Aurumin Limited (ASX: AUN) has completed drilling at its 100 per cent owned Central Sandstone Project, located 520 kilometres northeast of Perth. The project is part of Aurumin's Sandstone Operations, which also include the Birrigrin and Johnson Range Projects, boasting a total resource of 946koz Au. The drilling campaign, conducted with Reverse Circulation (RC) methods, comprised 38 holes and 3888 metres drilled. The primary objectives of the drilling were to test seven new open pit targets and to investigate extensions at two existing open pit resources. The drilling targeted multiple depositional models and styles, including porphyry/intrusive hosted vein style, banded…
Intra Energy Corporation Limited (IEC), an environmentally responsible mining and energy group, has announced compelling lithium, tantalum, niobium, caesium, and tin assays from rock chip sampling at the Maggie Hays Hill (MHH) project. These results significantly enhance the project's lithium prospectivity and validate IEC's exploration strategy. The latest round of sampling, conducted over the most prospective section of outcropping pegmatites, revealed averaged lithium assays of 503 ppm, indicating the presence of lithium-rich pegmatites. Additionally, encouraging caesium and tantalum values, with average assays of 139 ppm and 107 ppm respectively, suggest the potential for multiple mineralisation targets. These findings, along with…
Aurumin Limited (ASX: AUN) has initiated a significant drilling campaign at its Central Sandstone Project in Western Australia. This project, which is wholly owned by Aurumin, represents a crucial step forward in the exploration and development of its Sandstone Operations. The Central Sandstone Project is located 520 kilometres northeast of Perth and boasts an impressive 881,000 ounces of gold (Au), contributing to the company's total resource of 946,000 ounces of gold across its Sandstone Operations, which also include the Birrigrin and Johnson Range projects. The ambitious drilling program aims to test up to nine new open pit targets, with plans to…
Gold Road Resources Limited (ASX: GOR), a gold production and exploration company, has issued a production update in response to significant rainfall affecting operations at the Gruyere gold mine — located in Western Australia's north-eastern Goldfields. The Gruyere gold mine is a joint venture (JV) between Gold Road Resources and Gold Fields (JSE: GFI), with each holding a 50 per cent interest. Gold Fields manages and operates the mine, while Gold Road Resources maintains a significant investment portfolio. Following substantial and prolonged rainfall in early March, the region experienced further significant and atypical rainfall in the second half of the…
Litchfield Minerals Limited (ASX: LMS), a critical mineral explorer, has discovered new copper-tungsten targets at its Wolfram Hill Prospect within the Mount Doreen Exploration Licence (EL 31305) in the Northern Territory. This discovery, resulting from comprehensive Induced Polarisation (IP) surveys conducted in March 2024, marks a major milestone in the exploration of this site. The recent IP survey has identified two large and highly promising chargeability targets located to the north and south of the existing mineralised zones. These findings suggest the potential for substantial extensions of the known mineralised reef at depth and along the strike to both the…
Intra Energy Corporation Limited (ASX: IEC) has announced the discovery of significant lithium anomalies at its Maggie Hays Hill (MHH) project in Western Australia's Lake Johnston Greenstone Belt. This discovery places the company at the forefront of lithium exploration, with the potential to impact the global lithium supply chain. A recent soil sampling program revealed two major lithium anomalies, with the primary anomaly stretching over 2,500 metres in length and 300 metres in width. The secondary anomaly measures 1,300 metres by 300 metres. These anomalies are notable for their high lithium values, reaching up to 248ppm Li2O, and are associated with tantalum and caesium, elements indicative of highly prospective…
Ora Gold Limited (ASX: OAU) has announced promising initial assay results from its 2024 RC drilling program at the Crown Prince Prospect within the Garden Gully Gold Project in Western Australia. The results, particularly from the Southeastern Zone (SEZ), highlight significant high-grade gold mineralisation, marking a significant step forward in the exploration of this key growth area. The drilling campaign, initiated in early February 2024, has yielded encouraging results, including an exceptional intercept from drill hole OGGRC662 — 15 metres at 9.91g/t Au from 88 metres, with a higher-grade section of two metres at 54.17g/t Au from 100 metres. Other…
