James Pearson

Latitude 66 says it has unearthed high-grade gold and copper mineralisation at its Visna and Petaja prospects in northern Finland and has also worked up multiple new exploration targets before wrapping up a successful summer fieldwork program at its Peräpohja Schist Belt (PSB) project. The company is now planning further mapping at Visna before the exploration season closes down for winter.

ASX-listed Radiopharm Theranostics has joined forces with a renowned global radiopharmaceutical manufacturer to produce its cancer-fighting treatment that targets commonly over-expressed protein in human tumours. The company’s agreement with Canadian-based AtomVie Global Radiopharma has been cemented via Radiopharm Ventures – a joint venture it shares with the highly-regarded MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Texas in the United States.

Aurum Resources is on the cusp of becoming a bigger shark in the West African gold pond after circling fellow ASX-listed Mako Gold with an all-scrip bid at a whopping 112 per cent above the market price. Mako’s share price surged nearly 80 per cent on the back of the news that would create a major African gold explorer with cash reserves of AU$20 million.

Carnaby Resources has identified its undrilled San Quentin prospect as a new copper target, with rock-chip grades going up to 6.7 per cent at the Greater Duchess project it shares with Latitude 66 in Queensland. Sitting 2km to the south-east of the JV’s Nil Desperandum copper discovery near Mount Isa, management says San Quentin is showing 800m of outcropping mineralisation.

Global metals-trading giant Glencore has cast its eye across Estrella Resources’ manganese ground in Timor-Leste, where the latter has unveiled high-grade rock-chip assays hitting up to 57 per cent manganese at its Sica and Lalena prospects in the nation’s Lautém Municipality. The results, which highlight the high-grade nature of manganese mineralisation in the largely untapped region, have marked a major step forward for Estrella’s exploration.

Suvo Strategic Minerals has turned nickel slag, the highly-polluting waste product of nickel pig iron production, into a high-strength, low-cost and low-carbon cement. Confirming positive laboratory testing that could revolutionise the centuries-old cement industry, the company says its recent trials in collaboration with Makassar State University in Indonesia achieved a compressive strength of 37.5 megapascals (MPa) after just seven days.

Strickland Metals has landed a massive 545.7m drill hit grading 1.1 grams per tonne gold equivalent to create a northern resource extension of the Shanac deposit within its Rogozna gold and base metals project in Serbia. The intersection came from one of three recently-finished holes at site. Starting at 108m, it also included higher-grade sections of 102m at 1.7g/t and 30m at 2.4g/t.

Larvotto Resources is set to fast-track the development of its Hillgrove gold-antimony mine in NSW after appointing a manager to crunch the numbers for a definitive feasibility study by early next year, in a bid to start production in late 2025. MACA Interquip Mintrex will look after the metallurgical testing and necessary plant design modifications to optimise the 500,000 tonnes per annum processing plant.

Radiopharm Theranostics has moved closer to securing investigational new drug approval for a cancer-fighting radio-antibody after manufacturing the first batch of its “BetaBart” radiotherapeutic agent.