Matt Birney

Sipa Resources systematic approach to their Akelikongo nickel-copper prospect in Uganda appears to be paying off with the discovery of a very encouraging 10m intersection grading 1% Nickel and another 4m intersection grading 1.8% Copper. With Cobalt fetching up to 3 times the price of Nickel, the company was also encouraged to see reasonable Cobalt numbers in the results.

Mid way through their Great Western project Scoping Study, Terrain Minerals have made the call to upgrade their project analysis to pre-feasibility quality. The current resource at Great Western, which is still open down plunge and along strike, sits at 322,500 tonnes @ 5.14 grams per tonne gold. The company is designing a 700m drill program to upgrade the resource to Indicated status. 

Recently listed Perth shark deterrent and detection company Shark Mitigation Systems is now officially punching above its weight as an ASX junior after world surfing legend Taj Burrow agreed to lend his name to the brand as its world wide Ambassador. Burrow will draw global attention to the company's unique, scientifically inspired wetsuits and other products designed to deter shark attacks. 

The dominos are starting to fall for ASX listed Medical Cannabis upstart MGC Pharma, with its third regulatory approval in 3 months being granted. The company will now have the right to market its unique medical cannabis based cosmetic line known as “MGC Derma” into the $1.9b a year Canadian market after the Canadian regulatory authority, Health Canada approved the product.

MGC Pharma have broken into the $11b American skin care market after achieving US Food and Drug Administration approval for their “MGC Derma” cosmetics line manufactured from medical cannabis. They recently secured the notoriously hard to get FDA approval giving them the right to market their products into all US states and they have already secured a 1.2m Euro order. 

Sipa Resources’ share price jumped 20% last week on the back of what looks to be a successful drilling campaign at the Akelikongo nickel/copper Project in Uganda. The market is eagerly awaiting the results of the latest drilling campaign after the company announced last week they had hit significant mineralization in 10 out of 12 holes with all results currently pending.

Red Mountain Mining will now significantly ramp up their Batangas Gold project in the Philippines following the formalising of their joint venture agreement this week with UK based Bluebird Merchant Ventures. Red Mountain management negotiated a sublime deal with Bluebird that values the Batangas project at 3 times the entire company's market cap. 

Blackham Resources have been furiously bolstering their gold resources at the Matilda Gold project in Wiluna on the eve of production which now looks imminent following the granting of a number of key approvals. In an extraordinarily good deal Blackham just paid $1.5m for a calcine tailings stockpile that has around $100m worth of gold in it - and Jorc compliant too. 

ASX listed Alterra are on the hunt for dairy land in WA suitable for a new style of dairy farming known as System 5. System 5 works on the theory that if cows are made comfortable and not exposed to extreme heat and cold and not made to walk many kilometres a day to be milked or get feed, then they will produce up to 50% more milk.