BHP Billiton plc (BHP) has entered into an agreement with Canadian based mining company Guyana Goldfields Inc. (Guyana) to acquire a 6.1 per cent interest in SolGold Plc (SolGold), the majority owner and operator of the Cascabel porphyry copper-gold project in Ecuador. SolGold is a copper-gold exploration company with objectives to discover and define world‐class copper‐gold deposits in Ecuador. They hold the largest exploration team and the most active exploration programme across the country. Cascabel is SolGold’s flagship project and is one of the most advanced resources project in Northern Ecuador. Under the terms of the new agreement, BHP will…
A South Australian mining company’s plans for the largest base metal mine in Algeria is now one step closer to construction, following the completion of a revised Definitive Feasibility Study. Located near the Algerian city of Bejaia, the Tala Hamza Zinc Project is expected to produce an average of 129,300 tonnes per annum of zinc concentrate at 54 per cent zinc (90 per cent recovery) and 26,000 tonnes per annum of lead concentrate at 63 per cent lead (73 per cent recovery) over 21 years. A processing plant with a 1.3 million tonne per annum capacity will also be built…
A contract for a feasibility study into the first-ever high-voltage direct current (HVDC) offshore wind substation in China has been announced. China has committed heavily to developing its offshore wind power generating capacity. It currently plans to have 5 GW of offshore wind power installed by 2020 and in 2017 alone it installed almost 1.2 GW of offshore wind capacity. This brought the cumulative total installed capacity to nearly 2.8 GW, third globally behind the United Kingdom and Germany. However, the country is now faced by the challenge that all the promising wind farm sites within 10 km of the…
Australian gold-focused exploration company, Cardinal Resources Limited has finalised documentation which allows the company to enter into a transaction for US$25million ($AU32 million) with Canadian based Sprott Private Resource Lending to provide a credit facility. The facility will provide working capital and funding to complete the Preliminary and Definitive Feasibility Studies for the Namdini Gold Project, which is located approximately 50km south-east of the regional town of Bolgatanga in Northern Ghana. The project lies within the Nangodi Greenstone Belt, one of a series of granite-greenstone belts within the area which host significant gold mineralisation in Ghana and Burkina Faso. “We…
Australian mineral exploration company, Tyranna Resources Limited has acquired private company US Cobalt Pty Ltd, who owns the Goodsprings Cobalt and Base Metals Project, in Nevada, USA. US Cobalt's Goodsprings Cobalt and Base Metals Project consists of 329 mining claims covering 6,580 acres located within the Goodsprings mining district in southern Nevada. In March this year, Tyranna entered into a binding option agreement to acquire US Cobalt, as part of the company's diversification strategy to capitalise on the battery minerals revolution. Tyranna’s Managing Director, Bruno Seneque said the acquisition was an ‘outstanding deal’ for Tyranna and their shareholders. “Historical mining results…
Rio Tinto recently opened a fourth diamond pipe, known as the A21, at the Diavik Diamond Mine in Canada. The pipe is located adjacent to Diavik’s existing mining operations at Lac de Gras (a notable Lake in Canada that was the centre of the diamond rush of the 1990s). The new open-pit pipe will provide an important source of incremental supply over the next four years, assisting with sustaining production levels at the mine. First ore was delivered in March and the pit is expected to be at full production during the fourth quarter of 2018, following a four-year construction period…
Argosy Minerals Limited has successfully produced battery-grade life-cycle engineering (LCE) product from the Stage 1 Plant at the Rincon Lithium Project in the Salta Province of Argentina. [caption id="attachment_11937" align="alignleft" width="281"] Image courtesy of Argosy Minerals Limited.[/caption] The Australian owned company said that following the recent plant works at the site, approximately 30kg of LCE product was produced. The product was tested in-house and the results indicated that the product is a lithium carbonate content value of 99.6 per cent. “We are delighted at this significant milestone – to achieve such a result from our Stage 1,500tpa capacity plant is…
