The Government offers a free MPF service to eligible projects to acknowledge the potential, government approval processes have, to add […]

Impact Minerals well-funded to expand Commonwealth Gold Project

THE INSIDE STORY: Impact Minerals has managed to achieve what any number of ASX-listed companies would have been very happy to emulate in the past 12 months. By Mark Mentiplay That has been to maintain positive momentum throughout the recent downturn, which is directly attributable to the company’s willingness to get out and do what […]

World-class Resource wakes slumbering sector

THE INSIDE STORY: The Australian investment community finally took note of how impressive the Teena zinc deposit of Rox Resources (ASX: RXL) actually is. All it took to shake everybody up was the release of a world-class Mineral Resource for Teena, placing it on par with the world’s largest zinc deposits. Utilising a six per […]