Matt Birney

Meeka Metals has continued its run of solid hits at its Murchison gold project including a 4m intercept returning high-grade results of more than two ounces to the tonne at the company’s St Anne’s prospect. The 4m section recorded an outstanding 87.5 grams per tonne from 172m and was intercepted 100m below gold oxide results that Meeka reported in August this year.

Okapi Resources could soon fire up the diamond drill rig and launch a 40-hole, 5000m program at its Newnham Lake and Perch uranium projects in Canada after lodging applications with the Government of Saskatchewan. The looming probe follows a recent exploration drive that unveiled a bevy of compelling targets prospective for deeper lying mineralisation.

Infinity Mining has kicked off its maiden drill campaign in search of lithium at the company’s Tambourah South project in the Pilbara region of WA after positive results from rock chip sampling at the site. The 2500m RC drill program has been designed to test the largest lithium-bearing pegmatites at the project where the depth and width of the structures will be targeted.

Zuleika Gold shares popped more than 16 per cent after the WA Supreme Court found in its favour in litigation the company took against fellow explorer Vango Mining and a subsidiary over a farm-in joint venture at a northern Goldfields tenement. Zuleika declared it had been “wholly successful” and flagged an imminent claim for damages.

Lithium Australia has grown its Envirostream battery recycling feed sources through new partnerships with LG and Battery World. With permits and feed stock being key barriers to entry Lithium Australia has set itself up for an entrenched and fully permitted position in the fast growing industry sector. Its Envirostream battery recycling plant has a 99-year Victorian EPA permit.

The wait is finally over for Lindian Resources as its maiden exploration campaign at the company’s Kangankunde rare earths project in Malawi kicks off marking the first drilling program at the site this century. The explorer has begun phase 1 of its 12,500m resource definition drilling program including 10,000m of RC drilling and a further 2500m of diamond drilling to test mineralisation to a depth of 300m. The 44-hole campaign will include two RC rigs and one diamond drill rig with first assays expected within six to eight weeks.

Podium Minerals has doubled the size of its five-element platinum group metals mineral resource at the company’s flagship Parks Reef project after the completion of a successful drilling campaign. The explorer recently received the final assays from stage 10 drilling at the Mid West site that has led to an upgraded mineral resource estimate of 143 million tonnes at 1.3 grams per tonne for a total of six million ounces of 5E PGM.

TSX-listed Novo Resources says recent results at its Becher and Nunyerry North prospects highlight the potential for its Egina project in the Pilbara to become a standalone gold production hub. The company has completed more than half of its 30,000m air-core campaign and has highlighted the district as a priority for RC drilling after scoring shallow gold hits along an area it has interpreted to extend to De Grey Mining’s extraordinary nine-million-ounce Hemi gold discovery.

Image Resources has posted another successful quarter of operations at its Boonanarring mineral sands project just 80km north of Perth in WA, despite rising inflation and a tight labour market. The company generated $39 million in revenue and ended the financial quarter with a net cash position of $53.2 million up from $47.9 million last quarter.