Matt Birney

The Blackham Resources train continues to gather steam as the company hurtles towards production in Wiluna, possibly as soon as the middle of this year. Blackham recently announced an upgrade to their existing resources at the Galaxy and Golden Age deposits at the Matilda Gold project with the addition of another 40 000 ounces of gold.

The Federal Government’s “Research and Development Incentive” grant has re-filled the coffers of ASX listed medical device company Analytica to the tune of $1.9m. The company has developed its much heralded “Pericoach” medical device to assist women to either treat, or in some cases completely cure urinary incontinence.

Perth based owner of the worlds largest flake graphite deposit, Triton Minerals is looking forward to a solid 6 months of news flow as they aim to complete their DFS on the Balama North project by mid year and produce a maiden graphite resource for the Ancuabe project sometime this quarter. Both projects are in Mozambique.

Aggressive ASX listed ATM machine operator Stargroup has booked its 8th record quarter on the back of a 50% jump in ATM machine revenues. The company also expects to finish this quarter with its 9th record quarter in a row, as the full impact of their recent acquisition of rival ATM machine operator Cash Plus Australia kicks in.

In the famed Middle Cauca gold belt in Colombia, finding only a million ounces of gold wouldn’t be enough to even contemplate getting out of bed for each day. Perth based mining minnow Blina Minerals with a share price of just .1c has just secured a 63 HA exploration block exquisitely wedged between scores of multi-million ounce deposits in the region.

After receiving an intriguing set of numbers from its maiden drill campaign, Terrain Minerals have given effect to a very favourable deal that allows them to take control of the Rembrandt Gold Project near Menzies in WA for just $1. Recent drill results include 1m @ 80.4 g/t, 1m @ 20 g/t and 1m @ 18.85 g/t.

Legend Mining’s strategy to identify another Nova-Bollinger style nickel deposit in the Fraser Range has passed its first hurdle with the discovery of multiple bedrock conductors at the company’s Rockford project. The Nova-Bollinger discovery, which also lies within the Fraser Range is situated on a similar tenor gravity ridge and the two projects are only about 120km apart.

Blackham Resources dream of restarting the old Wiluna Gold Mine looks to be real as the company yesterday drew down on a $7m debt facility from Orion Mine Finance to prepare for production. Importantly, the old mothballed Wiluna Gold plant already has a 1.3Mtpa plant, a gas power station, borefields and a 350 person accommodation village all of which will no doubt put the project on the fast track to production.

ASX listed ATM machine operator Stargroup, has officially doubled in size after completing a quality acquisition of a competitor’s 104 machine ATM network. The company says its annual revenues will more than double as a result of the acquisition from $2.4m to $5m and its annual transactions will move from around 1 million per year to 2 million per year. Importantly, Stargroup says it will now be cash flow positive as a result of the marriage with Cash Plus Australia Pty Ltd.